Abstract
Sean Williams is a South Australian author who has published more than 50 books and well over 100 short stories for adults, young adults and children. Most of his work is science fiction or fantasy, and he has created several series, including Twinmaker (3 volumes) and The Books of the Change (10 volumes). He often co-authors with writers such as Garth Nix and Shane Dix. Sean is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar and Aurealis Awards for science fiction and has appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list.I got to know Sean when he joined the staff of the English and Creative Writing department at Flinders University in 2019. I was intrigued to hear about Impossible Music (2019), a novel about a young musician who suddenly loses his hearing, and I read it with great enjoyment as soon as I could get my hands on it. When I heard him say in a public conversation that he read Jane Austen for inspiration when writing a realist novel (a new genre for him) I approached him and suggested we talk. I hurriedly read a very small fraction of his other output – the first novels in the Twinmaker and Change series, and Magic Dirt, a book of short stories – in preparation, and we met in his office in December 2019.
Highlights
Sean Williams is a South Australian author who has published more than 50 books and well over 100 short stories for adults, young adults and children
I got to know Sean when he joined the staff of the English and Creative Writing department at Flinders University in 2019
I was intrigued to hear about Impossible Music (2019), a novel about a young musician who suddenly loses his hearing, and I read it with great enjoyment as soon as I could get my hands on it
Summary
GD: Sometimes in Twinmaker, you did that by having some people living in that other world, I mean that was part of the plot as well, but you could see these things that were no longer of any use, like cars ... SW: Wells didn’t ever use the matter-transmitter but he did read Edward Page Mitchell, who was an amazing editorial and short story writer in America at the time.
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