Tad Williams bibliography

This is complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy writer Tad Williams.

Bibliography

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

1. The Dragonbone Chair (Hardcover 1988, Paperback 1989)
2. Stone of Farewell (Hardcover 1990, Paperback 1991)
3. To Green Angel Tower (Hardcover 1993)

• Book 3 was split into 2 parts for paperback publication (1994):
  • To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 and To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (United States Edition)
  • To Green Angel Tower: Siege and To Green Angel Tower: Storm (United Kingdom edition)
• Novelette - The Burning Man (Legends) 1998
• Graphic Novel- The Burning man
• The Heart of What Was Lost (2017) ^[1]

Otherland

1. City of Golden Shadow (Hardcover 1996, Paperback 1998)
2. River of Blue Fire (Hardcover 1998, Paperback 1999)
3. Mountain of Black Glass (Hardcover 1999, Paperback 2000)
4. Sea of Silver Light (Hardcover 2001, Paperback 2002)

• Novelette - The Happiest Dead Boy in the World (Legends II) 2004
• Novelette - The Boy Detective of Oz (Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond) 2013

Shadowmarch

1. Shadowmarch (Hardcover 2004, Trade Paperback 2005, Mass-Market Paperback 2006)
2. Shadowplay (Hardcover 2007, Trade Paperback 2008, Mass-Market Paperback 2009)
3. Shadowrise (Hardcover 2010, Trade Paperback 2010, Mass-Market Paperback 2011).
4. Shadowheart (Hardcover 2010, Trade Paperback 2011, Mass-Market Paperback 2012).

Similar to the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series that was initially intended to be a trilogy but became a tetralogy instead, Book 3 became so lengthy that it was not possible to be published in one volume.

Ordinary Farm series

Young adult series, written with Deborah Beale (his wife)

1. The Dragons of Ordinary Farm (Hardcover, June 2009)
2. The Secrets of Ordinary Farm (Ebook, August 2011)

The Bobby Dollar books

Noir fantasy thrillers

1. The Dirty Streets of Heaven (Hardcover, September 4, 2012)^[2]
2. Happy Hour in Hell (Hardcover, September 26, 2013),^[3]
3. Sleeping Late on Judgement Day (Hardcover, September 2, 2014)^[4]

The Last King of Osten Ard

1. The Heart of What Was Lost (2017)
2. The Witchwood Crown (April 2017)
3. Empire of Grass (October 2017)
4. The Navigator's Children (October 2019)
5. The Shadow of Things to Come (forthcoming)

Standalone novels

• Tailchaser's Song (Hardcover 1985, Paperback 1986)
• Child of an Ancient City (Paperback 1992, written with Nina Kiriki Hoffman)
• Caliban's Hour (Hardcover 1994)
• The War of the Flowers (Hardcover 2003, Paperback 2004)

Collections

• Rite: Short Work (Hardcover, 2006) Subterranean Press. Published in January 2007.
• Rite: Short Work (Trade Paperback, May 2008) Subterranean Press/Far Territories. Reprint of the limited hc edition without the non-fiction pieces. The reprint only contains the short stories.
• A Stark and Wormy Knight (Ebook, 2011) Beale-Williams Enterprise. And ebook original that contains new pieces of short fiction. Edited by Deborah Beale and sold exclusively by Amazon.com.
• "A Stark and Wormy Knight" (Harcover 2012) Subterranean Press
• The Very Best of Tad Williams (Tachyon Publications, May 2014)

Short fiction and screenplays

• The Very Best of Tad Williams. Forthcoming career retrospective collection, featuring 16 stories and one screenplay.
• Short Fiction. Williams has published many works of short fiction, beginning with “Child of an Ancient City” in Weird Tales, Fall 1988 (expanded to book length in 1992), and continuing through 2013 with “The Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland Story” in the anthology Oz Reimagined: New Tales from The Emerald City and Beyond from editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen; “The Old Scale Game” in the anthology Unfettered from editor Shawn Speakman; and Diary Of A Dragon, a limited edition chapbook from Subterranean Press.^[5] Williams’s short fiction has been collected in RITE: Short Work (2006),^[6] A Stark and Wormy Knight (2012),^[7] and The Very Best of Tad Williams (2014).^[8] His short story “The Burning Man” was included in a graphic novel omnibus, The Wood Boy—The Burning Man, (with Raymond Feist) from the Dabel Brothers in 2005.^[9]
• Screenplays. Two television ideas, both unproduced, are included in RITE: Short Work: two episodes of “THE CLOAK” and “DOGS VERSUS THE WORLD.”^[6] The screenplay, “BLACK SUNSHINE,” is included in A Stark and Wormy Knight.^[7]

Comics

Williams’s first comic book series was Mirrorworld: Rain published in 1997. Only two were issued: Number 1 (the premier issue, February 1997) and Number 0 (April 1997), before the publisher Tekno Comix went out of business.^[10] In 2006 Williams wrote The Next, a six issue miniseries for DC Comics featuring art by Dietrich Smith (Aquaman, Outsiders) and Walden Wong (Day of Vengeance).^[11] In 2007, Tad wrote a one-shot issue for DC Comics’ Helmet of Fate Limited series: The Helmet Of Fate: Ibis The Invincible #1 (March 2007) featuring art by Phil Winslade (The Monolith).^[12] Tad continued writing for DC with issues 50 through 57 of Aquaman: Sword Of Atlantis, teamed with artists Shawn McManus (The Sandman, Shadowpact) and Walden Wong (The Creeper, The Next).^[13] His proposal, Bad Guy Factory, for a series “based on the idea that all those supervillains had to get their training and equipment somewhere” is included in the collection A Stark and Wormy Knight.^[7]

Maps and illustrations

Williams drew the maps included in his books, and his original illustrations are included in the first world edition of Caliban's Hour.^[5][14]

• Tailchaser's World (Map) (1986)
• The Dragonbone Chair (maps) (1988)
• Stone of Farewell (Maps) (1990)
• To Green Angel Tower (maps) (1993)
• Caliban's Hour (illustrations 1994)
• The Burning Man (map) (1998)
• Shadowmarch: Eion and Xand (maps) (2004)
• Southmarch: The Outer Keep (map) (2004)
• Southmarch: The Inner Keep (map) (2004)
• The March Kingdoms (map) (2004)
• March Kingdoms (map) (2007)
• Shadowplay: Hierosol (map) (2007)

Non-fiction

In addition to writing Introductions, Appendices, Synopses, Forewords, Afterwords, and Author’s Notes for his own books and stories, Williams’s non-fiction includes introductions for other books, essays, letters, and toastmaster speeches.^[5]

• Collected in RITE: Short Work (2006)^[6]

• Why I Write What I Write
• Idiot: A Brief History of a Band
• 100 Best Horror (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch)
• Six Books by Philip K. Dick
• Introduction to Michael Moorcock’s Gloriana
• Doctor Strangetoast, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rocket-Shaped Thing

• Introduction (Dragon Fantastic) (1992)
• Letter (Locus #407) (1994)
• An Appreciation (Elsie Wollheim) (1996)
• Mike Gilbert: An Appreciation (2000)
• Introduction (Gormenghast) (2007)
• Afterword (“The Lamentably Comical Tragedy (or The Laughably Tragic Comedy) of Lixal Laqavee”) (2009)
• Foreword (Elric: Swords and Roses) (2010)
• Ubik: An Afterword (2012)

Adaptations to other media

• Tailchaser’s Song is in development as an animated feature film from Animetropolis.^[15]
• Otherland is in development as an MMORPG. Production is currently relocating to the northern US.^[16]

References