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Liz Williams | |
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| Born | (1965-02-26)February 26, 1965 (age 60) Gloucester, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Science fiction and fantasy |
Liz Williams (born 1965) is a Britishscience fiction writer, historian and occultist.The Ghost Sister, her first novel, was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next,Empire of Bones (2002) were nominated for thePhilip K. Dick Award.[1] She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series.
Williams is the daughter of astage magician and aGothic novelist.[2] She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science fromCambridge (for which her supervisor wasPeter Lipton[3]). She has had short stories published inAsimov's,Interzone,The Third AlternativeandVisionary Tongue. From the mid-nineties until 2000, she lived and worked inKazakhstan.[4] Her experiences there are reflected in her 2003 novelNine Layers of Sky. This novel brings into the modern era theBogatyrIlya Muromets and Manas the hero of theEpic of Manas. Her novels have been published in the US and the UK, while her third novelThe Poison Master (2003) has been translated intoDutch.
Williams practicesmodern Druidry and co-owns a pagan and esoteric store inGlastonbury. In 2020, she published apopular history book aboutmodern paganism in the United Kingdom,Miracles of Our Own Making.[5]
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| Tycho and the Stargazer | 2003 | Asimov's Science Fiction Vol 27, No 12 | ||
| Out of Scarlight | 2013 | Old Mars (anthology)[b][c] | ||
| The marriage of the sea | 2015 | Williams, Liz (April–May 2015). "The marriage of the sea".Asimov's Science Fiction.39 (4–5):79–82. |
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