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Ros, a young boy living on a drought stricken farm, makes friends with the invisible Escher, who begins to train him in the magic of the Change. Then Kuller, a sinister weather worker, comes to the farm to bring rain, and Escher warns Ros that his life is in danger. Desperate to escape, Ros steals a camel from a local inn and heads for the road.
On the road he meets a Clan of nomads, among them Adi, a girl of his age who takes him under her wing. When Adi is snatched by the spider like Crabblers, Ros uses his new magic skills to find her, but is unable to stop her from plunging off a cliff. Ros is grief stricken, and soon seems to be haunted by her ghost.
But enlisting the help of a Stone Mage to exorcise the ghost only leads Ros to question everything that has happened on his journey. He must decide who is telling the truth, and who his real friends are.
Age: 10 14
RRP: $14.99
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| ISBN 13: | 9780732284749 |
| ISBN 10: | 0732284740 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Dimensions: | 197 x 130mm |
| Released: | 03/03/2008 |
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Sean Williams lives in the heart of the city of Adelaide, South Australia, and started writing in 1990, devoting thirty to forty hours a week on top of various part-time jobs. He has more than a hundred finished short stories and six novels completed, some of which have been published and some of which have won awards or prizes.
Sean Williams has been writing full-time since 1999, ten years after he wrote his first short story. He has been nominated thirty times for the major Australian awards (Ditmar, Aurealis & McNamara) and has won ten times. Jack Dann has described him as "One of the hottest writers in the country ... a major Australian talent", and added in the bio accompanying his opening story in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, Dreaming Down-Under, that he "cooks a mean curry."
He lives in the centre of Adelaide, South Australia, where he was Chair of the SA Writer's Centre from 2001-2003. For a change of pace, he enjoys DJing any chance he can get.
Sean recently finished working on three series simultaneously: The Books of the Change (a solo fantasy trilogy generously supported by the Australia Council), the Orphans series (a post-Spike space opera co-written with Shane Dix, and the Force Heretic trilogy (set in the Star Wars: New Jedi Order universe and also co-written with Shane Dix).
Future series include the Books of the Cataclysm, a prequel/sequel series set in the same universe as the Books of the Change, and a diptych of science fiction novels(Geodesica) in collaboration with Shane Dix.
As well as novels, Sean has had over 60 short stories published in a variety of places around the world. "Ghosts of the Fall" was first published in Volume IX of the annual anthology series of the Writers of the Future Contest, in which it was a prize-winner. Three stories were reprinted in the Strahan and Byrne Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy series. "Going Nowhere" appeared in The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories, "A Map of the Mines of Barnath" was chosen for inclusion in Centaurus, a collection of the best short Australian SF published in the last 25 years, and "Evermore" was reprinted in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best SF 17 (2000). His work has been translated into French, Japanese, Hebrew, Russian and Polish, and collected in the Ditmar Award-winning New Adventures in Sci-Fi (1999) and A View Before Dying (1998), both from Ticonderoga Publications, and Doorway to Eternity (MirrorDanse Books, 1994).
He won two Aurealis Awards in 1996, one of them for Best Horror Short Story ("Passing the Bone"). The other was for Best SF Novel (Metal Fatigue, reprinted by the UK's Swift Publishers in hardcover in 1999). His 1998 novel The Resurrected Man won the Ditmar Award for Long Fiction for that year. He was short-listed for the SA Great Literature Award in 1999, and received it in 2000.
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