- Author: William John Watkins Author Record # 89
- Legal Name: Watkins, William Jon
- Birthplace: Coaldale, Pennsylvania, USA
- Birthdate: 19 July 1942
- Language: English
- Webpages: SFE, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Death, William Jon Watkins, William J. Watkins
- Author Tags: science fiction (2), holograms (1), foster parents (1), orphans (1), virtual reality (1), space habitats (1), gravity (1), coming of age (1), encounter with Death (1), scifaiku (1)
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Fiction Series
- Legrange League
- 1 The Centrifugal Rickshaw Dancer (1985)
- 2 Going to See the End of the Sky (1986)
- Ecodeath (1972) with Gene Snyder [only as by E. V. Snyder and William Jon Watkins]
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Clickwhistle (1973)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Clickwhistle (1973) [as by William Jon Watkins]
- Translation: Klickpfiff [German] (1981) [as by William Jon Watkins]
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The God Machine (1973)
only appeared as:
- Variant: The God Machine (1973) [as by William Jon Watkins]
- Translation: Le dieu machine [French] (1977) [as by William Jon Watkins]
- Translation: Gegner des Systems [German] (1981) [as by William Jon Watkins]
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The Litany of Sh'reev (1976)
with
Gene Snyder
only appeared as:
- Variant: The Litany of Sh'reev (1976) [as by Gene Snyder and William Jon Watkins]
- Translation: Die Litanei von Sh'reev [German] (1982) [as by Gene Snyder and William Jon Watkins]
- What Rough Beast (1980) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
- The Last Deathship Off Antares (1989)
- Cosmic Thunder (1996)
- Ten Micro Novels (1974) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
- The People's Choice (1974) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
- The Last Ten Micro Novels (1975) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
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Coming of Age in Henson's Tube (1977)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Coming of Age in Henson's Tube (1977) [as by William Jon Watkins]
- Translation: Mutprobe in der Hensonröhre [German] (1979) [as by William Jon Watkins]
- Butcher's Thumb (1978) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
- Post Awful (1985)
- A Bite of the Apple (1989)
- Ants (1989)
- In the Lowerarchy of the Underpinning (1991)
- The Resurrectionist (1992)
- For Which the First Was Made (1993)
- Hearts and Minds (1993)
- Home Art (1993) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
- The Beggar in the Living Room (1993)
- Snow Scene with Frozen Rabbit (1993)
- American Cusine (1993)
- The Mist of Avalon Nine (1994)
- The Seven Succubi (1994) [only as by William J. Watkins]
- Part Way Down Sleep's Mountain (1994)
- The Massive Quantities of Ice (1995)
- Good Help Is Hard to Find (1995)
- Zombies at the Public Facility (2000)
- Stained Glass Windows (2001)
- Under the Sand (2001)
- Seijin's Enlightenment (2005)
- The Polka Man (2007)
- Five Hundred Vinnies (2009)
- The Fall of Stile City (2013)
- Two Poems (1973) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
- untitled (1975) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
- untitled ("A lazy outpost war...") (1976) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
- Like Snow-Humped Fields Afraid of Rain (1977) [only as by William Jon Watkins]
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Inverse Universe (1979)
only appeared as:
- Variant: Inverse Universe (1979) [as by William Jon Watkins]
- Translation: Univers invers [Romanian] (1992)
- When the Vikings Owned the Mythology (1987)
- The Kiwi Walks Across My Chest with Feet of Fire (1988)
- The Loving Armageddon (1988)
- Note Attached to Cryogenic Corpse (1988) [only as by Death]
- Elegy for an Undead Man (1988)
- If Freezing Is a One-Way Street (1988)
- Timewalker's Plague (1988)
- Untitled (1989)
- Heisenberg Zen (1990)
- Momento Mori (1990)
- The Cryogenic Zoo (1990) [also as by William Jon Watkins]
- The ICEities of the Law (1990)
- Metafossil (1990)
- A Diferença [Portuguese] (1991)
- Reason Is a Reptile (1991)
- The Lagrange League Stationary Habitats (1991)
- The Second Generation Mole Talks of the Ozone Hole (1992)
