Tad Williams

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Tad Williams during a signing in Cologne, Germany in October 2004.

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born March 14, 1957) is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers.

Williams is currently writing the Shadowmarch series, the first volume of which was published in November of 2004. The second volume, Shadowplay, was published in March 2007.

In July 2006, Williams started publishing a new six issue comic mini-series called The Next through DC Comics. A second series for DC Comics called The Factory is currently in planning stages. In addition, Tad has announced in October 2006 that he will also be writing Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis for DC Comics starting with #50 in March 2007.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 External links

[edit] Biography

Tad Williams has held many jobs -- singing in a band, selling shoes, managing a financial institution, throwing newspapers, and designing military manuals, to name just a few.

He also hosted a syndicated radio show for ten years, worked in theater and television production, taught both grade-school and college classes, and worked in multimedia for a major computer firm. He is cofounder of an interactive television company, and is currently writing comic books and film and television scripts as well as novels. Tad, his wife Deborah Beale and their two children live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

Book 1 - The Dragonbone Chair (Hardcover 1988, Paperback 1989)
Book 2 - Stone of Farewell (Hardcover 1990, Paperback 1991)
Book 3 - To Green Angel Tower (Hardcover 1993)
- Book 3 was split into 2 parts for paperback publication (1994):
  - To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 and To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (US Edition)
  - To Green Angel Tower: Siege and To Green Angel Tower: Storm (UK edition)

[edit] Otherland

Book 1 - City of Golden Shadow (Hardcover 1996, Paperback 1998)
Book 2 - River of Blue Fire (Hardcover 1998, Paperback 1999)
Book 3 - Mountain of Black Glass (Hardcover 1999, Paperback 2000)
Book 4 - Sea of Silver Light (Hardcover 2001, Paperback 2002)

[edit] Shadowmarch

Book 1 - Shadowmarch (Hardcover 2004, Trade Paperback 2005, Mass-Market Paperback 2006)
Book 2 - Shadowplay (Hardcover, March 2007)
Book 3 - Shadowrise (formerly announced as Shadowfall; Hardcover, forthcoming). Please keep in mind that this is only a working title, which might well be changed before publication.

[edit] Standalone Novels

Tailchaser's Song (Hardcover 1985, Paperback 1986)
Child of an Ancient City (Paperback 1992, written with Nina Kiriki Hoffman)
Caliban's Hour (Hardcover 1994)
The War of the Flowers (Hardcover 2003, Paperback 2004)

[edit] Collections

Rite: Short Work (Harcover, 2006) Subterranean Press. Published in January 2007.

[edit] Comic Books

Tad Williams' Mirrorworld 2 issues. Series was cancelled after two issues because the publisher went out of business.
The Next 6 issue mini-series published by DC Comics. Published between July and December 2006.
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis published by DC Comics. Williams has been announced to replace writer Kurt Busiek with issue #50 in March of 2007.
The Helmet of Fate; Ibis the Invincible, 2007 one-shot for DC.