Paul McAuley was born in England in 1955 and currently lives in Scotland. He worked as a researcher in biology at various universities before lecturing in botany at St. Andrew’s University for six years, before becoming a full-time writer.

McAuley’s first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars was published in 1988 and was followed by a string of cutting edge science fiction novels, including Red Dust, Pasquale’s Angel, the Confluence trilogy, and Fairyland. In the past few years he’s focused more on sophisticated science thrillers like The Secret of Life, Whole Wide World, and Mind’s Eye.

He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. His short fiction has been collected in The King of the Hill and Little Machines. His most recent novel is Cowboy Angels. Upcoming is a new novel, The Quiet War.