Dix, Shane
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1960- ) Welsh-born author in Australia who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Moment" in Thyme Fiction 4 (anth 1990) edited by Peter McNamara, but who has been in Australia for most of his life, where he has written novels exclusively to date in collaboration with Sean Williams, beginning with the first volume of the apparently aborted Cogal sequence, The Unknown Soldier (1995) with Sean Williams, and then concentrating on four further series: the Evergence trilogy beginning with Evergence: The Prodigal Sun (1999) with Sean Williams, a pleasantly nostalgic Space Opera with much old-fashioned gear and a failing galactic empire to support or not; the Orphans trilogy beginning with Echoes of Earth (2002) with Sean Williams, in which First Contact with a complex Alien civilization severely shakes the triumphalist course of human history; a Star Wars: New Jedi Order trilogy [see Checklist]; and Geodesica, beginning with Geodesica: Ascent (2005) with Sean Williams, in which humans revolt against Posthumans who control Faster Than Light technology. [JC]
Shane Dix
born Wales: 1960
works
series
Evergence
- The Unknown Soldier (Aphelion Publications, 1995) with Sean Williams [only volume in the Cogal series: wholly rewritten as the first volume of the Evergence sequence below: pb/Tim Ide]
- Evergence: The Prodigal Sun (New York: Ace Books, 1999) with Sean Williams [Evergence: pb/Bob Warner]
- The Prodigal Sun: Evergence 1 (Sydney, New South Wales: HarperCollins, 2000) [vt of the above: Evergence: pb/Bob Warner]
- The Dying Light (Sydney, New South Wales: HarperCollins, 2000) with Sean Williams [Evergence: pb/Bob Warner]
- Evergence: The Dying Light (New York: Ace Books, 2000) with Sean Williams [vt of the above: Evergence: pb/Bob Warner]
- A Dark Imbalance (New York: Ace Books, 2001) with Sean Williams [Evergence: pb/Bob Warner]
Orphans
- Echoes of Earth (New York: Ace Books, 2002) with Sean Williams [Orphans: pb/Chris Moore]
- Orphans of Earth (New York: Ace Books, 2003) with Sean Williams [Orphans: pb/Chris Moore]
- Heirs of Earth (New York: Ace Books, 2004) with Sean Williams [Orphans: pb/Chris Moore]
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order
- Remnant (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2003) with Sean Williams [tie to Star Wars: Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: pb/Jon Foster]
- Refugee (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2003) with Sean Williams [tie to Star Wars: Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: pb/Jon Foster]
- Reunion (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2003) with Sean Williams [tie to Star Wars: Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: pb/Jon Foster]
- Force Heretic (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003) with Sean Williams [omni of the above three: tie to Star Wars: Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: hb/Jon Foster]
Geodesica
- Geodesica 1: Ascent (Sydney, New South Wales: HarperCollins, 2005) with Sean Williams [Geodesica: pb/Chris Moore]
- Geodesica 1: Descent (Sydney, New South Wales: HarperCollins, 2006) with Sean Williams [Geodesica: pb/Chris Moore]
- Geodesica – Ascent and Descent Omnibus (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006) with Sean Williams [omni of the above two: Geodesica: hb/Chris Moore]
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