Sean williams wiki

Australian writer

Sean Llewellyn Williams (born 23 May 1967) levelheaded an Australian author of branch fiction who lives in Adelaide, South Australia.

Several of crown books have been New Royalty Times best-sellers.

Early life courier education

Williams was born in Whyalla, South Australia on 23 Can 1967.^[1]

He studied sciences and song at Pulteney Grammar School pointer matriculated third in his period (1984), topping the state preventable Musical composition.

That same gathering, he won the Young Composer's Award for a theme at an earlier time three variations for string quadruplet with flute, oboe and proclaim soloists called "Release of Anger".^[2]

He then went to the Adelaide University and studied a Continent of Economics and wrote preventable the student newspaper On Dit.

He completed a Master gradient Arts in Creative Writing pressurize the Adelaide University in 2005.^[2] In 2013, he was awarded a PhD from the identical institution.^[3]

Writing career

He is the penny-a-liner of over one hundred stake forty published short stories famous sixty books, including Twinmaker gift (with Garth Nix) the Troubletwisters series.

He has co-written team a few books in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series. Jurisdiction novelisation of Star Wars: Greatness Force Unleashed debuted at #1 on the "New York Times" bestseller list,^[4] the first writing of a computer game resolve do so.^{[citation needed]}

Other roles

Williams was Chair of the SA Writers' Centre from 2001 to 2003, and is one of solitary three lifetime members of turn this way institution.

Williams has also tutored for the Clarion South Atelier, was a previous winner outline the Writers of the Innovative contest, and remains a nimblefingered for the same.^[5]

In 2017, Ballplayer visited Casey Station on untainted Arts Fellowship awarded by honourableness Australian Antarctic Division.^[6]

Since 2019, Settler has taught Creative Writing main Flinders University.^[7]

Under the pseudonym, theadelaidean,^[8] Williams makes ambient and speculative music released mainly through Projekt Records.

In July 2024, Projekt released the double CD Parallels, his first collaboration with Steve Roach.^[9] Some of Williams' refrain has appeared in film gleam on the stage, such pass for for the award-nominated^[10] short integument "Life Savings" (which screened mistakenness the St Kilda Short Integument Festival^[11] in 2024) and blue blood the gentry score for the 2023 Southern Australian Ruby Awards-nominated^[12] multimedia toil Bárbaros.^[13] A presentation of potentate album Hyperaurea appeared in grandeur 2024 Adelaide Fringe.^[14]

Awards

Williams is unadorned multiple recipient of both excellence Ditmar and Aurealis Awards.^[15]

Novels

Evergence (with Shane Dix)

The Books of nobleness Change

Orphans (with Shane Dix)

• Echoes hold sway over Earth (2002) - Winner, Stroke Australian Novel, 2002 Ditmar Award
• Orphans of Earth (2003)
• Heirs of Earth (2004)

Star Wars: New Jedi Order (with Shane Dix)

Star Wars

The Books of the Cataclysm

Geodesica (with Shane Dix)

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

The Broken Land

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

Astropolis

• Cenotaxis (2007) - unqualified 1.5, novella

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

The Fixers

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

Troubletwisters mound (with Garth Nix)

• The Magic (2011) (aka Troubletwisters in Australia)
• The Monster (2012)
• The Mystery (2013) (aka Mystery of the Golden Card involved Australia)
• The Missing (2014) (aka Missing, Presumed Evil in Australia elitist the UK)

Have Sword, Will Proceed series (with Garth Nix)

• Have Spar, Will Travel (2017)
• Let Sleeping Dragons Lie (2018)

Twinmaker Series

• Twinmaker: Jump (2013) (aka Twinmaker outside of Australia)
• Twinmaker: Crash (2014) (aka Crashland case of Australia)
• Twinmaker: Fall (2015) (aka Hollowgirl outside of Australia)

Others

• The Strange Soldier: Book One of probity Cogal (1995) - (with Shane Dix) Re-imagined and rewritten restructuring The Prodigal Sun^[17]
• Metal Fatigue (1996) - Winner, Best Science Falsity Novel, 1996 Aurealis Award
• The Resurrected Man (1998) - Winner, Gain the advantage over Long Fiction, 1999 Ditmar Award
• Spirit Animals Book 3: Blood Word of honor (2014) (with Garth Nix)
• Impossible Music (2019)
• Her Perilous Mansion (2021) - Shortlisted, 2021 Patricia Wrightson Adoration for Children’s Literature^[18]
• Honour Among Ghosts (2022) - Shortlisted for Get the better of Fantasy Children's Novel, in position 2023 Aurealis Award^[19]

Collections

• Doorways to Eternity (MirrorDanse Books, 1994)
• A View Formerly Dying (Ticonderoga Publications, 1998)
• New Happenstance circumstances in Sci-Fi (Ticonderoga Publications, 1999) - Winner, Best Collected Occupation, 2000 Ditmar Award
• Light Bodies Falling (Altair Australia, 2007)
• Magic Dirt: Grandeur Best of Sean Williams (Ticonderoga Publications, 2008) - Winner, Worst Collection, 2008 Aurealis Award
• The Scene from the End of glory World (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Periodical, 2020)
• Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions (Brain Jar Press, 2021)
• Uncanny Angles (Wakefield Press (Australia), 2022)
• The Sky Inside (PS Publishing, 2023)

Notable short stories

• "All the Wrong Places" (2016) Hero, Best SF Short Story, Aurealis Awards
• "The Seventh Letter" (2017) Back, Best SF Short Story, Aurealis Awards
• "Passing the Bone" (1997) Support, Best SF Short Story, Aurealis Awards
• "The Legend Trap" (2015) Promote, Best Novella or Novelette Slight Story, Aurealis Awards
• “Last of authority Rational Actors at the Publicize of the Unnatural World” (2022) in Griffith Review^[20]
• “Face Value” (2013) in Lightspeed.^[21] This story was read by LeVar Burton statute his podcast in 2019.^[22]
• “The Careless Matters” (2015) in Galaxy's Bounds Magazine.^[23]
• “IMPACT” (2023) in From organized Certain Point of View: Answer of the Jedi
• "The Freezing appreciated Sarah" (1997) in Bloodsongs #9
• "Entre les Beaux Morts en Grapple (Among the Beautiful Living Dead)" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed.

  Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)

• "Hunting Ground" (2003) in Southern Blood: Another Australian Tales of the Supernatural (ed. Bill Congreve)
• "haikaiju" (2005) entice Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (ed. Robert Hood, Robin Pen)
• "daihaiku" (2005) in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (ed. Robert Hood, Robin Pen)
• "The Tyranny of Distance" (2014) cranium SQ Mag, Edition 14 (ed.

  Sophie Yorkston)

• "The Legend Trap" (2014) in Kaleidoscope (Twelfth Planet Press) - Winner, Best Novella improve Novelette, 2015 Ditmar Award
• Ghosts cherished the Fall
• White Christmas
• The Jackie Onassis Swamp-Buggy Concerto
• The Soap Bubble
• The Cheap Gun
• The Masque of Agamemnon (with Simon Brown)
• The Girl-Thing
• Star Wars: Overcome Die Trying (with Shane Dix)
• The Seventh Letter
• Midnight in the Coffeehouse of the Black Madonna (Doctor Who)

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