Liz Williams

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Liz Williams (born 1965) is a British science fiction writer. Her first novel, The Ghost Sister was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next, Empire of Bones (2002) were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.^[1] She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series.

She is the daughter of a stage musician and a Gothic novelist. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge (for which her supervisor was Peter Lipton^[2]). She has had short stories published in Asimov's, Interzone, The Third Alternative and Visionary Tongue. From the mid-nineties until 2000, she lived and worked in Kazakhstan.^[3] Her experiences there are reflected in her 2003 novel Nine Layers of Sky. Her novels have been published in the US and the UK, while her third novel The Poison Master (2003) has been translated into Dutch.

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The Ghost Sister (2001) - Philip K. Dick Award nominee
Empire of Bones (2002) - Philip K. Dick Award nominee
The Poison Master (2003)
Nine Layers of Sky (2003)
Banner of Souls (2004) - Shortlisted for the 20th Arthur C. Clarke Award, Philip K. Dick Award nominee
The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories (2004)
Detective Inspector Chen #1 - Snake Agent (2005)
Detective Inspector Chen #2 - The Demon and the City (2006)
Darkland (2006)
Detective Inspector Chen #3 - Precious Dragon (2007)
Bloodmind (2007)
Detective Inspector Chen #4 - The Shadow Pavilion (2008)