universe is Williamson's second novel, The Hero (2004), which was written with John Ringo and made the Locus Bestseller list in February 2006. The book is a part of the Legacy of the Aldenata series. It appeared in German as Invasion – Heldentaten and in Russian as Герой. Williamson has also written the Target: Terror (2004–2005) military fiction series which is set in the world of the Target: Terror arcade game. His stand-alone novels include the time-travel story A Long Time Until Now (2014) which was praised for its characterization and survivalist elements. As of 2016, Williamson's books had sold half a million copies. Williamson has contributed short fiction to numerous anthologies, including many which take place in the Valdemar and Elemental Masters shared universes created by Mercedes Lackey. He has also contributed stories to the Heroes in Hell shared universe and to many anthologies of military science fiction published by Baen. An anthology of Williamson's short fiction, Tour of Duty (2013), was reviewed by Publishers Weekly which singled out "The Humans call it Duty" as "strong" and "Desert Blues" as "subtly haunting". In 2015, Baen Books released an anthology, The Year's Best Military SF & Space Opera, which was described by Don Sakers of Analog as "long overdue". Baen Books invited readers to vote for the best story from the volume. Sakers commented: "We can only hope that the award, like the anthology, will become an annual event." Williamson won the readers' poll for the short story "Soft Casualty" and was presented with an award at Dragon Con. The story deals with psychological warfare as an occupying force encounters harsh resistance tactics. Williamson's Wisdom from My Internet (2014), a collection of witticisms and political polemic from the Internet, was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Related Work in 2015, as a result of the Sad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign. Hugo voters ranked Wisdom from My Internet below "No Award". Williamson himself stated while the poll was underway that he had voted for no award in all categories, including the one in which his own work appeared. Themes Williamson was recruited as an author by ex-soldier and publisher Jim Baen who "recruited a batch of younger, like-minded authors from similar backgrounds"; Williamson, David Drake, John Ringo and Tom Kratman. Commonalities in the works of these authors include the setting of a civilization in decline with heroes battling against conventional