Sean Williams
Author of over sixty published short stories and eighteen
novels, including the Books of the Change and The
Resurrected Man, his work has been published around the
world in numerous languages, on-line, and in spoken word
editions. He is currently completing the fourth book of
his second fantasy series, the Books of the Cataclysm, and
has just sold Astropolis, a solo space opera trilogy, into
the US and UK His science fiction has been likened to that of the "Three
Gregs" (Benford, Bear and Egan) while his fantasy has
garnered comparisons to Peter Carey and Ursula K. Le Guin.
His novel The Crooked Letter was the first fantasy novel in
the history of Australian speculative fiction to win both
Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. With collaborator Shane Dix, he produced the Evergence,
Orphans and Geodesica series and co-wrote the Star Wars:
New Jedi Order: Force Heretic trilogy. Together, they have
been called "the new Niven & Pournelle for the 21st
century" and were recently "Thogged" in Ansible. A multiple recipient of both the Ditmar & Aurealis Awards
(including a nomination for the Professional Achievement
category of the Ditmar in 2005), Sean Williams has written
reviews, music (for which he won a Young Composer's Award
in 1984), a stage play, and the odd haiku. He lives in Adelaide -- a town once portrayed by Salman
Rushdie as "an ideal setting for a Stephen King novel" and
by Jules Verne as the prettiest city in Australia -- where
he is completing a Masters in Creative Writing at Adelaide
University. He is a committee member of the award-winning
Big Book Club, a judge in the Writers of the Future
contest, and a former Chair of the SA Writers' Centre. He
has been a peer assessor for the Literature Board of the
Australia Council and a judge for the Aurealis Awards,
tutored for Clarion South in 2005, and was recently made an
honorary member of the International Golden Key Honour
Society. He has been a guest of all the literary festivals
of Australian capital cities (some of them more than once)
and various National SF Conventions. His name appears on
the Celebrity Atheist List. He DJs and cooks curries less frequently than he used to,
but still likes mentioning them in his bio.
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Series
Books:Let Sleeping Dragons Lie, November 2018
Have Sword, Will Travel #2
Hardcover / e-Book
Troubletwisters Book 2, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Star Wars The Force Unleashed, August 2008
Hardcover
Earth Ascendant, May 2008
Paperback
The Hanging Mountains, June 2007
The Cataclysm #3
Hardcover
Geodesica: Descent, February 2006
Paperback
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