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{{Short description|British botanist and science fiction author (born 1955)}}
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[[File:Paul McAuley 2005.JPG|thumb|Paul McAuley at [[Worldcon]] [[63rd World Science Fiction Convention|2005]] in [[Glasgow]]]]
'''Paul J. McAuley''' (born 23 April 1955) is a British botanist and science fiction author. A biologist by training, McAuley writes mostly [[hard science fiction]]. His novels deal with themes such as [[biotechnology]], [[Alternate history|alternative history]]/reality, and [[Spaceflight|space travel]].

McAuley began writing science fiction with the far-future [[space opera|space-opera]] novel ''[[Four Hundred Billion Stars]]'', its sequel ''Eternal Light'', and the planetary-colony adventure ''[[Of the Fall]]''. The novel ''Red Dust'', set on a far-future Mars colonized by the Chinese, is a [[planetary romance]] featuring many [[emerging technologies]] and science fiction motifs: [[nanotechnology]], [[biotechnology]], [[artificial intelligence]], personality downloads, and [[virtual reality]]. His ''Confluence'' series, set in an even more distant future (about ten million years from now), is one of multiple novels that use [[Frank J. Tipler]]'s [[Omega Point]] Theory as a theme; in this theory, the universe seems to be evolving toward a maximum degree of complexity and consciousness.<ref name="infplus">{{cite web
| url = http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intpmca.htm 
| title = Hard Science, Radical Imagination: An Interview with Paul J McAuley 
| work = Infinity Plus
| access-date=2015-10-23}}</ref> 
Around the same time, McAuley published the novel ''[[Pasquale's Angel]]'', set in an alternative [[Italian Renaissance]];  it features [[Niccolò Machiavelli|Niccolò Machiavegli]] (Machiavelli) and [[Leonardo da Vinci]] as major characters.

McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings: the novel ''Fairyland'' describes a dystopian, war-torn Europe where genetically engineered "dolls" are used as disposable slaves. Since 2001, he has produced several [[techno-thriller]] novels based on science fiction, such as ''The Secret of Life'', ''Whole Wide World'', and ''White Devils''.

''Four Hundred Billion Stars'', his first novel, won the [[Philip K. Dick Award]] in 1988.<ref name="WWE-1988">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1988 
| title = 1988 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref> ''Fairyland'' won the 1996 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]<ref name="WWE-1996">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1996 
| title = 1996 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref> and the 1997 [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award]] for Best SF Novel.<ref name="WWE-1997">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1997 
| title = 1997 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref> The short story "The Temptation of Dr. Stein" won the [[British Fantasy Award]]. ''Pasquale's Angel'' won the [[Sidewise Award for Alternate History]] (Long Form).

==Bibliography==
{{Incomplete list|date=May 2017}}{{bots|deny=Citation bot}}

===Novels===
* ''Red Dust''. London: Gollancz, 1993. {{ISBN|9780575054882}}
* ''[[Pasquale's Angel]]''. London: Gollancz, 1994. {{ISBN|9780575054899}} — Clarke and British Fantasy Awards nominee, 1995,<ref name="WWE-1995">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1995 
| title = 1995 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref> [[Sidewise Award for Alternate History|Sidewise Award]] winner
* ''Fairyland''. London: Gollancz, 1995. {{ISBN|9780575060708}} — BSFA Award nominee, 1995;<ref name="WWE-1995"/> Clarke Award winner, 1996;<ref name="WWE-1996"/> Campbell Award winner, 1997<ref name="WWE-1997"/>
* ''The Secret of Life''. London: Voyager, 2001. {{ISBN|9780002259040}} — BSFA Award nominee, 2001;<ref name="WWE-2001">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2001 
| title = 2001 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref> Clarke Award nominee, 2002<ref name="WWE-2002">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2002 
| title = 2002 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref>
* ''Whole Wide World''. London: Voyager, 2002. {{ISBN|9780002259033}}
* ''White Devils''. London: Simon & Schuster, 2004. {{ISBN|9780743238854}} — Campbell Award nominee, 2005<ref name="WWE-2005">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2005
| title = 2005 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref>
* ''Mind's Eye''. London: Simon & Schuster, 2005. {{ISBN|9780743238878}} — Campbell Award nominee, 2006<ref name="WWE-2006">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2006 
| title = 2006 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2015-10-23
}}</ref>
* ''Players''. London: Simon & Schuster, 2007. {{ISBN|9780743276177}}
* ''Cowboy Angels''. London: Gollancz, 2007. {{ISBN|9780575079342}}
* ''Austral'': London: Gollancz, 2017. {{ISBN|9781473217317}}
* ''War of the Maps''. London: Gollancz, 2020. {{ISBN|9781473217348}}
* ''Beyond the Burn Line''. London: Gollancz, 2022. {{ISBN|9781399603713}}
* ''Loss Protocol''. London: Gollancz, 2026. {{ISBN|9781399635561}}

