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Paul McAuley

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in Stroud, Gloucestershire, The United Kingdom

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http://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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March 2016

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Since about 2000, book jackets have given his name as just Paul McAuley.

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 has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings.

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.

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A Little More Loss Protocol

Locus magazine has put up Niall Harrison's insightful and spoiler-free review of Loss Protocol on its web site. 'Surely some of the best speculative nature writing – which is to say nature writing about an ecosystem that does not exist – yet published.'

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Average rating: 3.72 · 31,006 ratings · 3,600 reviews · 227 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Quiet War (The Quiet War, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 2,381 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Coming Through (Jackaroo, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 1,342 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gardens of the Sun (The Quiet War, #2) 3.82 avg rating — 1,053 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War of the Maps 3.64 avg rating — 817 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Austral 3.52 avg rating — 685 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into Everywhere (Jackaroo, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Burn Line 3.52 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Mouth of the Whale (The Quiet War, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cowboy Angels 3.33 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evening's Empires 3.66 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Paul McAuley wrote a new blog post A Little More Loss Protocol Locus magazine has put up Niall Harrison's insightful and spoiler-free review of Loss Protocol on its web site. 'Surely some of the best speculative n Read more of this blog post »
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“The past doesn’t change, does it?”
“It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.”
― Paul J. McAuley, Evening's Empires

tags: old-testament

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“One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.”
― Paul J. McAuley

tags: future-history

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“This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.”
― Paul J. McAuley, Evening's Empires

tags: evening-s-empires

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MAY SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which 2 books will move on to the run-off poll for our May SF Book of the Month

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

17 votes, 21.8%

When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger

12 votes, 15.4%

The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

11 votes, 14.1%

Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh

10 votes, 12.8%

Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson

9 votes, 11.5%

Archangel by Sharon Shinn

8 votes, 10.3%

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

6 votes, 7.7%

The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

3 votes, 3.8%

The Myriad by R.M. Meluch

2 votes, 2.6%

78 total votes

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