Book description
In the early 22nd century, humans' electronic reproductions, known as
engrams, have been sent on fact-finding missions throughout the known
universe-searching for signs of alien life.
But what they find exceeds their wildest dreams-in nightmarish
proportions. 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'.
