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Paul J. McAuley

British botanist and science fiction author (born 1955)

Paul J. McAuley
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British botanist and science fiction author (born 1955)

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Paul J. McAuley (born 23 April 1955) is a British botanist and science fiction author. A biologist by training, McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction. His novels deal with themes such as biotechnology, alternative history/reality, and space travel.

McAuley began writing science fiction with the far-future space-opera novel Four Hundred Billion Stars, its sequel Eternal Light, and the planetary-colony adventure Of the Fall. The novel Red Dust, set on a far-future Mars colonized by the Chinese, is a planetary romance featuring many emerging technologies and science fiction motifs: nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, personality downloads, and virtual reality. His Confluence series, set in an even more distant future (about ten million years from now), is one of multiple novels that use Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory as a theme; in this theory, the universe seems to be evolving toward a maximum degree of complexity and consciousness.{{cite web | access-date=2015-10-23}} Around the same time, McAuley published the novel Pasquale's Angel, set in an alternative Italian Renaissance; it features Niccolò Machiavegli (Machiavelli) and Leonardo da Vinci as major characters.

McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings: the novel Fairyland describes a dystopian, war-torn Europe where genetically engineered "dolls" are used as disposable slaves. Since 2001, he has produced several techno-thriller novels based on science fiction, such as The Secret of Life, Whole Wide World, and White Devils.

Four Hundred Billion Stars, his first novel, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.{{cite web | access-date=2009-05-16 | access-date=2009-05-16 | access-date=2009-05-16

Bibliography

Novels

  • Red Dust. London: Gollancz, 1993.
  • Pasquale's Angel. London: Gollancz, 1994. — Clarke and British Fantasy Awards nominee, 1995,{{cite web | access-date=2009-05-16
  • Fairyland. London: Gollancz, 1995. — BSFA Award nominee, 1995; Clarke Award winner, 1996; Campbell Award winner, 1997
  • The Secret of Life. London: Voyager, 2001. — BSFA Award nominee, 2001;{{cite web | access-date=2009-05-16 | access-date=2009-05-16
  • Whole Wide World. London: Voyager, 2002.
  • White Devils. London: Simon & Schuster, 2004. — Campbell Award nominee, 2005{{cite web | access-date=2009-05-16
  • Mind's Eye. London: Simon & Schuster, 2005. — Campbell Award nominee, 2006{{cite web | access-date=2015-10-23
  • Players. London: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
  • Cowboy Angels. London: Gollancz, 2007.
  • Austral: London: Gollancz, 2017.
  • War of the Maps. London: Gollancz, 2020.
  • Beyond the Burn Line. London: Gollancz, 2022.
  • Loss Protocol. London: Gollancz, 2026.

;Four Hundred Billion Stars series

  • [Philip K. Dick Award winner, 1988]
  • Secret Harmonies. London: Gollancz, 1989. . (Published in the United States as Of the Fall)
  • Eternal Light. London: Gollancz, 1991. — BSFA Award nominee, 1991{{cite web | access-date=2009-05-16 | access-date=2009-05-16 ;The Confluence series
  • Child of the River. London: Gollancz, 1997.
  • Ancients of Days. London: Gollancz, 1998.
  • Shrine of Stars. London: Gollancz, 1999.
  • Confluence - The Trilogy. London: Gollancz, 2014. {{cite web |access-date=2013-10-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080201/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-confluence-the-trilogy-cover-art-and-synopsis-reveal |archive-date=4 March 2016

;The Quiet War series

  • The Quiet War. London, Gollancz, 2008. — Clarke Award nominee, 2009{{cite web | access-date=2009-05-16
  • Gardens of the Sun. London: Gollancz, 2009.
  • In the Mouth of the Whale. London: Gollancz, 2012.
  • Evening's Empires: London, Gollancz, 2013. {{cite web |access-date=2013-04-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006115642/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-evenings-empires-cover-art-and-synopsis-revealed |archive-date=6 October 2013
  • Stories from the Quiet War (2011), a collection of five stories:
    • "Making History", first published in 2000
    • "Incomers", first published in 2008
    • "Second Skin", first published in 1997 in Asimov's
    • "Reef", first published in 2000
    • "Karyl's War", first published in this collection
  • Blade and Bone (2023) (novella)

