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Paul McAuley


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Paul McAuley is the author of more than twenty books, including science-fiction, thriller, and crime novels, several collections of short stories, a Doctor Who novella, and an anthology of stories about popular music, which he co-edited with Kim Newman. His fiction has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell award, the Sidewise Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the British Fantasy Award for best short story.

Before he went over to the dark side and became a full-time writer, Paul  worked as a research biologist in various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in botany at St Andrews University. His chief research interest was symbioses between unicellular algae and coelenterates, including green hydra, sea anemones, and reef-forming corals. Paul is  still a huge fan of all things to do with science, and spend too much time tweeting about weird and wonderful stuff as UnlikelyWorlds; Time magazine listed him as one of their top 140 most interesting tweeters in 2013.

Paul lives in North London, and haven't yet walked down every street in the A-Z. But is trying.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror
 
Series
Four Hundred Billion Stars
   1. Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)
   2. Secret Harmonies (1989)
     aka Of the Fall
   3. Eternal Light (1991)
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Confluence
   1. Child of the River (1997)
   2. Ancients of Days (1998)
   3. Shrine of Stars (1999)
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Quiet War
   1. The Quiet War (2008)
   2. Gardens of the Sun (2009)
   Stories From The Quiet War (2011)
   3. In the Mouth of the Whale (2012)
   4. Evening's Empires (2013)
   Life After Wartime (2013)
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Novels
   Red Dust (1993)
   Pasquale's Angel (1994)
   Fairyland (1995)
   Making History (2000)
   The Secret of Life (2001)
   Whole Wide World (2001)
   White Devils (2004)
   Mind's Eye (2005)
   Players (2007)
   Cowboy Angels (2007)
   Austral (2017)
   War of the Maps (2020)
   Beyond the Burn Line (2022)
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Collections
   The King of the Hill (1991)
   The Invisible Country (1996)
   Futures: Four Novellas (2001) (with others)
   Little Machines (2004)
   A Very British History (2013)
   Gene Wars / Rocket Boy (2014)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
   In Dreams (1986) (with Kim Newman)
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Paul McAuley recommends
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The Last Blade Priest (2022)
W P Wiles
"W.P. Wiles embraces and transforms the archetypes of epic fantasy with impressive ingenuity. Vivid, vital, humane and deftly told, The Last Blade Priest's all-too-human characters and its world of dying gods, berserker cults and devastating superhuman powers will haunt your imagination long after you've turned the last page."
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Something More Than Night (2021)
Kim Newman
"A monstrously inventive romp through the backlots, cults and conspiracies of Old Hollyweird, in the company of the best odd-couple pairing since Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon."
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The Human (2020)
(Rise of the Jain, book 3)
Neal Asher
"Neal Asher's coruscating mix of epic space opera, weaponised Darwinism and high-stakes intrigue channels the primal flame of deep-core science fiction."

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Anthologies containing stories by Paul McAuley
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The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 7 (2023)
(Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, book 7)
edited by
Allan Kaster
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Burning Brightly (2021)
50 Years of Novacon
edited by
Ian Whates

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Awards
Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (1988) : Four Hundred Billion Stars
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (1992) : Eternal Light
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (1995) : Pasquale's Angel
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1995) : Fairyland
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book winner (1996) : Fairyland
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1997) : Fairyland
Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (1998) : The Invisible Country
British Science Fiction Association Best Novel nominee (2001) : The Secret of Life
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2002) : The Secret of Life
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2005) : White Devils
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2005) : White Devils
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2006) : Mind's Eye
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2009) : The Quiet War
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2010) : Gardens of the Sun
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2014) : Evening's Empires
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2017) : Into Everywhere
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2018) : Austral


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