Paul J. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom McAuley (born April 23, 1955), a British botanist, award-winning author, and self-described science junkie. Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar)
By training a biologist, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel. Note that this Partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction even if they predate or did not work in that genre Hard science fiction is a category of Science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail or on scientific accuracy or on both Biotechnology is Technology based on Biology, especially when used in Agriculture, Food science, and Medicine. Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of Speculative fiction (or Science fiction) and Historical fiction Spaceflight is the use of Space technology to fly a Spacecraft into and through Outer space.
McAuley started out writing far-future space opera with Four Hundred Billion Stars, its sequel Eternal Light, and the planetary-colony adventure Of the Fall. Space opera is a subgenre of Speculative fiction or Science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often Melodramatic adventure set mainly or entirely Red Dust, set on a far-future Mars colonized by the Chinese, is a planetary romance filled with all the latest SF ideas: nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, personality downloads, virtual reality. Planetary romance is a type of Science fantasy story in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one or more exotic alien planets characterized by distinctive Nanotechnology, sometimes shortened to nanotech, refers to a field of Applied science whose theme is the control of matter on an Atomic and Molecular Biotechnology is Technology based on Biology, especially when used in Agriculture, Food science, and Medicine. Virtual reality ( VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a Computer-simulated environment be it a real or imagined one The Confluence trilogy, set in an even more distant future (about ten million years ahead), is one of a number of novels to use Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory as part of its machinery. Frank Jennings Tipler III (born February 1, 1947 in Andalusia Alabama Prof Omega point is a term invented by French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the maximum level of complexity and consciousness to which the universe In the middle of this, he published Pasquale's Angel, set in an alternate Italian Renaissance and featuring Niccolò Machiavegli (Machiavelli) and Leonardo da Vinci in prominent roles. The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 14th Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( April 15 1452 – May 2 1519 was an Italian Polymath, having been a scientist Mathematician, Engineer
McAuley has also used biotech and nanotech themes in near-future settings: Fairyland describes a dystopian, war-torn Europe where genetically engineered "dolls" are used as disposable slaves. Since 2001 he has produced several SF-based techno-thrillers 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. The Philip K Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005 supported Fairyland won the 1996 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 1997 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel. This article describes the Arthur C Clarke Award For the awards that recognise British space achievement see Sir Arthur Clarke Award. This page describes the award for best science fiction novel for other awards see Campbell Award (disambiguation "The Temptation of Dr. Stein," won the British Fantasy Award. The British Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971 Pasquale's Angel won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (Long Form). The Sidewise Award for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best Alternate history stories and novels of the year
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Bibliography
Novels
- Four Hundred Billion Stars
- Four Hundred Billion Stars. London: Gollancz, 1988. ISBN 0-575-04260-5
- Secret Harmonies (vt US Of the Fall). London: Gollancz, 1989. ISBN 0-575-04580-9
- Eternal Light. London: Gollancz, 1991. ISBN 0-575-04931-6
- Red Dust. London: Gollancz, 1993. ISBN 0-575-05488-3
- Pasquale's Angel. London: Gollancz, 1994. ISBN 0-575-05489-1
- Fairyland. London: Gollancz, 1995. ISBN 0-575-06070-0
- The Confluence Series:
- Child of the River. London: Gollancz, 1997. ISBN 0-575-06427-7
- Ancients of Days. London: Gollancz, 1998. ISBN 0-575-06428-5
- Shrine of Stars. London: Gollancz, 1999. ISBN 0-575-06429-3
- The Secret of Life. London: Voyager, 2001. ISBN 0-00-225904-4
- Whole Wide World. London: Voyager, 2002. ISBN 0-00-225903-6
- White Devils. London: Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN 0-7432-3885-0
- Mind's Eye. London: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-3887-7
- Players. London: Simon & Schuster, 2007. ISBN 0-7432-7617-5
- Cowboy Angels. London: Gollancz, 2007. ISBN 978-0-575-07934-7
Novellas
- Making History. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-902880-08-0
- The Eye of the Tyger. The Eye of the Tyger is an original novella written by Paul J Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-903889-24-3 (a Doctor Who novella)
Collections
- King of the Hill. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The Telos Doctor Who novellas were a series of tie-in Novellas based on the long-running BBC Science fiction Television series London: Gollancz, 1988. ISBN 0-575-05001-2
- The Invisible Country. London: Gollancz, 1988. ISBN 0-575-06072-7
- Little Machines. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1-902880-94-3
See also: "Gene Wars" (1991)
External links
- Paul J. McAuley's official site
- Infinity Plus profile of Paul J. McAuley
- Profile of Paul McAuley by Michael Swanwick
- Paul J. McAuley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Review, The Secret of Life
- Review, The Book of Confluence trilogy
- Interview on Actusf
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