History Creator / WalterJonWilliams

* ''Literature/{{Hardwired}}'' series

* ''Literature/{{Hardwired}}'' series

* The ''Literature/{{Hardwired}}'' series
** ''Hardwired'' (1986)
** ''Solip:System'' (1989)
** ''Voice of the Whirlwind'' (1987)

* The ''Hardwired'' series

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: ''Hardwired'' plays a variation of this trope; a person who replaces too much of their brain-matter with implants becomes "white-brained", detached from the world and other people, obsessed with mathematical abstractions, and losing much of their emotions in the process. However, it only happens to those who are inclined towards abstract thinking to begin with - those who use their cybernetic implants to interact with physical objects like vehicles, and expand their abilities in the realms of physical talent like martial arts rarely suffer from these effects.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: ''Hardwired'' has a heavily balkanized territory formerly known as the USA, in which Hovertank jockeys make a fortune flying contraband across fortified state borders.

* KissOfDeath: ''Hardwired'' features "The Weasel", a mechanical weapon that shoots out of your mouth.

* NotQuiteDead: In ''Hardwired'', one character, Reno, is killed when his home is the target of a missile attack. He later makes a series of telephone calls to the hero. Turns out that he was a wirehead and was "jacked into the net" when the missiles struck. He spends pretty much the rest of the book as a disembodied mind, wandering around the equivalent of the Internet, looking at everyone's most secret files.

* WhiteCollarCrime: ''Hardwired'' is rife with this. It's pretty violent, though; one episode of corporate sabotage involves murdering an executive to get access to the company's intranet.

* ''Implied Spaces'' (2008)

* CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul: ''Hardwired'' plays a variation of this trope; a person who replaces too much of their brain-matter with implants becomes "white-brained", detached from the world and other people, obsessed with mathematical abstractions, and losing much of their emotions in the process. However, it only happens to those who are inclined towards abstract thinking to begin with - those who use their cybernetic implants to interact with physical objects like vehicles, and expand their abilities in the realms of physical talent like martial arts rarely suffer from these effects.

Walter Jon Williams (born 1953) is an American ScienceFiction writer, generally known for ''not'' having a signature-style. He has written everything from {{Cyberpunk}} (and PostCyberpunk) to Comedy of Manners; from SpaceOpera to PoliceProcedural. All available evidence suggests that Williams does not like being pigeonholed. (His fondness for games has caused some to try to pigeonhole him as a gamer, but a survey of his work will reveal that this is an incomplete description at best.)

* GenderBender: In ''Hardwired'', the rich elite often transfer their consciousness to a younger body to extend their lives. The book introduces one who used to be an elderly man but got himself transferred to a young, female body to live his sexual fantasies of submission and vulnerability. S/He gets what s/he asked for and more when [[spoiler:Sarah, one of the protagonists seduces, and then murders him/her.]]

* InformationWantsToBeFree: The short-story, "The Green Leopard Plague" [[http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0406/greenleopards.shtml (available here)]], features this regarding hunger; [[FramingDevice the main character uncovers the history]] of how the invention of photosynthesis in humans to combat hunger was suppressed by regimes who used it as a weapon.
* KillerGameMaster: ''This Is Not a Game'' characterizes each of four friends by their habits when acting as [=DMs=]. The most antisocial one has every NPC betray the players, and often sets them up to betray each other. The main character eventually realizes that [[spoiler:he expects everyone to betray everyone else in real life as well, and hence betrays them first]].

* PatchWorkMap: ''Implied Spaces'' takes place in a world where technology is advanced enough that every rich kid can design his own little world. Most of them try for patchwork maps. The main character is a scholar studying what happens on the borders between the patches, when the physical realities of these constructed worlds start to act. These borders are the "implied spaces".

* CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul: ''Hardwired'' plays a variation of this trope; a person who replaces too much of their brain-matter with implants becomes "white-brained", detached from the world and other people, obsessed with mathematical abstractions, and losing much of their emotions in the process. However, it only happens to those who are inclined towards abstract thinking to begin with - those who use their cybernetic implants to intereact with physical objects like vehicles, and expand their abilities in the realms of physical talent like martial arts rarely suffer from these effects.