Sean McMullen is one of Australia’s leading SF and fantasy authors. His works span genres and styles ranging from epic fantasy to steampunk, and reach out to audiences of all ages. He has won fifteen Australian and international awards, has had over twenty books and eighty stories published in more than a dozen languages, and has been a guest of honour at many Australian and international conventions. He has published seven books with Ford Street Publishing: Before the Storm and Changing Yesterday for young adults, and The Warlord’s Child series (with Paul Collins). Sean was runner up in the 2011 Hugo Awards for his novelette Eight Miles.

In Ford Street’s ’07 debut, Before the Storm, we were introduced to BC (Liore) and Fox, two young soldiers from an alternate 21st century who travelled back in time to prevent the bombing of the first Australian parliament and the century of war that would follow. They succeeded, with a little help from Emily, Daniel and con-artist and thief extraordinaire, Barry the Bag. But no sooner had they achieved their objective than an alternate beginning to the Century War came into being. In Changing Yesterday the fight to save the future continues. - Jenny Mounfield