Sean Williams Books in Order

This early collection gathers three dark speculative pieces, including a would-be savior, a haunted Adelaide house, and a mother facing terrifying changes in her own home. It is compact, eerie, and already recognizably Sean Williams.

An award-winning best-of collection that brings together Sean Williams stories across science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Ghosts, time slips, strange technology, and sharp little nightmares all share the same cover.

A war fought centuries ago refuses to stay buried. This far-future mystery turns old military history into a live political danger, asking what the past still costs the living.

In the walled city of Kennedy, failing technology and a looming reunion with the wider nation push society toward collapse. An investigation into violence and sabotage uncovers political fault lines that could destroy everything.

This early collection pairs the title story's unsettling take on teleportation with two more sharp speculative pieces. It is a good snapshot of Williams's interest in travel, risk, and the moment systems go wrong.

In 2069, d-mat technology lets a killer strike without leaving a body behind. Detective Marylin Blaylock hunts a murderer tied to her own past, while the prime suspect has been unconscious for three years.

A full-length early collection that shows just how wide Williams's speculative range already was. Science fiction, horror, and stranger hybrid pieces sit side by side, brisk, inventive, and a little unnerving.

When Peter Alander discovers alien towers and the powerful Gifts hidden inside them, humanity seems to catch a lucky break. It may instead be the beginning of a disaster on a planetary scale.

A short work of speculative fiction that pairs strangeness with quiet feeling. Like much of Williams's shorter work, it turns one sharp idea into something unsettling, intimate, and memorable.

Earth is gone, and the survivors are scattered. Caryl Hatzis and the engram Peter Alander race to warn what remains of humanity before the next alien assault arrives.

With annihilation closing in, Caryl, Peter, and their allies make a final gamble against the Starfish. Their only chance is to strike at the heart of the enemy before humanity runs out of time.

In the early twenty-second century, human engrams roam the stars in search of alien life. Peter Alander's discovery of the Spinners' Gifts may be the greatest breakthrough in history, or the thing that destroys Earth.

After Earth's destruction, Peter Alander and Caryl Hatzis try to warn scattered colonies about the deadly alien threat heading their way. The same Gifts that might save humanity may also have doomed it.

Sal and his allies flee across rugged country on the Old Line with a Sky Warden in pursuit. Freedom is close enough to imagine, but every step reveals new dangers and deeper secrets.

In a world ruled by Stone Mages and Sky Wardens, gifted children are taken away to be trained. On the run with his father, Sal is drawn toward magic, danger, and the first hints of a much larger conflict.

This omnibus follows Luke Skywalker and the Jedi into the Unknown Regions as they search for Zonama Sekot during the Yuuzhan Vong war. It is a quest story, a war story, and a turning point in the larger saga.

What remains of humanity is trapped between the Spinners and the genocidal Starfish. With hope collapsing, a small crew launches one last reckless mission straight into enemy territory.

Luke Skywalker and the Jedi push deeper into the Unknown Regions in search of Zonama Sekot. Hostile cultures, hidden threats, and a galaxy at war make every clue painfully hard won.

Luke, Mara, Jacen, and other Jedi set out to find the living planet Zonama Sekot. Their search is interrupted by a desperate clash involving the Imperial Remnant and the advancing Yuuzhan Vong.

The search for Zonama Sekot is finally over, but the living planet has reasons to stay away. As war crashes toward the heart of the alliance, the Jedi must win more than a location, they need its trust.

The final choices facing Sal come with a brutal price for everyone around him. To shape his own future, he must decide what kind of power he is willing to carry and what it will cost.

An isolated community, buried history, and unsettling magic collide in this entry to Williams's fractured fantasy world. As old forces stir, the past proves stranger and far more dangerous than anyone guessed.

Humanity has spread to the stars, but post-human Exarchs still control the routes that matter. When the alien artifact Geodesica appears, rebels and pilots risk everything to unlock a possible way out.

After a system is devoured by runaway nanotech, three unlikely allies hunt the truth inside Geodesica itself. Revenge, revolution, and the fight for control of the future collide at full scale.

When the Homunculus emerges from the Void Beneath, Sal and Shilly are drawn out of hiding to track it down. What begins as a hunt turns into a deeper search for family secrets and the truth behind their world.

