Received copies of ASIM 50--and it is a beauty! Contains my 8-word short story "The Rise, and Fall, of Neologopolis" and much, much more.

The two novellas I have out this year are not only substantial (>20k) and therefore great bang for your buck, but two of the best things I’ve ever written. As if that weren’t enough, they also connect to existing stories--so if you want to know what finally happens to Ros and Adi, the two most famous lovers in the world of the Change, or if you ( Read more... )

Hey, this is cool. I haven’t mentioned here before that Pop Pictures has optioned my short “Passing the Bone”* with the intention of turning it into a feature film. But that’s not all. Turns out the treatment by Chris Houghton has won the Australian Writers’ Guild’s inaugural Sharp Prize!

To quote last week’s press release:

“The AWG Sharp Prize is ( Read more... )

Fans of "A Map of the Mines of Barnath" and the awesome StarShipSofa will be pleased to know that the two have come together at last.  Download "Aural Delights No 104 Sean Williams", with a bonus intro by me, and enjoy!

Thanks, Tony!

If you liked my story "A Map of the Mines of Barnath", then you might also like "Inevitable", which has just come out in the Strahan/Dozois collection New Space Opera 2. It's the first glimpse into the world of the Structure since "Barnath" was published, way back in 1994. It's the last until a much larger novella in Godlike Machines, hopefully ( Read more... )

The awesome Nameless competition is now open for business!

If you don't know what that is, check the link above. In brief, a clutch of the grisliest writers on this foul isle put together a blood-soaked round-robin story--and you could be the person to finish it!

I was fortunate enough to get the penultimate section. My instalment is now online. I ( Read more... )

If you're looking for a read, here are some things I have out at the moment:

• The Scarecrow - the final book in my first kids' series, set in the same world as the Books of the Change/Cataclysm.
• The Hanging Mountains - the third book in the Cataclysm series, now out in a delicious tpb from Pyr in the US.

(Despite being separated in time from The ( Read more... )

Thanks to the awesome efforts of angriest, Hope #2, the fundraiser fanzine helping the victims of the Victorian bushfires, is now out. It contains (among many other excellent things) my story "The Haunted Earth", which was inspired by a dream Shane Dix's son, Sam, had when he was a wee lad. The story was written in June, 1993, and has never been ( Read more... )

My 70th published short story is now in the world--but not in the usual sense of "published". It's unavailable on paper or in any readable form. Instead, you have to put your feet up and listen to me read it to you. I hope that won't pose an unbearable inconvenience ( Read more... )

The ever excellent io9 gets to grips with a pressing question--"Why are some writers so prolific, and others slower than you'd like?"--touching on the scandalous proposal that writing realist fiction is a doddle because you don't have to make everything up ( Read more... )