;Four Hundred Billion Stars series
*{{cite book |title=Four Hundred Billion Stars |location=London |publisher=Gollancz |year=1988 <!--|isbn=9780575042605-->}} [Philip K. Dick Award winner, 1988]<ref name="WWE-1988"/>
* ''[[Secret Harmonies]]''. London: Gollancz, 1989. {{ISBN|9780575045804}}. (Published in the United States as ''Of the Fall'')
* ''Eternal Light''. London: Gollancz, 1991. {{ISBN|9780575049314}} — BSFA Award nominee, 1991<ref name="WWE-1991">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1991 
| title = 1991 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref> and Clarke Award nominee, 1992<ref name="WWE-1992">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1992 
| title = 1992 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref>
;The Confluence series
* ''Child of the River''. London: Gollancz, 1997. {{ISBN|9780575064270}}
* ''Ancients of Days''. London: Gollancz, 1998. {{ISBN|9780575064287}}
* ''Shrine of Stars''. London: Gollancz, 1999. {{ISBN|9780575064294}}
* ''Confluence - The Trilogy''. London: Gollancz, 2014. {{ISBN|9780575119420}}<ref name="confluence">{{cite web
 |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-confluence-the-trilogy-cover-art-and-synopsis-reveal 
 |title=Paul McAuley - Confluence The Trilogy cover art and synopsis reveal 
 |work=Upcoming4.me 
 |access-date=2013-10-24 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080201/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-confluence-the-trilogy-cover-art-and-synopsis-reveal 
 |archive-date=4 March 2016
}}</ref>

;The Quiet War series
* ''[[The Quiet War (novel)|The Quiet War]]''. London, Gollancz, 2008. {{ISBN|9780575079335}} — Clarke Award nominee, 2009<ref name="WWE-2009">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2009 
| title = 2009 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref>
* ''[[Gardens of the Sun]]''. London: Gollancz, 2009. {{ISBN|9780575079373}}
* ''[[In the Mouth of the Whale]]''. London: Gollancz, 2012. {{ISBN|9780575100732}}
* ''[[Evening's Empires]]'': London, Gollancz, 2013. {{ISBN|9780575100794}}<ref name="empires">{{cite web
 |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-evenings-empires-cover-art-and-synopsis-revealed 
 |title=Paul McAuley - Evening's Empires cover art and synopsis revealed 
 |work=Upcoming4.me 
 |access-date=2013-04-05 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006115642/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-evenings-empires-cover-art-and-synopsis-revealed 
 |archive-date=6 October 2013
}}</ref>
* ''Stories from the Quiet War'' (2011), a collection of five stories:
** "Making History", first published in 2000
** "Incomers", first published in 2008
** "Second Skin", first published in 1997 in Asimov's
** "Reef", first published in 2000
** "Karyl's War", first published in this collection
* ''Blade and Bone'' (2023) (novella)

