Episode 465: Ten Minutes with Walter Jon Williams

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

Nebula winner and recent Worldcon Guest of Honor Walter Jon Williams talks with Gary about hiding from COVID and the sun in rural New Mexico, a rare science fiction novel that deals with elder care, the appeal of E.R. Eddison and other pre-Tolkien fantasies, the hardboiled fiction of David Goodis, researching on Wikipedia, and the next book in his Praxis space opera series.

Books mentioned include:

• Quillifer the Knight by Walter Jon Williams


• The Accidental War by Walter Jon Williams


• Fleet Elements by Walter Jon Williams


• Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax


• Mistress of Mistresses by E.R. Eddison


• Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s by David Goodis