Logo
Home
Bio
Blog
Titles
Books
Fantasy
Books of the Cataclysm: The Devoured Earth
Books of the Change: The Sky Warden & the Sun
Books of the Cataclysm: The Blood Debt
Books of the Cataclysm: The Hanging Mountains
Books of the Cataclysm: The Crooked Letter
Books of the Change: The Storm Weaver & the Sand
Books of the Change: The Stone Mage & the Sea
Kids
Broken Land: The Changeling
Escape From Thorngate Hall
Fixers: Castle of the Zombies
Fixers: Planet of the Cyborgs
Have Sword, Will Travel
Let Sleeping Dragons Lie
Spirit Animals: Blood Ties
Troubletwisters
Troubletwisters: The Missing (Missing, Presumed Evil)
Troubletwisters: The Monster
Troubletwisters: The Mystery
Broken Land: The Dust Devils
Her Perilous Mansion
Fixers: Curse of the Vampire
Fixers: Invasion of the Freaks
Broken Land: The Scarecrow
Mainstream
Impossible Music
Sci-Fi
113 (Twinmaker)
Astropolis: Cenotaxis
Astropolis: Earth Ascendant
Astropolis: Saturn Returns
Crashland
Evergence: The Dark Imbalance
Evergence: The Dying Light
Hollowgirl
Metal Fatigue
Orphans: Echoes of Earth
Orphans: Heirs of Earth
Orphans: Orphans of Earth
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
The Resurrected Man
Twinmaker
Astropolis: The Grand Conjunction
Geodesica: Descent
Geodesica: Ascent
Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Remnant
Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Refugee
Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Reunion
Evergence: The Prodigal Sun
Collections
A View Before Dying
Bonus Twinmaker Stories
Doorway to Eternity
Eyes on the Stars
Go (Twinmaker)
Gods of Space
Light Bodies Falling
Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams
Matterpunk (Twinmaker)
New Adventures in Sci-Fi
Praying to the Aliens
Sleeping Boys
Strange Ways
The Earthlings
The Future Trap
The View from the End of the World
The E. W. Story Omnibus
Music
“Cinnabar Field”
“Collapsar” & “Gravatar”
“Echoes of Tithonus”
“Gathering the Light”
“Have Heart, Will Travel” / “The Anchor Tree”
“humbug” (noise sampler)
“Invisible Assembly”
“Laura of the Bells”
“Nostalgiac”
“Oratunga Noir”
“Resonance”
“the air is full of phantoms” (ambient sampler)
“under the bright Cuernavaca sky” (with Sam Rosenthal)
Adrift (with deepspace)
alive in the hall of possibilities
and_scape
Inner Real Life
mach ruhe
moth
Slow Pianos
Structured Ambient Noise
Isolation
Spiral Symphony
Opinions
“A Day in the Life of…”
“Behind the Sofa”
“Big Bang Brussels Sprouts” (recipe)
“Bondage” (writing advice)
“Carrie”
“Collaboration made easy: 6 ways to build a writing relationship”
“Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism”
“Elsewhere”
“From the ‘Angry Shilling’ to the ‘Jealous Wall'”
“Get Lost” (on novel writing)
“Hardwired” (interview)
“Her Name Is Cordelia”
“Introduction to The Shrieking Pit”
“Introduction to When I Close My Eyes”
“Keeping the Pace” (writing advice)
“Naamgenoot” (The Listserve)
“No Axis, No Boundary: Defining Science Fiction”
“On the Dangers of Literature Addiction” (speech)
“On the Fly” (essay)
“SF and Music”
“Sparks”
“The 10.5 Commandments of Writing”
“The A-Z of Writing”
“The Commandments of Writing” (The Conversation)
“The Nix Files”
“The Tragic Demise of Science Fiction’s Greatest Idea”
“Three Visits to the Ring of Kerry”
“To Sleep No More (Perchance to Write)”
“What’s In My Bag?”