With the Divide flooded and old allies missing, Sal and his companions head for the legendary Hanging Mountains. There they find ancient conflict, hard truths, and a darkness beginning to wake.

Haunted by warnings from the future, Shilly leads a desperate mission into the snowbound mountains. Strange powers, uneasy allies, and a rising Goddess push the whole world toward catastrophe.

This Astropolis novel widens the conflict around the Continuum and the forces struggling to control the galaxy. Ancient systems, political scheming, and the weight of deep history drive the action.

Imre Bergamasc now rules the Returned Continuum, but his grip on the galaxy is far from secure. Dissidents, saboteurs, and old enemies threaten to pull his hard-won order apart.

Two hundred years after an apparent murder plot and the fall of the Continuum, Imre Bergamasc returns. His rebirth could reshape the galaxy, if his enemies do not destroy him first.

Ros flees a drought-stricken farm where his own family may sacrifice him for rain. Guided by the voice in his head and a dangerous new magic, he crosses the desert and stumbles into a much larger fate.

Adi's spirit stays beside Ros even after her body is carried away by her clan. To save her in time, he must cross deadly sands, trust new allies, and face bandits, ghosts, and worse.

Darth Vader's secret apprentice, Starkiller, is sent to hunt down the last Jedi. The missions are deadly enough, but the real danger comes when he begins to question the side he serves.

Hundreds of thousands of years after Imre's abdication, the Host rules a galaxy that only looks peaceful. Revolution is brewing, and Imre's return may be the spark that sets everything off.

In the uneasy age of the Old Republic, Jedi, Sith, soldiers, and smugglers are forced into the same dangerous mission. Every ally has an agenda, and every mistake could start a wider war.

Juno believes Starkiller is dead, until he returns stripped of memory and shaped for violence. To win back his freedom, he must face Vader, his past, and the possibility that he is not who he thinks he is.

As Jack and Jaide try to master their Gifts, signs of fresh Evil activity appear all around Portland. A suspicious developer, a new friend, and a living Ward turn their training into a race against time.

Twins Jack and Jaide Shield arrive in Portland expecting a quiet stay with Grandma X. Instead they discover family secrets, strange powers, and a hidden fight against a force called the Evil.

With Grandma X out of action, Jack and Jaide must recover a lost Golden Card hidden inside Rourke Castle. Secret passages, old betrayals, and a dangerous new Gift make this one of their trickiest missions yet.

Ros and Adi head for the coast with a dangerous crystal they hope to be rid of forever. Betrayal, pursuit, and the lethal Scarecrow turn the journey into one last desperate chase.

In a world built on instant d-mat travel, a viral offer called Improvement sounds too good to be true. When Libby tries it, Clair is pulled into a fast, frightening conspiracy about identity, technology, and control.

War is closing in on Erdas, and Meilin is done waiting. As she heads into enemy territory with Jhi, her friends race after her, and the spirit animal bond is tested under real battlefield pressure.

The d-mat network has failed, and the world is grinding to a halt. Clair races to find the missing Q while rival movements fight over what the future should look like without the system everyone relied on.

Jack and Jaide face a rival troubletwister and their darkest journey yet. To win, they must brave the Evil dimension and untangle painful truths from their own family history.

To save her friends and maybe the wider world, Clair must enter the Yard with Q. Inside that digital realm, identity fractures, danger becomes physical, and getting the future right matters more than ever.

Best friends Odo and Eleanor dig up a talking sword while fishing for eels. Suddenly knighted and sent on a quest, they have to find out why their river is dying before dragon trouble gets much worse.

Odo, Eleanor, and Biter are back, and the dragon problem is only getting bigger. Their journey pushes them deeper into a world of old grudges, dangerous creatures, and hard lessons about courage.

A gifted teenage musician loses his hearing and has to imagine a future he never wanted. What follows is a quieter Sean Williams novel about grief, creativity, and finding another way to keep going.

In a strange house far from anywhere, Almanac and Etta are thrown together as reluctant workers. To escape, they must solve the mansion's shifting puzzle before its secrets close over them.

Seventeen tiny speculative pieces, each quick but suggestive. Matter transporters, dead worlds, ghosts, time travel, and parallel lives flash by in a collection built to be playful, strange, and concise.