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{{Short description|British author (born 1960)}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Peter F. Hamilton
| image            = Peter_F._Hamilton_at_MCM_Comic_Con_London,_May_2025_02.jpg
| caption          = At MCM Comic Con London, May 2025
| pseudonym        = 
| birth_place      = [[Rutland]], England
| birth_date       = {{Birth year and age|1960}}
| death_place      = 
| occupation       = Novelist
| nationality      = British
| period           = 1987–present
| genre            = Science fiction, [[Space opera]]
| signature        = 
| website          = {{URL|https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/peter-f-hamilton/1507}}
}}

'''Peter F. Hamilton''' (born 1960) is a British author. He is known for writing [[science fiction]] [[space opera]].

== Biography ==
Peter F. Hamilton was born in [[Rutland]], England in 1960.<ref name=pm>{{cite web | title=Peter F. Hamilton | website=Pan Macmillan | url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/peter-f-hamilton/1507 | access-date=9 December 2022}}</ref> He did not attend university.  He said in an interview, "I did science at school up to age eighteen, I stopped doing English, English literature, writing at sixteen, I just wasn't interested in those days".<ref name= interview>{{cite interview| first= Peter F. |last=Hamilton| interviewer-first=Hans| interviewer-last= Persson|url=http://www.lysator.liu.se/lsff/mb-nr33/Peter_F_Hamilton.html|title=Peter F. Hamilton| date= 1996|quote=This is a transcription of the interview with Peter F. Hamilton held at ConFuse 96. The interview and transcription was done by Hans Persson. The text has been edited by Hans Persson and Tommy Persson to make it more readable.}}</ref>

After he started writing in 1987, he sold his first short story to ''[[Newsfield Publications#Fear|Fear Magazine]]'' in 1988.<ref name=pm/> His first novel, ''[[Mindstar Rising]]'', was published during 1993, followed by ''[[A Quantum Murder]]'' (1994) and ''[[The Nano Flower]]'' (1995), which together comprise the Greg Mandel trilogy.<ref name= interview/>

He then wrote a space opera novel, named ''[[The Night's Dawn Trilogy]]''. He has also published the ''[[Commonwealth Saga]]'' with the ''[[Void Trilogy]]'' and ''[[The Chronicle of the Fallers]]'' in the same universe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter F. Hamilton's books in order |url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/science-fiction-and-fantasy/peter-f-hamilton-books-in-order |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=www.panmacmillan.com |language=en}}</ref>

Since 2018, he has written the unrelated space opera ''Salvation Sequence'', and [[Young adult literature|young adult]] sci-fi ''Arkship Trilogy'', set in original universes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chitty |first=Mark |date=2020-10-28 |title=The Saints of Salvation by Peter F Hamilton – SFFWorld |url=https://www.sffworld.com/2020/10/the-saints-of-salvation-by-peter-f-hamilton/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cunliffe |first=Chris |title=Interview: Peter F. Hamilton — Parallel Publishing |url=https://www.parallelpublishing.co.uk/2021/10/29/interview-peter-f-hamilton/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |language=en-GB}}</ref> 

==Awards==
In 2000, Hamilton was awarded [[BSFA Award]] for ''The Suspect Genome.''<ref>{{Cite journal |date=February 2001 |title=Original reviews |url=http://starbaseandromeda.com/Graphics/Andromedan%20Logs/AndLog%2061.pdf |journal=The Andromedan, Log #61 |volume=5 |issue=13 }}</ref>

Hamilton received the [[Inkpot Award]] in 2012.<ref>[https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot Inkpot Award]</ref>

==Bibliography==
{{main|Peter F. Hamilton bibliography}}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.theunisphere.com The Unisphere | A Peter F. Hamilton Fan Site]
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[[Category:1960 births]]
[[Category:20th-century English novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century English novelists]]
[[Category:English male novelists]]
[[Category:English science fiction writers]]
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[[Category:People from Rutland]]
[[Category:Inkpot Award winners]]