Sean Williams has written at least 65 books. Their most popular book is Fatal Alliance with 25 saves with an average rating of 3.42⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Fantasy, Science fiction, and Fiction.
Adventurous, dark, and tense are their most common moods.
Sean Llewellyn Williams (born in Whyalla, South Australia on 23 May 1967) is a New York Times best selling science fiction author who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. He is the author of over eighty published short stories and thirty-nine novels, including Twinmaker and (with Garth Nix) the Troubletwisters series. He has co-written three books in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series and is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. His novelisation of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was the first novelisation of a computer game to debut at #1 on the "New York Times" bestseller list.
He studied sciences and music at Pulteney Grammar School and matriculated third in his year (1984), topping the state for Musical composition. That same year, he won the Young Composer's Award for a theme and three variations for string quartet with flute, oboe and trumpet soloists called "Release of Anger". He then went to Adelaide University and studied a Bachelor of Economics and wrote for the student newspaper On Dit. He completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Adelaide University in 2005 and was in 2010 a PhD candidate at the same institution.
Sean Williams was Chair of the SA Writers' Centre from 2001-2003, and is one of only three lifetime members of that institution. His publishers include HarperCollins Australia, HarperTeen, Allen & Unwin, Egmont UK, Del Rey, Ace, Pyr, Swift and Ticonderoga Publications. Williams has also tutored for the Clarion South Workshop, was a previous winner of the Writers of the Future contest, and is now a Judge for the same.
#3 of 3 in Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
2023 • 21 Readers • 573 pages • 3.2
2003 • 20 Readers • 413 pages • 3.4
5 Star Wars Legends
2003 • 20 Readers • 416 pages • 3.2
#0.5 of 9 in Temeraire
2009 • 14 Readers • 433 pages • 3.6
2009 • 11 Readers • 560 pages • 4
#1 of 2 in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
2008 • 11 Readers • 319 pages • 3.4
#0.5 of 2 in Cookie Cutter Superhero-Verse
2014 • 8 Readers • 450 pages • 3.4
#0 of 5 in Luna
2015 • 7 Readers • 441 pages • 4
#1 of 2 in Books of the Cataclysm
2004 • 6 Readers • 627 pages • 3.3
2012 • 6 Readers • 579 pages
2010 • 5 Readers • 3.7
2013 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 3
#1 of 3 in The Orphans Trilogy
2001 • 3 Readers • 413 pages • 5
#2 of 1 in Have Sword, Will Travel
2018 • 3 Readers • 272 pages • 3.5
2013 • 3 Readers • 5
2013 • 3 Readers • 491 pages
2019 • 2 Readers • 310 pages
#To Hold the Bridge of 6 in Abhorsen
2010 • 2 Readers • 560 pages
#0.5 - Vici of 9 in Temeraire
2009 • 2 Readers
2013 • 2 Readers
2 Readers
1996 • 1 Reader • 392 pages • 3
2014 • 1 Reader • 320 pages
#29 of 5 in Big Finish Short Trips
2009 • 1 Reader
2014 • 1 Reader
2017 • 1 Reader • 218 pages
2019 • 1 Reader
1998 • 1 Reader • 698 pages
#1 of 2 in Books of the Cataclysm
2004 • 1 Reader • 3
#3 of 4 in Star Wars: The Old Republic
2010 • 1 Reader • 443 pages
2013 • 1 Reader
2014 • 1 Reader
2020 • 1 Reader • 3.5
#2 of 2 in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
2010 • 1 Reader
#1 of 2 in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
2008 • 1 Reader
2010 • 1 Reader • 476 pages • 5
1998 • 1 Reader • 736 pages
2014 • 192 pages
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2014 • 192 pages
2013 • 314 pages
2016 • 1,440 pages