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Reddit mentions of Voice of the Whirlwind
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| Height | 9 Inches |
| Length | 6 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | July 2007 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Width | 0.8 Inches |
Walter Jon Williams is quite an underrated author, IMO.
I love Voice Of The Whirlwind, which is kinda William Gibson, but in some ways (not all) better IMO.
Metropolitan has a very original setting - Williams says that it's not really sci-fi, but then it's not really fantasy, either. It's just a totally awesome piece of imagining, and a good story and characters to boot.
Angel Station is a first-contact tale and I really like the way he has created an alien life that is properly alien and different to us. Not only that but he spends time exploring that difference - it's not just an aside amongst many other aliens seen in passing, but it's important to the interaction with the humans and to the story.
What's great about Williams' work is that its really diverse, so if you don't like these books, you may very well like some of his other stuff - don't let a bad experience put you off him. I really want the guy to break out and be really successful.
Walter Jon Williams has an interesting take on this, in his novel Voice Of The Whirlwind
In the future, a brutal war between rival space-faring corporations is ended by the arrival of The Powers, an alien species with advanced technology to trade. The corps engage in covert ops, industrial espionage and assassination in order to gain advantage with The Powers, and access to their technology. The Powers, in turn, play one corp against the other for their own reasons...
The cover of Walter Jon Williams' Voice of the Whirlwind kept me from reading it for far too long.