Book description
The year is 2388. Humanity has spread to the stars, but the far-flung
Arc Systems chafe under the tight control of the Exarchs, post-human AIs
whose domination of Faster-Than-Light technology gives them unsurpassed
power.
Then the discovery of a vast hyperspatial labyrinth known as the
Geodesica changes everything. Author of seventy published short
stories and twenty-nine novels, nominated for the Ditmar, the Aurealis
and the prestigious Philip K Dick Award for SATURN RETURNS, Williams has
been published around the world in numerous languages, on-line, and in
spoken word editions. His current projects include ASTROPOLIS, a
gothic-noir gender-bending space opera trilogy, and THE BROKEN LAND, a
dark fantasy series for children set in the same fantasy universe as the
BOOKS OF THE CHANGE. Concluding volumes in each, THE GRAND CONJUNCTION
and THE SCARECROW, are 2009 books. He has also written the novelization
of the computer game STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED, which debuted at #1
on the New York Times bestseller list. MAGIC DIRT: the Best of Sean
Williams was launched in 2008 and won the first Aurealis Award for Best
Collection.
Sean's science fiction has been likened to that of the "Three
Gregs" (Benford, Bear and Egan) while his fantasy has garnered
comparisons to Peter Carey, China Miéville 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.
The fourth instalment of the BOOKS OF THE CATACLYSM, THE DEVOURED EARTH,
was released in Australia in September, 2006. Shane Dix is a science
fiction writer perhaps best known for his collaborations with Sean
Williams. With Sean Williams, Shane Dix has produced the EVERGENCE
series (three volumes), the ORPHANS OF EARTH series (three volumes) and
the GEODESICA series (two volumes). Shane Dix is a Welsh-born Australian
science fiction writer best known for his collaborations with Sean
Williams, with whom he has produced the EVERGENCE series (three
volumes), the ORPHANS OF EARTH series (three volumes) and the GEODESICA
series (two volumes). They also co-wrote the STAR WARS: NEW JEDI ORDER:
FORCE HERETIC trilogy. Together, they have been called 'the new Niven
& Pournelle for the 21st century'.
