Best Selling Books by Sean Williams

Ollie is lost. The world he came from is just one of many. Some of them are almost identical to his. Others contain cyborg pirates, living castles, talking cats-and now, hungry vampires too. Getting back home is proving surprisingly difficult. Fleeing from the eerie Fixers, Ollie lands in a village cursed by blood-sucking neighbours. It''s easy to take sides. But does Ollie choose the wrong one this time? And if so, how can he possibly put it right?

Jesse is in trouble, and this time Clair can''t help him. When Ant Wallace''s trap springs shut in New York, it''s up to Jesse to save a horribly injured Ray while at the same time dodging Mallory and an army of dupes. As if that isn''t bad enough, the city around him is acting strangely, as though it isn''t entirely . . . real. With the help of a new friend, and friends thought long-dead, Jesse must escape New York in order find Clair and help save the world.

When Imre Bergamasc, the First Prime of the Returned Continuum, is kidnapped by an unknown entity, which results in the deaths of innocent people, he is forced to return to Earth where saboteurs and dissidents threaten to destroy his empire. Original.

In the far future, in the aftermath of a mysterious galactic catastrophe, a false prophet comes face to face with his greatest adversary yet: a man who thinks he''s god, and might very well be right. While the battle for Earth rages around them, they face off, one wanting to conquer the world and the other to redeem it, and the victory may well decide the future of the galaxy, and of humanity itself.

Praise for Jump: ''A thrilling, existential head - trip'' - Alaya Dawn Johnson If you betrayed a friend, how far would you go to earn their forgiveness? If someone had saved your life, would you risk your life to save them? If you could bring someone back from the dead, who would you choose? Clair and Jesse have barely been reunited when the world is plunged into crisis - the d - mat network is broken. People are trapped, injured and dying, and it''s partly Clair''s fault. Peacekeepers enlist Clair to track down Q, the rogue AI - artificial intelligence - who saved her life and is the key to fixing the system. Targeted by dupes and abandoned by her friends, Clair finds powerful allies in the most unlikely places. But who can she trust? Q won''t respond to her calls for help, and if Clair finds her, will she be trapping her friend in a life of servitude or sending her to death by erasure? Caught between pro - and anti - d - mat philosophies, in a world on the brink of all - out war, Clair must decide where she stands - and who she stands with - at the end.

I was not I at all before the Words. I was formless and diffuse, with the sense of an earthworm but the perspective of a god. I had access to all the data accrued by the human race since the advent of writing.everywhere, and at the same time nowhere. Q is an AI - an Artificial Intelligence - newly created from a world of powerful supercomputers and matter transportation. But what happens when Q meets Clair, a real, flesh and blood girl? Is friendship possible between a human and a computer? A brilliant novella, retelling events of the Twinmaker series from Q''s perspective.

Words and song have long been thought to spring from the same expressive impulse. In Disgrace, JM Coetzee writes that "the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul". But what happens when the spoken word becomes text? To what extent can written language behave as though it were a type of music--or music act as a language? This special issue explores the many ways in which music and literature may be linked: music as a theme and a motif in fiction; rhetorical links between music and language in literary texts; the musician as author and the author as musician. Some questions which might be addressed include: What is the nature of the challenge faced by a composer setting a literary text to music, and what makes a song succeed? What is lost, and what is found, when a literary work is transformed into an opera? Can instrumental music tell a story, or move beyond mimesis of extra-musical sounds to convey abstract ideas? What are the limits of writing about music? How can words convey music''s effect and its affect? How do oft-repeated narratives about composers'' personal lives affect the reception of their music? This book includes eleven essays dealing in a variety of ways with the relationship between literary texts and music. It includes contributions on topics as diverse as the presence of musical notation and musical descriptions in literary texts, operatic versions of literary fiction, the potential for music to convey non-mimetic meanings, and musical devices used by literary authors and music lyricists.

In a post-nuclear, formerly United States, the one city that managed to keep functioning--by isolating itself--is about to re-join the rest of the country. Not everyone agrees with the plan, sparking a deadly spate of crimes.In today''s world, where border closures and lockdowns rapidly became normal, Sean Williams''s award-winning debut novel Metal Fatigue has taken on a new currency.First published in 1996, Metal Fatigue won Best Novel in the Science Fiction Division of the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction and was shortlisted in the Ditmar Awards.Sean Williams has been described by Aurealis Magazine as ''without doubt the premier Australian speculative fiction writer of the age''. He writes fantasy and science fiction and has co-authored Star Wars novelisations with Shane Dix and the EX series with Garth Nix. For more information visit his website at seanwilliams.com.

The first three titles from The New York Time''s Bestselling Series, Spirit Animals! Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children and the world have been changed forever. Enter the world of Erdas, where every child who comes of age must discover if they have a spirit animal, a rare bond between human and beast that bestows great powers to both. A dark force has risen from distant and long-forgotten lands, and has begun an onslaught that will ravage the world. Now the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers . . . and on you. Part engrossing book series, part action role-playing game, discover your spirit animal and join the adventure! This pack includes Spirit Animals Book One: Wild Born, Spirit Animals Book Two: Hunted, and Spirit Animals Book Three: Blood Ties

Three novelettes: a science-fiction story about a world-changing invention and its consequences, and two tales about houses that are supernaturally possessed.

Pour Luke, Mara et Jacen, la traque de Zonama Sekot est enfin terminée. Une raison de se réjouir, du moins au début. Car la réponse de la planète vivante à leur requête a de quoi doucher le plus bel enthousiasme : pas question pour elle de retourner dans une galaxie en guerre où les malheurs du plus grand nombre font la fortune de quelques privilégiés. Pendant que Luke tente d''amener Zonama Sekot à de meilleurs sentiments, les Yuuzhan Vong lancent une attaque massive contre le cœur de l''Alliance Galactique. Comme de juste, Yan et Leia, chargés de défendre une base de communications vitale, seront à la pointe du combat.