'Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities'--Jacket.

By day Dagmar Shaw orchestrates vast games with millions of players spanning continents. By night, she tries to forget the sound of a city collapsing in flames around her. She tries to forget the faces of her friends as they died in front of her. She tries to forget the blood on her own hands.

But then an old friend approaches Dagmar with a project. The project he pitches is so insane and so ambitious, she can't possibly say no. But this new venture will lead her from the world of alternate-reality gaming to one even more complex. A world in which the players are soldiers and spies and the name of the game is survival.

Recounts the demise of the 'unsinkable' Titanic, the massive luxury liner that housed such extravagances as a French 'sidewalk cafe' and a grand staircase, but failed to provide enough lifeboats for the passengers on board.

Recounts the demise of the 'unsinkable' Titanic, the massive luxury liner that housed such extravagances as a French 'sidewalk cafe' and a grand staircase, but failed to provide enough lifeboats for the passengers on board.

'In this provocative, entertaining collection... Williams brings together tales of the Collage of Mystery as well as other explorations of the gray region where psyche and technology meet... Coupled with extensive notes from the author, these storiew invite readers to share and enjoy William's extensive knowledge of history, psychology, and culture.'---Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'Possessed of a venomous, mechanical grace... notorious for a reason.'---Elizabeth Bear, author of Hammered and All the Windwracked Stars

'Williams understands that science fiction can breathe life into language.... [His] writing is always lean, lively and engaging.'---The New York Times Book Review

'Despite his manifest cyberpunk leanings, Williams has an imagination all his own-along with a supple, subtle technique and a polished, lucid prose style.'---Kirkus Reviews

'Fans of high-tech SF will enjoy Williams's sizzling prose...'---Library Journal

A mermaid delves into the dark underpinnings of her Utopian society; a dying boy finds himself trapped in a virtual world beyond his wildest imagining; Friedrich Nietzsche meets Wyatt Earp on the dusty streets of Tombstone, Arizona; a gorilla strives to remain relevant among the info-streams and easily distracted eyeballs of a shallow, media-addled culture; a civilization raises its young as computer programs, deleting problematic children at will...

Few authors have matched the versatility and stylishness of Walter Jon Williams His genre-defining novels have received wide critical acclaim and captured the rapt attention of fans worldwide. He has been nominated for every major SF award. The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories contains nine bleeding-edge tales showcasing Williams' flexibility, power-chord storytelling, and engagingly human and post-human characters.

From Walter Jon Williams, author of more than twenty novels, including This Is Not a Game, Implied Spaces, and the definitive cyberpunk novel Hardwired, comes The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories, a stunning collection of short fiction including the Nebula Award-winning stories 'Daddy's World' and 'The Green Leopard Plague,' and featuring an introduction by Charles Stross, plus in-depth story notes.

Aristide, swordsman and semi-retired computer scientist, uncovers a cult's plot to destroy civilization while exploring Midgarth, a primitive pocket universe created by superhuman machines that now control humanity and Earth.

Once upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at games...

Dagmar is a game designer trapped in Jakarta in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around her and she needs to get out.


Her boss Charlie has his own problems -- 4.3 billion of them, to be precise, hidden in an off-shore account.


Austin is the businessman -- the VC. He's the one with the plan and the one to keep the geeks in line.


BJ was there from the start, but while Charlie's star rose, BJ sank into the depths of customer service. He pads his hours at the call-center slaying on-line orcs, stealing your loot, and selling it on the internet.

But when one of them is gunned down in a parking lot, the survivors become players in a very different kind of game. Caught between the dangerous worlds of the Russian Mafia and international finance, Dagmar must draw on all her resources -- not least millions of online gamers-- to track down the killer. In this near-future thriller, Walter Jon Williams weaves a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue, murder, and games where you don't get an extra life.

Where Were You When??

Few phrases garner as much attention as 'We Interrupt This Broadcast?' Wherever we may happen to be, our lives stop for a moment, and we experience those few seconds of anxiety between the interruption and the actual announcement of what has happened.

In words and images, We Interrupt This Broadcast brings to life the famous and infamous moments that were announced to us with those four chilling words.

This 10th Anniversary Edition features 3 audio CDs with actual broadcasts and includes a new afterword from NBC's Brian Williams.

From the dawn of electronic media to today, from the catastrophe of the Hindenburg to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, these are the forty-three events that stopped us in our tracks and changed our world.