;The Jackaroo series
* ''[[Something Coming Through]]'': London, Gollancz, 2015.<ref name="SCT">{{cite web
 |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-something-coming-through-and-into-everywhere-synopsis-reveal 
 |title=Paul McAuley - Something Coming Through and into Everywhere synopsis reveal 
 |work=Upcoming4.me 
 |access-date=2013-12-03 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207053058/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-something-coming-through-and-into-everywhere-synopsis-reveal 
 |archive-date=7 December 2013
}}</ref>
<!-- Move these into short stories table below; with a note that they belong to the Jackaroo series?-->
* ''[[Into Everywhere (novel)|Into Everywhere]]''. London: Gollancz, 2016.<ref name="SCT"/>
* ''Dust'' (short story) (2006)
* ''Winning Peace'' (short story) (2007)
* ''City of the Dead'' (short story) (2008)
* ''Adventure'' (short story) (2008)
* ''Crimes and Glory'' (short story) (2009)
* ''Bruce Springsteen'' (short story) (2012)
* ''The Man'' (short story) (2012)
* ''Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was'' (short story) (2016)
* ''Maryon's Gift'' (short story) (2022)

=== Short fiction ===
* ''The King of the Hill''. London: Gollancz, 1991. {{ISBN|9780575050013}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=20em}}
# The King of the Hill
# Karl and the Ogre
# Transcendence
# The Temporary King
# Exiles
# Little Ilya and Spider and Box
# The Airs of Earth
# The Heirs of Earth
{{colend}}
* ''[[The Invisible Country]]''. London: Gollancz, 1996. {{ISBN|9780575060722}} — Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 1998<ref name="WWE-1998">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1998 
| title = 1998 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-05-16
}}</ref> 
{{colbegin|colwidth=20em}}
# [[Hackers (anthology)#"Gene Wars"|Gene Wars]] (1991)
# Prison Dreams
# Recording Angel (1995)
# Dr. Luther's Assistant
# The Temptation of Dr Stein  (1996)<ref group=lower-alpha>Set in the same timeline than ''Pasquale's Angel'' (1994).</ref>
# Children of the Revolution
# The True History of Doctor Pretorius
# Slaves
{{colend}}
* ''Little Machines''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2005. {{ISBN|9781902880945}}
{{colbegin|colwidth=20em}}
# The Two Dicks
# Residuals
# 17
# All Tomorrow's Parties
# Interstitial
# How We Lost the Moon, a True Story by Frank W. Allen
# Under Mars
# Danger: Hard Hack Area
# The Madness of Crowds
# The Secret of My Success
# The Proxy
# I Spy
# The Rift
# Alien TV
# Before the Flood
# A Very British History
# Cross Roads Blues
{{colend}}
* ''A Very British History''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2013.<ref name="avbe">{{cite web
 |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-a-very-british-history-cover-art-unveiled 
 |title=Paul McAuley - A Very British History cover art unveiled 
 |work=Upcoming4.me 
 |access-date=2013-03-11 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319091814/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-a-very-british-history-cover-art-unveiled 
 |archive-date=19 March 2013
}}</ref><ref name="avbe1">{{cite web
 |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-announces-a-very-british-history-table-of-contents-unveiled 
 |title=Paul McAuley announces A Very British History, table of contents unveiled 
 |work=Upcoming4.me 
 |access-date=2013-03-11 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303060505/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/paul-mcauley-announces-a-very-british-history-table-of-contents-unveiled 
 |archive-date=3 March 2013
}}</ref>
{{colbegin|colwidth=20em}}
# Little Ilya and Spider and Box
# The Temporary King
# Cross Roads Blues
# Gene Wars
# Prison Dreams
# Children of the Revolution
# Recording Angel
# Second Skin
# All Tomorrow's Parties
# 17
# Sea Change, With Monsters
# How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen
# A Very British History
# The Two Dicks
# Meat
# Rocket Boy
# The Thought War
# City of the Dead
# Little Lost Robot
# Shadow Life
# The Choice
{{colend}}
;Stories<ref group=lower-alpha>Short stories unless otherwise noted.</ref>
{|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'
|-
!|Year
! width="25%" |Title
!|First published
!|Reprinted/collected
!|Notes
|-
!2000
|Making History
|''Making History''. Harrogate: PS Publishing, 2000. {{ISBN|9781902880082}}
|
|Novella
|-
!2003
|[[Telos Doctor Who novellas|''The Eye of the Tyger'']]
|''The Eye of the Tyger''. Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2003. {{ISBN|9781903889244}} (a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Telos Doctor Who novellas|novella]])
|
|Novella
|-
!2011
|The Choice
|{{cite journal |date=February 2011 |title=The Choice |magazine=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume= |issue= |pages=|journal=}}
|
|The Jackaroo series
|-
!2012
|Antarctica Starts Here
|{{cite journal |date=Oct–Nov 2012 |title=Antarctica Starts Here |magazine=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=36 |issue=10&11 |pages=48–56|journal=}}
|
|
|-
!2015
|Wild Honey
|{{cite journal |author=McAuley, Paul |date=August 2015 |title=Wild Honey |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=39 |issue=8 |pages=36–45}}
|
|
|-
!2023
|Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene
|''Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene'' (2023)
|
|Novella
|}
<!-- Move entries below into the table above -->
* "A Brief Guide to Other Histories"
* "Dead Men Walking". ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]''. 30 (3): 80–93. March 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Publication: Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2006 |url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?88181 |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=www.isfdb.org}}</ref>
* "Edna Sharrow"
* "Inheritance"
* "Planet of Fear" (2015) in ''[[Old Venus]]'' (anthology)<ref name="GRRM 2014-06">{{cite web|url=http://grrm.livejournal.com/374059.html?thread=19204907 |title=Not A Blog: ''Venus'' In March |date=19 June 2014 |website=GRRM.livejournal.com |access-date=27 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821044623/http://grrm.livejournal.com/374059.html?thread=19204907 |archive-date=21 August 2014}}</ref>
* "Rocket Boy"
* Set in the Jackaroo universe:
** "Winning Peace" (2016), in the collection ''Galactic Empires'' by [[Neil Clarke (editor)|Neil Clarke]].
** "Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was" (2016), published as a freebie on [[Reactor (magazine)|Tor.com]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was|url=http://www.tor.com/2016/07/20/something-happened-here-but-were-not-quite-sure-what-it-was/|access-date=2017-04-06}}</ref>

