Author Info: Walter Jon Williams (Patreon)

Walter Jon Williams is an award-winning author who has been listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times and the Times of London. He is the author of twenty-seven novels and three collections of short fiction.

His first novel to attract serious public attention was Hardwired (1986), described by Roger Zelazny as "a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe-light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars." In 2001 he won a Nebula Award for his novelette, “Daddy’s World,” and won again in 2005 for “The Green Leopard Plague.”

"Occurrence at Rahul's Canteen" is an excerpt from Fleet Elements, the latest in his popular Praxis series of far-future novels.  Fleet Elements will be published in December by HarperCollins.