David J. Williams is a British-born American science fiction writer and video game writer. His debut novel, The Mirrored Heavens, was described as "Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling" by Stephen Baxter, and is part of the Autumn Rain Trilogy, with a sequel entitled The Burning Skies released in June 2009.Though Jack Campbell has called Williams' debut novel a "21st century Neuromancer", others have questioned whether Williams' work is in fact cyberpunk.