We Interrupt This Broadcast recounts the details of the events and spotlights the photographs that tell the stories. Accompanying the book are two digitally mastered compact discs containing over two hours of audio from the events, narrated by award-winning journalist Bill Kurtis.

These heart-stopping moments include both the famous words you remember and rare audio footage that will take you back into the magnitude of the event. Share with your friends, family, children and grandchildren your memories of where you were when the world stopped and held its breath in anticipation.

PRAISE FOR WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST:

'News junkies can go in for the good stuff with this book and CD set?an impressive tome of rare photos and historical accounts.?'
Time Out New York

'?the ability of the electronic media to capture history couldn't be more powerful-or chilling.'
Biography magazine

'Altogether, the book and CDs are a keeper, offering both valuable history lessons and a dramatic record of the definitive moments for generations of Americans.'
Publishers Weekly

'The CDs deliver an exciting, engaging exercise. The events are all hugely memorable. The bits of historic sound are powerfully evocative.'
Baltimore Sun

'Garner has done a masterful job of collecting these moments, and with the accompanying CDs, one can listen over and over to the moments that shaped this century.'
Booklist

Essential for EVERY library?home and public
This is the latest in this series of books with CDs produced by Joe Garner for Sourcebooks. For the last 10 years updated versions were published, as enough news events occurred to warrant a new edition. We are now up to THREE CDs of material, carrying us to 2007 with the horrific massacre at Virginia Tech University. While most of the events captured here?starting in 1937 with the explosion and crash of the Hindenburg?are tragedies, there are a few glimmers of hope, usually involving the space program in the 1960s and 1970s.

In fact, the only other upbeat story included is the end of World War II (and the fact that there even was a war is not very upbeat.). But as philosopher George Santayana said (and has often been repeated with minor changes: 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'. And that is reason enough to get this book, play the CDs, look at the photos and, if you have children, share the experience with them.

The first 2 CDs are the same as prior editions yet it is still worth getting this edition?if you already own the earlier ones, [then] for the third disc. (Then give your older copy to a friend or, better yet, donate to your local library.)
Steve Ramm, 'Anything Phonographic' May 1, 2009
Amazon Review

Williams (economics, George Mason U.) collects some 160 of his weekly newspaper columns from the past few years. He addresses a variety of economic and political issues from a hard-right perspective (although he appears to be fairly unconcerned about social conservative issues such as abortion or gay marriage). The columns are organized into sections concerned with education, the environment and health, government, income, international politics and economics, law and society, economics as an academic discipline, and race. There is also a section titled 'potpourri.' Although it is difficult to briefly summarize his views on the wide rage of subjects tackled, Williams himself describes his bias as being for private property and self-ownership and reveals the uncompromising nature of that stance by describing Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, farm and business and subsidies, and foreign aid as all analogous to slavery because they forcibly use some people (through taxes) to serve the interests of others. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Complete with timeline and glossary, a picture book for young readers provides a collection of poetry that celebrates this uniquely American music and its many colorful players throughout its history.

When Nick and Kia are invited to former Toronto Raptor Jerome 'Junk Yard Dog' Williams' basketball camp in Washington, DC, they quickly discover that this is no ordinary summer hoop camp. This is a basketball boot camp that focuses on discipline and hard work. Jerome and Johnnie's father, 'Sergeant Push-up' to the campers, is the no-nonsense camp director. When scrimmages begin, Nick and Kia fall victim to the antics of their teammate Jamal, a talented but troubled player who tries to win games on his own. Only after some hard lessons-and some tough losses-do the three youngsters learn that it takes everyone on the team to accomplish real success.

For the ninth installment of this best-selling series, Eric Walters has teamed up with retired NBA star Jerome Williams and his brother Johnnie Williams III to write another exciting chapter in the lives of Nick and Kia. Although Boot Camp is fiction, there is a real JYD Basketball Boot Camp in Washington each summer. The Williams' royalties will go to support the JYD Project, which offers a variety of community outreach programs for youth in Canada and the United States.

Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.

It's summertime and hoops season is over, but that doesn't keep Nick and Kia off the court. One very hot day they head to the rec center for a swim but end up on the outdoor courts that are usually dominated by older players. Their enjoyment of the court is short-lived, however, when three teens show up and kick the kids and their ball off the court.

Nick and Kia don't take well to being bullied, but there's nothing they can do about it. At least not until they run into Jerome 'Junk Yard Dog' Williams at a mall promotional event, and Kia enlists the NBA star's help in proving that she and Nick do indeed belong on the same court as the older players.

