Paul J. McAuley

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Paul McAuley at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow

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.[1] 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.[2] Fairyland won the 1996 Arthur C. Clarke Award[3] and the 1997 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel.[4] The short story "The Temptation of Dr. Stein" won the British Fantasy Award. Pasquale's Angel won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (Long Form).

Bibliography

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Novels

Four Hundred Billion Stars series
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  • Secret Harmonies. London: Gollancz, 1989. Template:ISBN. (Published in the United States as Of the Fall)
  • Eternal Light. London: Gollancz, 1991. Template:ISBN — BSFA Award nominee, 1991[10] and Clarke Award nominee, 1992[11]
The Confluence series
The Quiet War series
The Jackaroo series
  • Something Coming Through: London, Gollancz, 2015.[15]
  • Into Everywhere. London: Gollancz, 2016.[15]
  • 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

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  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

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  1. Gene Wars (1991)
  2. Prison Dreams
  3. Recording Angel (1995)
  4. Dr. Luther's Assistant
  5. The Temptation of Dr Stein (1996)[lower-alpha 1]
  6. Children of the Revolution
  7. The True History of Doctor Pretorius
  8. Slaves

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  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.[17][18]

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  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
Stories[lower-alpha 2]
Year Title First published Reprinted/collected Notes
2000 Making History Making History. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2000. Template:ISBN Novella
2003 The Eye of the Tyger The Eye of the Tyger. Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2003. Template:ISBN (a Doctor Who novella) Novella
2011 The Choice Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". The Jackaroo series
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2023 Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene Gravesend, 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.[19]
  • "Edna Sharrow"
  • "Inheritance"
  • "Planet of Fear" (2015) in Old Venus (anthology)[20]
  • "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.[21]

Non-fiction

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  2. ↑ Short stories unless otherwise noted.

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Critical studies and reviews of McAuley's work

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References

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External links

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