Sean Williams has been writing full time since 1990, with approximately 50 published short stories. He has won a prize in the 20th Writers of the Future Contest, been recommended by Year's Best Horror & Fantasy and Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies, and won Australia's two most prestigious SF Awards. His first solo novel, Metal Fatigue, won the Aurealis Award for Best SF Novel (and also reached the top 15 in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database's Top Books of 1996). His second, Resurrected Man, received the Ditmar Award for Best Novel of 1998.