;The Jackaroo series

  • Something Coming Through: London, Gollancz, 2015.{{cite web |access-date=2013-12-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207053058/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-something-coming-through-and-into-everywhere-synopsis-reveal |archive-date=7 December 2013
  • Into Everywhere. London: Gollancz, 2016.
  • Dust (short story) (2006)
  • Winning Peace (short story) (2007)
  • City of the Dead (short story) (2008)
  • Adventure (short story) (2008)
  • Crimes and Glory (short story) (2009)
  • Bruce Springsteen (short story) (2012)
  • The Man (short story) (2012)
  • Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was (short story) (2016)
  • Maryon's Gift (short story) (2022)

Short fiction

  • The King of the Hill. London: Gollancz, 1991.
  1. The King of the Hill
  2. Karl and the Ogre
  3. Transcendence
  4. The Temporary King
  5. Exiles
  6. Little Ilya and Spider and Box
  7. The Airs of Earth
  8. The Heirs of Earth
  • The Invisible Country. London: Gollancz, 1996. — Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 1998{{cite web | access-date=2009-05-16
  1. Gene Wars (1991)
  2. Prison Dreams
  3. Recording Angel (1995)
  4. Dr. Luther's Assistant
  5. The Temptation of Dr Stein (1996)Set in the same timeline than Pasquale's Angel (1994).
  6. Children of the Revolution
  7. The True History of Doctor Pretorius
  8. Slaves
  • Little Machines. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2005.
  1. The Two Dicks
  2. Residuals
  3. 17
  4. All Tomorrow's Parties
  5. Interstitial
  6. How We Lost the Moon, a True Story by Frank W. Allen
  7. Under Mars
  8. Danger: Hard Hack Area
  9. The Madness of Crowds
  10. The Secret of My Success
  11. The Proxy
  12. I Spy
  13. The Rift
  14. Alien TV
  15. Before the Flood
  16. A Very British History
  17. Cross Roads Blues
  • A Very British History. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2013.{{cite web |access-date=2013-03-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319091814/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-a-very-british-history-cover-art-unveiled |archive-date=19 March 2013 |access-date=2013-03-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303060505/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-announces-a-very-british-history-table-of-contents-unveiled |archive-date=3 March 2013
  1. Little Ilya and Spider and Box
  2. The Temporary King
  3. Cross Roads Blues
  4. Gene Wars
  5. Prison Dreams
  6. Children of the Revolution
  7. Recording Angel
  8. Second Skin
  9. All Tomorrow's Parties
  10. 17
  11. Sea Change, With Monsters
  12. How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen
  13. A Very British History
  14. The Two Dicks
  15. Meat
  16. Rocket Boy
  17. The Thought War
  18. City of the Dead
  19. Little Lost Robot
  20. Shadow Life
  21. The Choice ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.
YearTitleFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes200020032011201220152023
Making HistoryMaking History. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2000.Novella
The Eye of the TygerThe Eye of the Tyger. Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2003. (a Doctor Who novella)Novella
The ChoiceThe Jackaroo series
Antarctica Starts Here
Wild Honey
Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the AnthropoceneGravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene (2023)Novella
  • "A Brief Guide to Other Histories"
  • "Dead Men Walking". Asimov's Science Fiction. 30 (3): 80–93. March 2006.
  • "Edna Sharrow"
  • "Inheritance"
  • "Planet of Fear" (2015) in Old Venus (anthology)
  • "Rocket Boy"
  • Set in the Jackaroo universe:
    • "Winning Peace" (2016), in the collection Galactic Empires by Neil Clarke.
    • "Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was" (2016), published as a freebie on Tor.com.

Non-fiction

——————— ;Bibliography notes

Critical studies and reviews of McAuley's work

  • Reviews Cowboy Angels.

References

References

  1. "Publication: Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2006".
  2. (19 June 2014). "Not A Blog: ''Venus'' In March".
  3. "Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was".
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