To celebrate the upcoming CoNZealand 78th World Science Fiction Convention being held in New Zealand this year, Simon Litten and I have written a sixty-five page History of New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Simon is one...
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ReAnimus 2017:
“McMullen … is a cannier sf writer than Phillip K. Dick ever was … working in a genre that has developed a great deal more self-identity …” (Interzone)
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The Guardians (Warlock’s Child Book 6) (with Paul Collins, Ford Street Publications, September 2015)
The Dracondan dragons, once invincible, now lie helpless on a mountain as a human army closes in to kill them.
It has a cast of characters you love and hate, and a story to make you impatient to read what happens next – Susan Whelan, Kids Book Review
Voyage to Morticas (Warlock’s Child Book 5) with Paul Collins, (Ford Street Publications, August 2015)
Dantar is able to shapeshift into a dragon, yet he still thinks like a rebellious teenager.
Trial By Dragons (Warlock’s Child Book 4) (with Paul Collins, Ford Street Publications, July 2015)
Betrayed by both her friend and her father, and on the run from just about everyone, Velza faces trial by a jury of dragons.
ReAnimus 2017:
“McMullen … is a cannier sf writer than Phillip K. Dick ever was … working in a genre that has developed a great deal more self-identity …” (Interzone)
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Ghosts of Engines Past contains 12 steampunk stories, including Sean’s Hugo Award runner up, Eight Miles.
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The 15 stories in Colours of the Soul are Sean’s near future science fiction. Order from Reanimus or Amazon.
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“A short story collection by the author of the The Greatwinter Trilogy and the Moonworld series, Walking to the Moon includes many of Sean McMullen’s critically-acclaimed short fiction together, featuring a never-before-seen original story set in the world of Greatwinter, “Dragon Black.” With an introduction by Jack Dann, the author of The Man Who Melted.” from the Amazon introduction.
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Sean’s first collection, featuring the best of his early writing. Included are his pioneering steampunk story of music and audio time travel
… stylish and elegant … Australian science fiction at its best … Aidan Doyle, Voiceworks
In this glittering, dynamic and exotic world two thousand years in the future, librarians fight duels to settle disputes, there is no electricity, fuelled engines are banned by every major religion in Australica, humanity has split into two species
… ‘A captivating conclusion to a brilliant series.’ Booklist, (starred Review)
Book 3 – The Greatwinter series
The Miocene Arrow (Book 2: Greatwinter) (Tor, 2000), – Winner Aurealis Award 2001. Locus Recommended Reading, 2001, – Locus Readers Poll, 23rd.
In a Fortieth Century America of ancient kingdoms and opulent courts, Hereditary engineering guilds and rigid class distinction..
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Sean’s signature steampunk novel of psychopathic librarians and human powered computers, Souls in the Great Machine.
Gives a new moral dimension to the old SF theme of power and knowledge, and the power that can be gained by those with secret knowledge of the working of the world – Interzone
MIRRORSUN RISING (Aphelion, 1995) ~ SF novel, Ditmar Award winner, Aurealis Award nominee – rewritten as part of Souls in the Great Machine
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Now part of Souls of the Great Machine, a Science Fiction Novel from the Greatwinter series. a comprehensively imagined future … creations both terrifying and mundane, both bizarre and believeable … His world of Greatwinter is both tangibly present and beautifully imagined – David A. Smith, New York Review of Science Fiction
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The Time Engine (Moonworlds Book 4)
The Time Engine completes the Moonworlds series by chronicling how the doomsday magic unleashed in Book 1 is finally brought under control.
McMullen’s skillful blend of fantasy and sf … makes this one of the better cross-genre series in speculative fiction – Booklist
Sean’s third Moonworlds novel (after 2004’s Glass Dragons ), sorcerers from the nearby planet Lupanar invade the world of Scalticar, traveling in cylinders that include such familiar Wellsian trappings as tripod fighting machines equipped with heat rays. [from Publishers Weekly Introduction]
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Glass Dragons continues the tale of Laron, the chivalrous 700-year-old vampire, the appallingly dangerous and beautiful Velander, and the long-suffering Terikel, as they investigate a secret project of arcane magic, a magic so dangerous it could destroy their world. A project which threatens to fall into the wrong hands.
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Now McMullen delivers Voyage of the Shadowmoon, a fantasy epic of daunting skill and scope.
The Shadowmoon is a small, unobtrusive wooden schooner whose passengers and crew are much more than they seem: Ferran, the Shadowmoon’s lusty captain who dreams of power; Roval, the warrior-sorcerer; Velander and Terikel, priestesses of a nearly extinct sect; and the chivalrous vampire Laron, who has been trapped in a fourteen-year-old body for seven hundred years. – Amazon
The Guardians (Warlock’s Child Book 6) (with Paul Collins, Ford Street Publications, September 2015)
The Dracondan dragons, once invincible, now lie helpless on a mountain as a human army closes in to kill them.
It has a cast of characters you love and hate, and a story to make you impatient to read what happens next – Susan Whelan, Kids Book Review
Voyage to Morticas (Warlock’s Child Book 5) with Paul Collins, (Ford Street Publications, August 2015)
Dantar is able to shapeshift into a dragon, yet he still thinks like a rebellious teenager.
Trial By Dragons (Warlock’s Child Book 4) (with Paul Collins, Ford Street Publications, July 2015)
Betrayed by both her friend and her father, and on the run from just about everyone, Velza faces trial by a jury of dragons.
The Iron Claw (Warlock’s Child Book 3) (with Paul Collins, Ford Street Publications, June 2015). The warlock Calcaras wants to revive the ancient, forbidden magic of dragons.
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Dragonfall Mountain (Warlock’s Child Book 2) (with Paul Collins, Ford Street Publications, May2015)
The warship Invincible has been attacked and sunk, and Dantar’s only chance of escape from his enemies is through the foul sewers of Savaria.
The Elektron Mill ( Parsec 2, August 2021)Â The ancient Greeks knew about static electricity and...
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If you discovered that you were still a chile, would you really want the chance to grow up into something really confronting?
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A sound recording was made nearly three hundred years before the first phonographs. Why would some people find this so upsetting?
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I have put up the full text of two pieces of my recent short fiction:’Terminalia’,...
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