verse. It strikes me as a resonant note on which to end this story, and to start the next.
"I rose again—no matter how —
A woman, and a deeper fall—
I move amongst my people now
The most degraded of them all.
But, if in centuries to come,
I live once more and claim my own,
I'll see my subjects blind and dumb
Before they set me on a throne."
About the Author
Sean Williams' first book was published in 1994, a chapbook called Doorway to Eternity containing two short stories and a novella. Since then, he has delivered three more collections and twenty-two novels aimed at adult, young adult and child readers around the world. His work has been published in numerous languages, on-line, and in spoken word editions, and has appeared more than once on the New York Times-bestseller lists. Multiple winner of Australia's speculative fiction awards, in the science fiction, fantasy and horror categories, he also works in the Doctor Who and Star Wars universes and has a long list of collaborations with friend Shane Dix behind him. He is a former winner and now a judge of the international Writers of the Future Contest.
He lives with his family in Adelaide, which Salman Rushdie described as "an ideal setting for a Stephen King novel" and Jules Verne once claimed was the prettiest city in Australia.
You can access more information and his LiveJournal via www.seanwilliams.com .
"I rose again—no matter how —
A woman, and a deeper fall—
I move amongst my people now
The most degraded of them all.
But, if in centuries to come,
I live once more and claim my own,
I'll see my subjects blind and dumb
Before they set me on a throne."
About the Author
Sean Williams' first book was published in 1994, a chapbook called Doorway to Eternity containing two short stories and a novella. Since then, he has delivered three more collections and twenty-two novels aimed at adult, young adult and child readers around the world. His work has been published in numerous languages, on-line, and in spoken word editions, and has appeared more than once on the New York Times-bestseller lists. Multiple winner of Australia's speculative fiction awards, in the science fiction, fantasy and horror categories, he also works in the Doctor Who and Star Wars universes and has a long list of collaborations with friend Shane Dix behind him. He is a former winner and now a judge of the international Writers of the Future Contest.
He lives with his family in Adelaide, which Salman Rushdie described as "an ideal setting for a Stephen King novel" and Jules Verne once claimed was the prettiest city in Australia.
You can access more information and his LiveJournal via www.seanwilliams.com .
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