“Why Fantasy & Science Fiction?” (speech)
“Humour, Justice, Belonging, Danger, and Wonder: 5 story senses and the art of writing for children”
"Introduction to The Lady of Situations"
Inside a Dog (residency)
The Adventures of Antarctica Sean
The Adventures of Canberra Sean
“MT Promises: Science Fictional Travel Technologies and the Making and Unmaking of Corporeal Identity”
Poetry
“Artefact: Ant Attack”
“Daihaiku” and “Haikaiju”
“Daikaiju Limericks”
“Dreamless: Super-Villanelle Dub Mix” and “Dreamless: Super-Villanelle Dub Alternate Mix”
“Eternity”
“M-Cubed”
“Moist”
“No Solace Among Others”
“Parched”
“Reflections on Water”
“The Origin of Haiku by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Renga in the Struggle for Meaning”
“The Rise, and Fall, of Neologopolis”
Haiku
Limerick
Short Works
Fantasy
“A Better Place”
“Seeking the Great Current”
“Team Sharon”
“The Butterfly Merchant”
“The Empire’s Son”
“The Goggle”
“The Jade Woman of the Luminous Star”
“The Leaf”
“The Magic Dirt Experiment”
“The Mirror in the Middle of the Maze”
“The Spark (A Romance in Four Acts): A Tale of the Change”
“Ungentle Fire”
Five Articles Selected at Random from the Scarlet Exposition
Horror
“(Untitled)”
“Burglar Alarm”
“Crossed Lines”
“Doorway to Eternity”
“Freezing Sarah”
“Going Nowhere”
“Hunting Ground”
“Mary’s Blood”
“Mawson on the Moon”
“Nightmare”
“Passing the Bone”
“Playing Radio”
“Playing Radio”
“Reluctant Misty & the House on Burden Street”
“Signs of Death”
“Tears of the Living Dead”
“The Darkest Night”
“The Girl-Thing”
“The Wedding of the Millennium, Part 1: The Twain”
“The Wedding of the Millennium, Part 2: The Barren Heart”
“The Winter Gardener”
“Twist of the Knife”
“Woman’s Revenge”
Mainstream
“Dr Williams’s Big Bad Dad Joke Word Search Puzzle”
“Impossible Music” (novella)
Sci-Fi
“A Giant Leap for a Man”
“A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (And the Threat It Entails)”
“A Longing for the Dark”
“A Map of the Mines of Barnath”
“A View Before Dying”
“A View from the End of the World”
“All the Wrong Places”
“Atrax”
“Cold Sleep, Cold Dreams”
“Dark Gardens”
“Death & the Hobbyist”
“Deconstructing Decompression”
“Dissolution Days”
“Dying for Air”
“Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie”
“Evermore”
“Face Value”
“Ghost of a Day”
“Ghosts of the Fall”
“Goddess of Stone”
“Heartbreak Hotel”
“Hollow Men”
“I, Q”
“Immaterial Progress”
“In the Eye of the Octopus”
“Incomplete No.7”
“Inevitable”
“Light Bodies Falling”
“Looking Forward, Looking Back:
“Loopholes in Light”
“Love and Mandarins”
“Lust, Entrapment and the Matter Transmitter: A Case Study”
“Midnight in the Cafe of the Black Madonna”
“Murdering Miss Deboo”
“Mutata Superesse”
“New Flames for an Old Love”
“Night of the Dolls”
“Noah No-one and the Infinity Machine”
“On the Road to Tarsus”
“On This Rock”
“Or Die Trying”
“Rare Justice”
“Redux”
“Reunion”
“Robbery, Assault and Battery”
“Salvation”
“Sing, My Murdered Darlings”
“Tall Tales about Today My Great-great-granddaughter Will Tell”
“The Beholders”
“The Blink”
“The Cuckoo”
“The Dark Matters”
“The End of the World Begins at Home”
“The Haunted Earth”
“The Jackie Onassis Swamp-Buggy Concerto”
“The Land Itself”
“The Legend Trap”
“The Lives of Riley”
“The Mashup”
“The Masque of Agamemnon”
“The Missing Metatarsal”
“The N-Body Solution”
“The New Venusians”
“The Nightmare Stars”
“The Other Forty-Two”
“The Perfect Gun”
“The Second Coming of the Martians”
“The Seventh Letter”
“The Soap Bubble”
“The Stuff of Dreams (& Far Stranger Things”
“The Third and Final Death of Ronald Saw”
“The Thirteenth Protocol”
“The Trilerbe Dulciftify”
“The Truth in Advertising”
“The Tyranny of Distance”
“This Magical Life”
“Tourist”
“Traffic”
“Uber”
“White Christmas”
“Zero Temptation”
“The Misadventures of Tom Jones, Time Traveller”
Reviews
Contact
geodesica descent – excerpt