Sean Williams (author)

Sean Williams
Sean Williams at the 2012 Texas Book Festival.
Born	(1967-05-23) 23 May 1967 Whyalla, Australia
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Australian
Genres	Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
www.seanwilliams.com

Sean Llewellyn Williams (born 23 May 1967) is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide, Australia. He was born in Whyalla, Australia. He is the author of almost seventy published short stories and twenty-seven novels, including the Books of the Cataclysm and (with Shane Dix) Evergence, Orphans and Geodesica series. He has co-written three books in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series and is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. His novelisation of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was the first novelisation of a computer game to debut at #1 on the "New York Times" bestseller list.

He studied sciences and music at Pulteney Grammar School and matriculated thirty third in his year (1984), topping the state for Musical composition. That same year, he won the Young Composer's Award for a theme and three variations for string quartet with flute, oboe and trumpet soloists called "Release of Anger". He then went to Adelaide University and studied a Bachelor of Economics and wrote for the student newspaper "On Dit". He completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Adelaide University in 2005 and is currently a PhD candidate at the same institution.

Sean Williams is a supporter of Australians Against Racism and the "SETI@home" project. He is a member of "SFWA", the Extropian Institute and the Australian Society of Authors, and was Chair of the SA Writers' Centre from 2001-2003. His publishers include HarperCollins Australia, Del Rey, Ace, Pyr, Swift and Ticonderoga Publications. He appears on the "Celebrity Atheist List". Williams has also tutored for the Clarion Workshop, and Clarion South Workshop.

Novels

Evergence (with Shane Dix)

• The Prodigal Sun (1999)
• The Dying Light (2000) - Winner, Best Long Fiction, 2001 Ditmar Award
• The Dark Imbalance (2001) - Winner, Best Science Fiction Novel, 2001 Aurealis Award

The Books of the Change

• The Stone Mage & the Sea (2001)
• The Sky Warden & the Sun (2002)
• The Storm Weaver & the Sand (2002) - Winner, Best Fantasy Novel, 2002 Aurealis Award

Orphans (with Shane Dix)

• Echoes of Earth (2002) - Winner, Best Australian Novel, 2002 Ditmar Award
• Orphans of Earth (2003)
• Heirs of Earth (2004)

Star Wars: New Jedi Order (with Shane Dix)

• Force Heretic I: Remnant (2003)
• Force Heretic II: Refugee (2003)
• Force Heretic III: Reunion (2003)

Star Wars

• The Force Unleashed (2008)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance (2010)
• The Force Unleashed II (2010)

The Books of the Cataclysm

• The Crooked Letter (2004) - Winner, Best Novel, 2004 Ditmar Award & Winner, Best Fantasy Novel, 2004 Aurealis Award
• The Blood Debt (2005)
• The Hanging Mountains (2005)
• The Devoured Earth (2006)

Geodesica (with Shane Dix)

• Ascent (2005) - Winner, Best Novel, 2005 Ditmar Award
• Descent (2006)

The Broken Land

• The Changeling (2008) - Shortlisted for Best Young Adult Novel, and Best Children's Novel, in the 2008 Aurealis Award.
• The Dust Devils (2008) - Shortlisted for the Best Children's Novel, in the 2008 Aurealis Award.
• The Scarecrow (2009)

Astropolis

• Saturn Returns (2007) - Winner, Best Novel, 2008 Ditmar Award

• Cenotaxis (2007) - book 1.5, novella

• Earth Ascendant (2008)
• The Grand Conjunction (2009)

The Fixers

• Castle of the Zombies (2010)
• Planet of the Cyborgs (2010)
• Last of the Vampires (2010)
• Invasion of the Weird (2010)

Troubletwisters series (with Garth Nix)

• Troubletwisters (2011)
• The Monster (2012)

Others

• The Unknown Soldier: Book One of the Cogal (1995) - (with Shane Dix) Re-imagined and rewritten as The Prodigal Sun
• Metal Fatigue (1996) - Winner, Best Science Fiction Novel, 1996 Aurealis Award
• The Resurrected Man (1998) - Winner, Best Long Fiction, 1999 Ditmar Award

Collections

• Doorways to Eternity (MirrorDanse Books, 1994)
• A View Before Dying (Ticonderoga Publications, 1998)
• New Adventures in Sci-Fi (Ticonderoga Publications, 1999) - Winner, Best Collected Work, 2000 Ditmar Award
• Light Bodies Falling (Altair Australia, 2007)
• Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams (Ticonderoga Publications, 2008) - Winner, Best Collection, 2008 Aurealis Award

Notable short stories

• "The Freezing of Sarah" (1997) in Bloodsongs #9
• "Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie (Among the Beautiful Living Dead)" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)
• "Hunting Ground" (2003) in Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural (ed. Bill Congreve)
• "haikaiju" (2005) in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (ed. Robert Hood, Robin Pen)
• "daihaiku" (2005) in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (ed. Robert Hood, Robin Pen)
• Ghosts of the Fall
• White Christmas
• The Jackie Onassis Swamp-Buggy Concerto
• The Soap Bubble
• The Perfect Gun
• The Masque of Agamemnon (with Simon Brown)
• The Girl-Thing
• Star Wars: Or Die Trying (with Shane Dix)
• The Seventh Letter
• Midnight in the Cafe of the Black Madonna (Doctor Who)

External links

• Personal Website
• Blog
• Interview with Sean Williams at Neth Space
• Interview with Sean Williams
• Interview by Tobias Buckell for Clarkesworld Magazine
• South Australian Writers Centre
• Interview 1 with www.theforce.net
• Interview 2 with www.theforce.net
• Sean Williams at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database