What does Sean Williams write?
(taken from SLW’s Big Book Club speech, 2003) Everyone who’s read The Stone Mage & the Sea will know that what I write isn’t realist fiction. I write science fiction, fantasy and horror–the genre I (and others) call “speculative fiction” overall. A lot of people read speculative fiction when they were younger but stopped as they grew older. Some never tried it at all. Others may have seen “The Lord of the Rings” or “Star Wars” and figured it was all pretty much like that. From the inside looking out, that seems to me as odd as someone reading one Janet Ivanovich novel and deciding that all crime fiction isn’t for them. Or reading one crime novel in the 70s and assuming that nothing has changed in the genre since then. Additionally, SF is judged on the evidence of the inane tripe usually served up by Hollywood and TV networks, or books published half a century ago. All of this is a shame, because there’s so much more to the genre than meets the eye on big and small screens. I’ve lost c
