“Twinmaker took my breath away. A triumph of thrilling action and vivid
imagination.”-Alison Goodman, author of EON and EONA
“A mind-blowing adventure about what it means to be human, and what it means
to find ourselves.”-Scott Westerfeld, author of UGLIES and LEVIATHAN
“A gripping YA thriller, coming of age and love story that transports the
reader to a future that looks a whole lot better than it really is …
Highly Recommended.”-Garth Nix, author of SABRIEL
“Twinmaker asks smart questions without easy answers, and presents a future
so simultaneously wonderful and terrible you can only believe in it–and
maybe wish you could be there, too. A thrilling, existential head trip
worthy of my favorite anime, I couldn’t stop reading this book. More
importantly, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.”-Alaya Dawn Johnson, author
of THE SUMMER PRINCE
“In a time when every second book seems to be a dour dystopia TWINMAKER is a
breath of fresh air. Not just because it’s hugely fun, or because it’s so
smart, but because behind its vision of a world in which distance has been
eliminated by matter transportation lies a book urgently engaged with the
ways social media and technology are transforming us, and unafraid of their
possibilities. I loved it.”
“Williams marries accessibly explored moral ramifications of future
technologies-a hallmark of mature science fiction-with a strong, capable
teen heroine and heart-pounding action” -KIRKUS
In the weeks ahead I’m going to be concentrating on two things: writing Hollowgirl (aka Fall) and touring Spirit Animals 3: Blood Ties and Troubletwisters 4: The Missing (aka Missing, Presumed Evil) with Garth Nix. I’ll also be editing the final pages of Crashland/Crash, when they come through. But that doesn’t mean this site will […]
Trigger warning: suicide. (Some would argue that every d-mat story is triggering . . .) People commit suicide using d-mat all the time. Or at least, they try to. In theory it should be easy: just step into a booth and send yourself nowhere. But what does “nowhere” mean? Data doesn’t vanish just because it […]
There have been many distractions keeping me from Hollowgirl this week, and all of them have been good! First up, news this morning that I’ve sold a new Twinmaker story to Clarkesworld, one of THE best SF markets around. “The Cuckoo” will appear in their April issue. I’ll post a link when it’s up. (There’s […]
The other day io9 ran a six-word story thread to which I was compelled to contribute, because why not? Harder than a haiku, particularly when at least one of the words has to identify your story as involving matter transmitters. As of course all the best stories do. So here’s what I wrote, tweaked a […]
This is the quickest possible post to apologise for being a bit slow on the posting front. It’s Mad March here in Adelaide, which means that everything that can possibly here must happen at the same time. Specifically for me Adelaide Writers’ Week (I’m on the advisory committee), WOMADelaide and the Unsound Festival. They’re keeping […]