Tad Williams biography
Tad Williams has held more jobs than any sane person should admit to—singing in a band, selling shoes, managing a financial institution, throwing newspapers, and designing military manuals, to name just a few. He also hosted a syndicated radio show for ten years, worked in theater and television production, taught both grade-school and college classes, and worked in multimedia for a major computer firm. He is cofounder of an interactive television company, and is currently writing comic books and film and television scripts as well as novels.
Tad and his wife, Deborah Beale, live in the San Francisco Bay Area with
their children and far more cats, dogs, turtles, pet ants and banana slugs than
they can count.
"I am deliriously grateful every day that I get to do what I want to do for a living. Whenever the pressures of work and life start to make me cranky, I just remind myself of managing the art store next to the freeway (the owner was Basil Fawlty without Basil's good qualities, i.e. wit)"
Tad Williams books
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
- The Dragonbone Chair - 1988
- Stone of Farewell - 1990
- To Green Angel Tower - 1993
Otherland
- City of Golden Shadow - 1996
- River of Blue Fire - 1998
- Mountain of Black Glass - 1999
- Sea of Silver Light - 2001
Shadowmarch
- Shadowmarch - 2006
- Shadowplay - 2007
- Shadowrise - TBA
Tailchaser's Song - 1985
Latest news: Tad Williams
The Dragons of Ordinary Farm by Tad Williams and Deborah Beale
Synopsis
Tyler and Lucinda have to spend summer with their Uncle Gideon, a farmer. They soon discover that Ordinary Farm is well, no ordinary farm.
The bellowing in the barn comes not from a cow but from a dragon. The thundering herd in the valley? Unicorns. Uncle Gideon’s farmhouse never looks [...]
The Stealer of Souls book review
Elric of Melniboné, the haunted, treacherous and doomed albino sorcerer-prince, is one of the great creations of modern fantasy. An introspective weakling in thrall to his soul-eating sword, Stormbringer, he is yet a hero whose bloody adventures and wanderings lead inexorably to his decisive interv [...]
A Song of Ice and Fire illustrated calendar
Dabel Brothers Publishing is proud to announce the publication of the first ever-illustrated calendar from the epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George RR Martin. A New York Times #1 Bestseller, Martin's fantasy series has garnered popular and critical praise since the first no [...]
Tad Williams relaunches website
I'm pleased to say that the official Tad Williams website has been relaunched. It's a good looking, blog-styled website featuring a message board, biography, bibliography and much more.
The latest novel by Tad Williams, Shadowplay, will be published in March by Orbit UK. [...]
Book review - The Dragonbone Chair
The Dragonbone Chair, the first book in the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams has been reviewed on FantasyBookReview.co.uk. The book was rated as worthy of 8.4 out of 10 and this has placed it at #37 in the list of the best fantasy books of all time.
http://www.fantasybookreview.co [...]
Tad Williams added to FantasyBookReview.co.uk
Tad Williams, the American author of fantasy books has been added to the site and his page features a short biograaphy, bibliography and latest news section. As far as book reviews go, The Dragonbone Chair will be reviewed very shortly.
http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Tad-Williams/biography.ht [...]
Tad Williams interviews
An interview with Tad Williams at SFFWorld.com in which he talks about his
Otherland series and how some of the events in his books have now occured in
real-life.
Tad Williams interview
Book of the Month
Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill
Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it’s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever.
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Book View Cafe is a cooperative site created by a group of writers - including internationally renowned authors Katharine Kerr, Ursula Le Guin and Vonda N. McIntyre - who want to take advantage of the internet's possibilities for reaching a wider audience and to distribute their work directly to their readers. The Book View Cafe is a place where you can find free, original fiction plus the authors' best and out-of-print work for a fee. Fantasy Book Review spoke to Book View Cafe member, science fiction author and memoirist Chris Dolley in February 2010.
Special Feature: Understanding the author of Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, the elusive author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, has been the subject of enduring fascination for the past hundred years. The destruction of many major documents about his personal life by his descendants has only magnified the mystery. Jenny Woolf's biography, published to coincide with the release of the new Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland film, lays waste to the myths and suspicions that have obscured Carroll's reputation by placing him firmly in the context of his own time.
