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Paul McAuley (b. 1955) was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire. He received a B.Sc in botany and zoology from Bristol University in 1976, and went on to get a Ph.D. in botany in 1980. A former research scientist at Oxford University and UCLA, and a former lecturer at St. Andrews University, he became a full-time writer in 1996. He sold a story to Worlds of If when he was just nineteen, but the magazine folded before it could appear, and his first published short story, "Wagon, Passing", appeared in Asimov’s in 1984. With his debut novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, he became the first British writer to win the prestigious Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and he established his reputation as one of the best young science fiction writers in the field by winning the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1995. His other novels include Secret Harmonies (aka Of the Fall), Eternal Light, Red Dust, Pasquale’s Angel (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Long Form Alternate History fiction), the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Fairyland, Child of the River, Ancients of Days, Shrine of Stars, Ship of Fools, The Secret of Life, Whole Wide World, Doctor Who: Eye of the Tyger, White Devils and Mind’s Eye. McAuley’s short fiction is collected in The King of the Hill and Other Stories, The Invisible Country and Little Machines, while his story "The Temptation of Dr. Stein" was awarded the 1995 British Fantasy Award. "Making History" was a novella from PS Publishing, and he co-edited the 1986 anthology In Dreams with Kim Newman.