Background
Sean McMullen was born on December 21, 1948 in Sale, Victoria, Australia.
Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
Sean McMullen received from the University of Melbourne his Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1974 and a Master of Arts in history (with honors) in 1984.
11 Kirinari St, Bruce ACT 2617, Australia
Sean McMullen earned his graduate diploma of information science from Canberra CAE (now the University of Canberra) the in 1976.
Plenty Rd & Kingsbury Dr, Bundoora VIC 3086, Australia
In 1980 McMullen received his graduate diploma of computer science from Latrobe University.
2005
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Sean McMullen at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005.
2005
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Sean McMullen at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005.
Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
Sean McMullen received from the University of Melbourne his Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1974 and a Master of Arts in history (with honors) in 1984.
11 Kirinari St, Bruce ACT 2617, Australia
Sean McMullen earned his graduate diploma of information science from Canberra CAE (now the University of Canberra) the in 1976.
Plenty Rd & Kingsbury Dr, Bundoora VIC 3086, Australia
In 1980 McMullen received his graduate diploma of computer science from Latrobe University.
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1995
(In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Ro...)
In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Roman Centurion Vitellan set off for the twenty-first century as Imperial Rome's last human-powered time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover by just letting her grow old, but her hate pursued him across seven centuries. In 1358 he stood with a few dozen knights against an army of nine thousand to defend the life of a beautiful countess...and earned a love that would conquer death. Now Vitellan has awakened in the twenty-first century, a bewildered fugitive, betrayed and hunted in a world where minds and bodies are swapped and memories are bought, sold, and read like books. But worst of all, a deadly enemy from the fourteenth century is still very much alive - and closing in.
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1998
(Souls in the Great Machine is the first volume of Sean Mc...)
Souls in the Great Machine is the first volume of Sean McMullen's brilliant future history of the world of Greatwinter.
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1999
(The Miocene Arrow continues McMullen's story of a far-fut...)
The Miocene Arrow continues McMullen's story of a far-future Earth flung back to its pre-technological roots.
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2000
(In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world ...)
In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world two thousand years in the future, librarians fight duels to settle disputes, there is no electricity, fueled engines are banned by every major religion in Australica, humanity has split into two species, and intelligent cetezoids rule the oceans. In space, the enigmatic Mirrorsun has begun to spin. Immense solar sails are pushing vast amounts of energy into its ancient orbital band, energy that could tear it apart - or be directed down at Earth. Already the hypnotic Call has ceased, and all electrical machines have been reduced to molten metal. A religious prophet has risen and is attempting to bring together the entire continent of Australica under her rule. Meanwhile, her diesel-powered sailwing shot down by religious fanatics, the American princess Samondel is forced to set aside her trade-seeking mission and disguise herself as a student. Her only friends are a disgraced monk who is a member of the secret police and a beautiful young librarian who is a dangerous and unstable psychopath. From these unlikely friendships she must form an alliance between two continents and two species, and prevent ultimate war. Fundamentally, unexpectedly, things are changing everywhere. As catastrophe looms and civilization begins to crumble, the Dragon Librarians of Australica have just one means left to hold their world together: to kidnap every numerate person on the continent and rebuild their out-of-date human-powered computer - the Calculor.
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2001
(The Shadowmoon is a small, unobtrusive wooden schooner wh...)
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. They sail the coast, gathering useful information, passing as simple traders. But when they witness the awful power of Silverdeath, an uncontrollable doomsday weapon of awesome destructiveness, they realize they must act. But every single king, emperor, and despot covets Silverdeath's power. It will take all of their wits and more than a little luck if they hope to prevent one of these power-hungry fools from destroying the world. Their only advantage? The Shadowmoon. While it seems to be little more that a small trading vessel - too small for battle, too fat for speed - it is actually one of the most sophisticated vessels in the world, one that allows them to travel to places where no others would dare. They can only hope it will be enough to save them all before Silverdeath rains destruction across their entire world.
