Paul McAuley

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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About the Author

Paul McAuley is a former research scientist at Oxford University and UCLA,and a former lecturer in botany at St. Andrews University. This is his debutthriller and marks the arrival of a major British talent in this field. Heis available for interview and comment, particularly in regard to thedangers of biotechnology and the interface of profit and science.

Paul McAuley's first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, won the Philip KDick Memorial Award, and his most recent novel, Fairyland, won the 1995Arthur C Clarke Award for best SF novel published in Britain and the John WCampbell Award for best novel. In 1995 his short story 'The Temptation of DrStein' won the British Fantasy Award, and in 1996 his novel Pasquale's Angelwon the Sidewise Award for Best Long Form Alternate History fiction.

Full Series List in Order

Confluence

1 - Child of the River (Jun-1998)
2 - Ancients of Days (May-2000)
3 - Shrine of Stars (Sep-2000)

Multi-Author Series List

Doctor Who

Doctor Who: Eye of the Tiger (Nov-2003)
Eye of the Tyger (Dec-2003)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Four Hundred Billion Stars

  • Of the Fall

    When a colony ship from Earth fails to arrive on the planet Elysium, the underlying tensions between city-dwellers and illegal homesteaders erupts in violent confrontation. The lives of three disparate men become entangled with the mysterious Elysian...

  • In Dreams

    An anthology of science-fiction, fantasy and horror stories which celebrates the subversive glories of the seven-inch pop record. The authors include Jonathan Carroll, Ian McDonald, Lewis Shiner, Greg Egan, Ian MacLeod, Ian Watson, Gwyneth Jones, Ste...

  • Eternal Light

    In the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core. Its appearance adds a new and dangerous factor in the turbulent politics of the inhabited worlds as the rival factio...

  • Red Dust

    Mars, 600 years in the future, is dying.Five hundred years after the Chinese conquered the Red Planet, the great work of terraforming is failing. The human-machine Consensus of Earth had persuaded the AI Emperor to follow the Golden Path into a vast ...

  • Pasquale's Angel

    Florence in the year 1518 is riven by scientific and sociological change caused b the wonderful devices of the Great Engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Now he is old and lives as a recluse working behind the walls of his castle. The Raphaelites, artists ...

  • Fairyland

    Before he met the brilliant, hypnotic child Milena, Alex Sharkey had never played with "dolls"--blue-skinned, gengineered lifeforms designed for work, amusement, or destruction. But the underground gene-hacker is seduced by a megalomaniacal little gi...

  • Second Skin

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  • Child of the River

    Confluence - 1

    WHERE ALL THINGS FLOW TOGETHER, EVERYTHING COMES APART. Untold millennia ago, the Preservers made the world called Confluence and peopled it with ten thousand extraordinary bloodlines "shaped" from beasts of every sort. Then the Preservers abando...



  • The Invisible Country

    Nine short stories explore the wonders and dangers of biotechnology and its creations and follow such themes as a mourning physician in a sixteenth-century Venice transformed by a premature Industrial Revolution. Original....

  • Confluence

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    3 short novels in one volume. Confluence-a long, narrow man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micro-machines...

  • Ancients of Days

    Confluence - 2

    On an artificial world created and seeded with ten thousand bloodlines by the long-vanished Preservers, young Yama's ancestry is unique, for he appears to be the last remaining scion of the Builders, closest of all races to the worshipped architec...

  • Shrine of Stars

    Confluence - 3

    Who would lay time to rest, or raise it up from its tomb?The Ancients of Days - humans returned from a long exile in the depths of time and space and history - brought heresy and doubt to the artificial world of Confluence, and ignited a terrible ...

  • The Secret of Life

    2026: Something is growing in the Pacific Ocean, a strange fungus-like organism that may threaten our entire food chain. Christened "the slick," the bizarre phenomenon is quickly the subject of intense, top-secret analysis -- which rapidly reveals th...