Eric Walters has teamed up with NBA fan-favorite and former Toronto Raptor and current New York Knick Jerome 'Junk Yard Dog' Williams for the eighth installment of this best-selling basketball series. Jerome's royalties will help support the JYD Project, which is run by his brother, Johnnie Williams. The JYD Project's goal is to reach more than half a million Canadian and American students over a five-year period with their inspirational message.

Triple Threat is the eighth of ten books in the Nick and Kia basketball series.

Book one is Three on Three.

Book two is Full Court Press.

Book three is Hoop Crazy!

Book four is Long Shot.

Book five is Road Trip.

Book six is Off Season.

Book seven is Underdog. Book nine is Boot Camp.
Book ten is Home Team.

Prima della Guerra degli Anni Luce, che ha sconvolto il mondo e ha spazzato via dalla Terra gran parte della popolazione, un famoso ricercatore biotecnologico conduce esperimenti su un misterioso virus, capace di alterare geneticamente le cellule umane e renderle in grado di sintetizzare la luce. Il virus rende le persone in grado di alimentarsi standosene semplicemente ferme sotto la luce del sole, ma la sua diffusione potrebbe portare a sconvolgimenti sociali enormi. Scoppia però la Guerra, e di quell'esperimento si perde ogni traccia. Si sa solamente che lo scienziato è stato ucciso dagli agenti di un oscuro paese dell'ex Unione Sovietica. A secoli di distanza un altro scienziato, il professor Davout, decide di mettersi sulle sue tracce...

Knowing that he is dying of cancer, a young African-American writer struggles to come to terms with life, in a new edition of the acclaimed novel set against the harsh backdrop of segregation and the Civil Rights movement. Reprint.

The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids—a powerful insectoid species themselves subjugated until the recent Shaa demise—plan to fill the vacuum with their own bloody domination, and have already won a shattering victory with superior force and unimaginable cruelty. But two heroes survived the carnage at Magaria: Lord Gareth Martinez and the fiery, mysterious gun pilot Lady Caroline Sula, whose courageous exploits are becoming legend in the new history of galactic civil war. Yet their cunning, skill, and bravery may be no match for the overwhelming enemy descending upon the loyalist stronghold of Zanshaa, as the horrific battle looms that will determine the structure of the universe—and who shall live to inhabit it—for millennia to come.

All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis

For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order . . . and bloody chaos.

A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid -- the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others -- to replace the masters? despotic rule with their own. Barely escaping a swarming surprise attack, Martinez and Caroline Sula, a pilot whose beautiful face conceals a deadly secret, are now the last hope for freedom for every being who ever languished in Shaa chains -- as the interstellar battle begins against a merciless foe whose only perfect truth is annihilation.

This collection of essays by leading Anglican and Roman Catholic historians exemplifies the increasing scholarly interchange out of which a more sophisticated interpretation of the history of centuries of separation is developing - an interpretation that can be a unifying rather than a dividing force in future Anglican-Catholic relations.
In helping to create a sense of common ownership of the past, Anglicanism and the Western Christian Tradition also lays the foundations for a way of remembering which holds no barrier to deepening communion in the present.

The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the New York Times bestselling Star Wars The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemy—from without and within.

In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those who steadfastly refuse to consider surrender—Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and their children and comrades-in-arms—are determined to seize victory against overwhelming odds. And now, finally, there are signs that the tide may be turning in the New Republic's favor.

After capturing crucial Yuuzhan Vong intelligence, Jedi fighter-pilot Jaina Solo prepares to lead a daring surprise strike against an enemy flagship. Meanwhile, Jaina's brother Jacen—liberated from the hands of the enemy and newly schooled in an even greater mastery of the Force by the Jedi Knight Vergere—is eagerly poised to bring his unique skills to bear against the invaders. And on Mon Calamari, the New Republic's provisional capital, the retired, ailing hero Admiral Ackbar has conceived a major tactical plan that could spell the beginning of a swift end for the Yuuzhan Vong.

Yet even as opposing squadrons face off in the depths of space, intrigue runs rampant: in the heated political race for Chief of State . . . in the shadows where Yuuzhan Vong spies plot assassinations . . . and in the inscrutable creature Vergere, a Jedi Knight whose allegiance is impossible to predict. And as Luke Skywalker sets about reestablishing the Jedi Council, the growing faction opposed to the ways of the Force unveil a terrifying weapon designed to annihilate the Yuuzhan Vong species. But in doing so, they may be dooming the New Republic to becoming the very thing it has sworn to fight against—and unleashing the power of the dark side.


From the Hardcover edition.