Alistair Reynolds

Alistair Reynolds is a former space scientist, who turned from studying pulsars and binary stars to fiction. He is now the author of twenty novels and more than seventy short stories. His work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Arthur C Clarke and Sturgeon awards, and  have won the Seiun, Sidewise, European Science Fiction Society and Locus awards. His stories have been adapted for stage and television.