- The Sex Kitten 3000 Simulation Game with Sensor Pads (1992)
- Why I Read Science Fiction (1992)
- A Technician in the Atmospheric Measurement Project Speaks His Mind on Working Six Month Shifts (1993)
- Crossdimensional Light (1993)
- How I Became a Teacher of Exobiology (1993)
- Prayer of the First Officer of the Doomed Liner, Impregnable (1993)
- Time-Machine-Him-Big-Fella-Break (1993)
- The Afterset (1993)
- The Time Tour Stops at My House After Lunch (1993)
- Downtime on Digger's World (1993)
- The Dreamers in Their Wired Hats (1993)
- Unicorn Sonnet (1993)
- Waxing Weary On The Demon Watch (1993)
- And the Sea Gave Up its Dead (1993)
- If there Is More than One Hell (1993)
- Late Night Wonders (1993)
- Once More at Thermopylae (1993)
- The Meat of Ingratitude (1993)
- The Dead Start Waving (1993)
- Xenophobe's Eulogy for Prometheus (1993)
- I Have An Attic Room In Kafka's Head (1993)
- Last Accident in the Biohazards Lab (1993)
- The Dusts of Palamon Are Bliss (1993)
- The Guided Tour (1993)
- The Pacifists of Talus Five (1993)
- Down at Bliss Control (1993)
- Found Carved Into the Hull of the Starship Cain on Paradise Three (1993)
- Table Manners (1993)
- These Angels in Our Midst (1993)
- At Bander's Bears (1994)
- Dark Gods Are Hunting Here (1994)
- Feeding the Dead (1994)
- First Check-Up After Chemo (1994)
- Alchemical Lessons (1994)
- Like Dogs That Run Mad and Stop Short (1994)
- Pity the Timelost (1994)
- Space Shot (1994)
- Time-Machine... (1994)
- Lullaby for Recent Settlers on Starfall Five (1994)
- The Secret Thief (1994)
- On Wanderer's Day (1994)
- The Vampire Sings (1994)
- The Meteorite (1994)
- Space Song Sung Back from the Horse's Head Anomaly (1995)
- The Trial of Those Responsible for the First Fall of Style City (1995)
- The Punishment of Niniane (1995)
- Death's a Face (1995)
- Kitchen Witch (1995)
- The Old Astronaut Sings to the Mourning Star (1995)
- Alzheimer's Comes to Salem (1995)
- Primative Casualties of Galactic Wars (1995)
- The Souring of the Mall (1995)
- Son, Dead on Solstice (1995)
- The Merry-Go-Round (1995)
- Spoils of War (1995)
- In Kafkaville the Funerals Run on Time (1995)
- The New Faust Re-Reads the Fine Print (1995)
- Bonebirds (1996)
- Frequently Unanswered Question-ing in Cyberland (1996)
- Last Message from Solar Voyager I (1996)
- Pendragon (1996)
- The Robots' Wasteland (1996)
- In Mr. Hyde's Park (1997)
- Navigable Souls (1997)
- We Live on the Edge of the Cloud (1997)
- 17 Questions the Judges of Nuremberg Forgot to Ask (1997)
- Why the Mummy Kills (1997)
- At the Sceptics' Convention (1997)
- It Could Be Anyone These Days (1997)
- The Lovecraft Ritual (1998)
- Colonists (1998)
- The Archangel's Farewell to Those Leaving for Earth (1998)
- They Do Not Sing in Deepest Space (1998)
- Water's Edge (1998)
- Bad Twists in the Helix of LIfe (1999)
- Pioneer's Song (1999)
- Butterside Down (1999)
- New York Ten Years After the Resurrection (1999)
- Hell's Receptionist (1999)
- The Mourner Explains Time Travel (1999)
- Prince of Poets (2000)
- The Werewife's Sacrifice (2001)
- Goldsmith Bigger Than the World (2001)
- We Die As Angels (2001)
- The Old Adventurer Stops in Frost's Woods (2001)
- Chant Heard from the Street Outside the Church of the Last Escape (2002)
- Who Knows The Homonym For "Ritual Murder" (2002)
- The Werewife Wonders About Genetics (2002)
- The Werewife's Whelps Leave Home (2002)
- The Werewolf Ages (2002)
- Star Soul Meets Death: Part I (2003)
- Star Soul Meets Death: Part II (2003)
- The Werewife's Trade-In (2003)
- How Freedom Comes (2003)
- "two hundred miles" (2004)
- The Werewife Waits (2004)
- Thank-You Note to Sandra from the Anti-Matter Universe (2004)
- The Werewolf in the Supermarket (2004)
- 38 Light Years Out (2005)
- Fallen Angels' Song (2005)
- Song of the Harpy's Lover (2005)
- The Werewolf Escapes His Wife (2005)
- The Werewolf's Absolution (2005)
- Chaos Theory (2006)
- Demon Armies of the Night (2006)
- Burying Maud (2006)
- Solar Radiations (2010)
- Black Hole (2011)
- The Werewolf's Wife Stays (2011)
- Red Eye (2011)
- How Fallen Angels Spend Their Golden Years (2011)
- The Atom's Lattice Could Such Beauty Yield (2012)
- Indefensible Disclosures (2013)
- The Old Time Traveler's Song (2014)
- The Werewolf Returns (2016)
- Mr. Hyde's Pillow Talk (2016)
- The Pax Pandemica (2017)