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Ian MacLeod (b. 1956) currently resides in Bewdley, Worcestershire, where he divides his time between teaching English and writing. After an early diet of Doctor Who, he fell in love with ghost stories in his early teens, and then the “scary” SF of novels such as The Day of the Triffids. For MacLeod, unease has always been a key part of what’s important in story-telling. As a writer – and indeed, a reader – he is particularly interested in the boundaries of the real and the unreal, and what makes or unmakes genre and mainstream fiction. His books include the Arkham House collection Voyages by Starlight, Breathmoss and Other Exhalations, Past Magic and the novels The Great Wheel, The Light Ages, The House of Storms and The Summer Isles. The latter two titles are both set in a historically twisted version of England, where the industrial revolution took place with the aid of magic. He is currently working on an eschatological novel of the very near future about God, death, and a technological afterlife. MacLeod’s “The Summer Isles” won the 1999 World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate Fiction Novella, while his story “The Chop Girl” received both the Asimov’s Readers’ Award and The World Fantasy Award in 2000. He has also been nominated for the BSFA, James Tiptree, Arthur C. Clarke, Nebula and Hugo awards.