Paul J McAuley is a British botanist and award winning author of "hard" science fiction. His writing mainly follows themes of Biotechnology, Artificial Technology, Nanotechnology, alternate history and space travel.

Paul J McAuley won the Philip K Dick award for his very first novel, "Four Hundred Billion Stars" (The first novel in the series of the same name) in 1988 and has since won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the John W Campbell Award for "Fairyland" and the British Fantasy Award for "The Temptation of Dr Stein".

Bibliography

Four Hundred Billion Stars

• Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988)
• Secret Harmonies (1989)
• Eternal Light (1991)

The Confluence Series

• Child of the River (1997)
• Ancients of Days (1998)
• Shrine of Stars (1999)

Single Volumes

• Red Dust (1993)
• Pasquale's Angel (1994)
• Fairyland. London (1995)
• The Secret of Life (2001)
• Whole Wide World (2002)
• White Devils (2004)
• Mind's Eye (2005)
• Players (2007)
• Cowboy Angels (2007)
• The Quiet War ( 2008)
• Gardens of the Sun (2009)
• In the Mouth of the Whale