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2002
(Glass Dragons continues the tale of Laron, the chivalrous...)
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. Glass Dragons is a broad and complicated tale, filled with wonderful characters both new and old, woven through with low humor and great courage, built upon grand acts of heroism and love.
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2004
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2004
(At first Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian thought the huge o...)
At first Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian thought the huge oval thing that had fallen from the sky was a dragon's egg. When it opened, however, he knew that it was much, much worse. His world was being invaded by pitiless sorcerers from Lupan, who could sweep whole armies aside, and even defeat the invulnerable glass dragons. Surrender or flight were the only options... but not for Inspector Danolarian, his Wayfarer Constables, and his sweetheart, the sorceress Lavenci. Although Danolarian is no sorcerer, he's no ordinary Wayfarer either. Faced with civilization crumbling around him, and organized resistance shattered by the invincible magic of the Lupanians, he chances upon an unlikely ally and begins to fight back. It won't be easy, for he has to rally the demoralized sorcerers of Alberin, organize its terrified citizens, stay one step ahead of his own past, and, most importantly, survive a dinner party with Lavenci's mother.
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2006
(Fox and BC travel through time from the distant future to...)
Fox and BC travel through time from the distant future to 1901. Elite cadets in the Imperial Army, they are young, handsome, well-mannered... and now, mutineers. They have journeyed into the past to save the opening ceremony of Australia’s first parliament from being bombed. If the cadets fail, thousands will die, sparking a century of total war. However, to change the destiny of the world, the young warriors will need the help of three ordinary teenagers...
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2007
(Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-U...)
Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen, Kim Wilkins, Sara Douglass, A. Bertram Chandler, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Stephen Dedman, Trudi Canavan, John Birmingham, Margo Lanagan, Janeen Webb, Isobelle Carmody, and many others.
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2008
(Swords, sorcery, and time travel are a strange and danger...)
Swords, sorcery, and time travel are a strange and dangerous mix Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian saw his world's future and did not approve. The inspector knew about time travel because he had once met his future self. What he did not know was that he would be abducted into the future, and wind up on the run with a constable who had shape-shifted into a cat. Danolarian would also find himself marooned in the ancient past, where he would have to recover his time engine from five thousand naked, psychopathic horsemen. A faulty repair plunges him another three million years back in time, to a world of strange, beautiful people living idyllic lives in splendid castles. But things are not always as they seem. After being attacked, he learns from his unlikely rescuer that time travel is not entirely real. A furious Danolarian returns to his own time, planning revenge against the time engine's true builders.
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2008
(It’s 1901, and Battle Commander Liore has travelled back ...)
It’s 1901, and Battle Commander Liore has travelled back in time to stop a war that will rage for over a hundred years. But time itself is against her. Whenever she changes history, a new beginning to the war emerges and the world once again teeters on the brink of disaster. To make matters worse, Barry the Bag has stolen Liore’s plasma rifle, the most dangerous weapon in the world. The owner is on his trail, and she doesn’t take prisoners. Can anything prevent Liore from risking the world’s future for the sake of revenge?
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2011
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2013
(Sean predicts practical electronic telepathy by about 203...)
Sean predicts practical electronic telepathy by about 2030. Whether electronic or biological, however, it will bring the same issues in its luggage... Even magic cannot argue with mathematics.
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2013
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2017
(In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual C...)
In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world in the year's best short stories. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes.
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Sean McMullen was born on December 21, 1948 in Sale, Victoria, Australia.
Sean McMullen received from the University of Melbourne his Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1974 and a Master of Arts in history (with honors) in 1984. He also earned his graduate diploma in information science from Canberra CAE (now University of Canberra) in 1976. In 1980 McMullen received his graduate diploma in computer science from Latrobe University.
