Book description
After Earth's demise, the last survivors have one goal: to contact any
extant colonies left and warn them of a coming menace. Alien ships are
arriving intent on the destruction of everything in their path. But then
help arrives - from an unexpected and unwelcome source. 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'.
