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Paul J. McAuley (born 23 April 1955), a British botanist and award-winning author.

A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly "hard science fiction", dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel.

McAuley began with far-future "space opera" with Four Hundred Billion Stars, its sequel Eternal Light, and the planetary-colony adventure Of the Fall. 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. The Confluence trilogy, set in an even more distant future (about ten million years from now), is one of a number of novels to use Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory (that the universe seems to be evolving toward a maximum degree of complexity and consciousness) as one of its themes.About the same time, he published Pasquale's Angel, set in an alternate Italian Renaissance and featuring Niccolò Machiavegli (Machiavelli) and Leonardo da Vinci as major characters.

McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology 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 in 1988. Fairyland won the 1996 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 1997 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel. "The Temptation of Dr. Stein," won the British Fantasy Award. Pasquale's Angel won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (Long Form).

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Total Books: 64
Shrine of Stars
2001 - Shrine of Stars [Confluence, Bk 3] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780380792986
ISBN-10: 0380792982
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 5

Confluence
2000 - Confluence [SFBC, Science fiction] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780739412718
ISBN-10: 073941271X
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 2

Child of the River
1999 - Child of the River [Confluence, Bk 1] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780380792962
ISBN-10: 0380792966
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 8

Pasquale's Angel
1997 - Pasquale's Angel (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780380778201
ISBN-10: 0380778203
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
 4

Eternal Light
1994 - Eternal Light (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780380766239
ISBN-10: 038076623X
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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