Sean McMullen worked as a laboratory assistant at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkville in 1969-1970. Between 1975 and 1980 he worked as a librarian at various libraries. In 1981 he became a computer systems analyst at Bureau of Meteorology.
Sean McMullen became a science fiction professional while an undergraduate, singing in an SF opera staged by the Victorian State Opera. Around then he was also earning money from fantasy, singing ballads in Melbourne’s folk clubs. His career as an author took off when he won the writing competition at the 1985 World SF Convention. All the while he had a day job in scientific computing at the Bureau of Meteorology.
In the 1990’s Sean McMullen began to get serious recognition with his first novel "Voices in the Light". 1999 saw the release of his signature steampunk novel of psychopathic librarians and human powered computers "Souls in the Great Machine". Besides, he was also a pioneer in electronic publication.
McMullen helped define Australian genre fiction with the first histories of SF, fantasy and horror by Australians. He co-authored the award winning "Strange Constellations: A Critical History of Australian SF" with Russell Blackford and Van Ikin, and his article "Shot in Australia", in the anthology Projections, was the first history of Australian SF for the screen.
Early in 2000's he completed his "Greatwinter and Moonworlds" series of novels. Due to the demands of his PhD, increased responsibilities at work, and his duties as a karate instructor at Melbourne University, Sean McMullen decided to focus his SF for adults on short fiction, and branch into SF and fantasy for Young Adults.
Besides, he contributed to "Lothian’s Quentaris" series with his novel "The Ancient Hero" in 2004, and since then he has had two dozen science fiction and educational novels and stories for children and young adults published, mostly in Australia. These include the the six part children’s series "The Warlocks’s Child", written with Paul Collins, and the Young Adult novels "Before the Storm" and "Changing Yesterday".
In 2010 Sean adapted and directed a revival of Norma Hemming’s pioneering feminist play SF play of 1958, The Matriarchy of Renok for the World SF Convention.
In 2013 his story "Hard Cases" was made into a short film, directed by Terry Shepherd and starring Mike Bishop, Lliam Amor and Eve Morey. Sean McMullen made a cameo appearance as Mr Guard.
In 2014 Sean quit his computing job and became a full time author. In the same year he revived his acting and musical skills to do a series of readings of his stories. He continues to teach at the Melbourne University Karate Club.
Sean McMullen is best known as an Australian science fiction author with 25 books and more than 90 stories published in over a dozen languages. McMullen won the writing competition at the 1985 World SF Convention. His other awards include Ditmar awards in 1989 for "The Colors of the Masters", in 1991 for "While the Gate is Open", in 1992 for "The Dominant Style", in 1993 for "Call to the Edge", and in 1996 for "Mirror Sun Rising". He was also the recipient of the William Atheling awards in 1992, 1993, and 1996. His story "Voice of Steel" won the Nova Fantastyka Readers Award. Moreover, in 2011 his steampunk story "Eight Miles" was runner up for Best Novelette in the Hugo Awards.
In addition to writing, Sean McMullen is a sportsman and was awarded a 4th dan black belt in 2018.
(The Shadowmoon is a small, unobtrusive wooden schooner wh...)
2002(In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world ...)
2001(Glass Dragons continues the tale of Laron, the chivalrous...)
2004(Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-U...)
2008(In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Ro...)
1998(In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual C...)
(Swords, sorcery, and time travel are a strange and danger...)
2008(Souls in the Great Machine is the first volume of Sean Mc...)
1999(It’s 1901, and Battle Commander Liore has travelled back ...)
2011(At first Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian thought the huge o...)
2006(The Miocene Arrow continues McMullen's story of a far-fut...)
2000(Fox and BC travel through time from the distant future to...)
2007(Sean predicts practical electronic telepathy by about 203...)
2013Sean McMullen has been a member of the Australian Computer Society, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Sean McMullen married Mary Davies in 1973, but the couple divorced in 1978. He married his second wife Patricia Smyth in 1986. Sean McMullen has a daughter.
