Before finding success as an acclaimed bestselling author, Tad Williams held numerous odd jobs, including insurance salesman, radio host, laying titles, and several years in a rock band called Idiot. Among his numerous acclaimed works are the classic stand alone novel Tailchaser’s Song (1985), the series Memory, Sorrow & Thorn (The Dragonbone Chair [1988], Stone of Farewell [1990], and To Green Angel Tower [1993]), Otherland (City of Golden Shadow [1996], River of Blue Fire [1998], Mountain of Black Glass [1999], and Sea of Silver Light [2001]), Shadowmarch (Shadowmarch [2004], Shadowplay [2007], Shadowrise [2010], and Shadowheart [2010]), Bobby Dollar (The Dirty Streets of Heaven [2012], Happy Hour in Hell [2013], and Sleeping Late on Judgement Day [2014]), The Ordinary Farm Adventures (both with Deborah Beale The Dragons of Ordinary Farm [2009] and The Secrets of Ordinary Farm [2011]). Williams other non-series books include Child of an Ancient City (1992 with Nina Kiriki Hoffman), Caliban’s Hour (1994), Mirror World (1998), and The War of the Flowers (2002). His most recent works. a return to the world of the popular Memory, Sorrow & Thorn, comprise The Last King of Osten Ard series (The Heart of What Was Lost [2017], The Witchwood Crown [2017], Empire of Grass [2019], Brothers of the Wind [2021], and Into the Narrowdark [2022]).

Williams has authored comics for DC, Image, Wildstorm, and Big Entertainment. Titles included Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis, The Next, WildC.A.T.S., Divine Right, and Mirrorworld: Rain. His numerous shorter works have been collected in Rite: Short Work (2006), A Stark and Wormy Knight (2011), THE VERY BEST OF TAD WILLIAMS (2014), and Le plus heureux de tous les enfants décédés [French] (2018).

All of us at Tachyon wish the fantastical Tad a happy birthday.