  • Whole Wide World

    London, in the aftermath of the Infowar. Surveillance cameras on every street-corner, their tireless gaze linked to a cutting-edge artificial intelligence system. Censors zealously patrolling the internet. A talented, young woman murdered before the ...

  • Doctor Who: Eye of the Tiger

    Doctor Who

  • Eye of the Tyger

    Doctor Who

  • White Devils

    Plague, civil war, and uncontrolled experiments in genetic engineering have caused widespread chaos and devastation throughout Africa. Nicholas Hyde is part of a team of forensic pathologists investigating a massacre in the swamp forest of the northe...

  • Cowboy Angels

    America, 1984 - not our version of America, but an America that calls itself the Real, an America in which the invention of Turing Gates has allowed it access to sheaves of alternate histories. For ten years, in the name of democracy, the Real has be...



  • The Quiet War

    Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities...

  • Quiet War, The

    A collection of five stories, including a previously unpublished novella, set in the universe of the author's novels The Quiet War and Gardens of the Sun. Only available as an e-publication.After the end of the Quiet War, the victorious forces from E...

  • Gardens of the Sun

    The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational utopianism and exploration of new...

  • 400 Billion Stars

    Dorothy Yoshida is a telepath, and a really rather good one at that.

    She's also a scientist, and when a small planet begins to manifest some unusual signs she is sent to investigate. The planet is more than it seems, and on further investig...

  • In the Mouth of the Whale

    A novel of a savage future war, perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton.Humanity's future rests on the shoulders of a Child from the past, and she must never know of the battles being fought for her ...In the system of Fomalhaut, ...

  • Evening's Empires

    In the far future, a young man stands on a barren asteroid. His ship has been stolen, his family kidnapped or worse, and all he has on his side is a semi-intelligent spacesuit. The only member of the crew to escape, Hari has barely been off his ship ...

  • Something Coming Through

    The aliens are here. And they want to help. The extraordinary new project from one of the country's most acclaimed and consistently brilliant SF novelists of the last 30 years.The Jackaroo have given humanity fifteen worlds and the means to reach the...

  • Into Everywhere

    The Jackaroo, those enigmatic aliens who claim to have come to help, gave humanity access to worlds littered with ruins and scraps of technology left by long-dead client races. But although people have found new uses for alien technology, that techno...

  • Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was

    Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was by Paul McAuley is a complex sf story about politics and xenophobia when human colonists on an Earth-like planet are faced with the possibility of reaching out to alien cultures, especia...

  • The Quiet War Sequence

    THE QUIET WARWho decides what it means to be human?Twenty-third century Earth has been ravaged by climate change, and is now dominated by a few powerful families, with millions of people in prison and millions more labouring to rebuild ruined ecosy...



  • Austral

    A prescient and chilling climate change thriller set on the harsh landscape of Antarctica from one of the best science fiction writers of the present dayThe great geoengineering projects have failed.The world is still warming, sea levels are still ri...

  • War of the Maps

    'The underrated McAuley is in top form in this hard science fiction novel with heart.' Washington Post Book WorldOn a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man - a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a policeman - is on the hunt. His ...

  • Secret Harmonies

    The planet Elysium should be a paradise. Like Earth before the Age of Waste, it is both beautiful and bountiful, inhabited by peaceful aboriginals and human colonists. But in its chief city, Port of Plenty, the first colonists have kept the superior ...

  • Beyond the Burn Line

    WHAT WILL BECOME OF US?In the deep future beyond the burn line of the Anthropocene and the extinction of humanity, the city states of an intelligent species of bear have fallen to a mind-wrecking plague. The bears' former slaves, a peaceable, industr...

Award-Winning Books by Paul McAuley

Fairyland
1997 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
Four Hundred Billion Stars
1989 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul McAuley has published 33 books.

Paul McAuley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beyond the Burn Line, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Paul McAuley, Four Hundred Billion Stars, was published in April 1988.

Yes. Paul McAuley has 1 series.
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