===Non-fiction===
* {{cite book |author=McAuley, Paul |title=Brazil |location=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |date=2014 |series=BFI Film Classics <!--|isbn=9781844577941-->}}
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;Bibliography notes
{{reflist|40em|group=lower-alpha}}

== Critical studies and reviews of McAuley's work ==
*{{cite journal |author=Spinrad, Norman |author-link=Norman Spinrad |date=April–May 2013 |title=Doors to anywhere |department=On Books |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=37 |issue=4&5 |pages=183–191}} Reviews ''Cowboy Angels''.
==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{wikiquote}}

* [http://www.unlikelyworlds.myzen.co.uk Paul J. McAuley's official site]
* {{isfdb name|name=Paul J. McAuley}}
* [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/misc/pmca.htm Infinity Plus profile of Paul J. McAuley]
* [http://www.michaelswanwick.com/nonfic/mcauley.html Profile of Paul McAuley] by [[Michael Swanwick]]
*[http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/secretoflife.htm Review, ''The Secret of Life'']
*[http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/column/sfw5171.html Review, ''The Book of Confluence'' trilogy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304105347/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/column/sfw5171.html |date=4 March 2009 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130320070926/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/review-paul-mcauley-whole-wide-world Review, ''Whole Wide World'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140304192705/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/review-confluence-the-trilogy-by-paul-mcauley Review, ''Confluence - trilogy omnibus'']
*[http://www.actusf.com/spip/?article4718 Interview on Actusf]
*[http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=418#books Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novel]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130814151446/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-quiet-war-by-paul-mcauley-how-i-wrote-the-quiet-war-novels-and-stories Story Behind Quiet War (How I wrote the Quiet War novels and stories) - Online Essay at ''Upcoming4.me'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140304203538/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-confluence-by-paul-mcauley-collaborating-with-myself Story behind Confluence by Paul McAuley - Collaborating With Myself - Online Essay at ''Upcoming4.me'']
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