Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and now lives in Somerset. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night's Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, The Chronicle of the Fallers, the Salvation Sequence short story collections and several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.
"One of the most popular authors of ""space operas"" in Britain today, writing vast doorsteps of novels that combine fantastic speculation with incredible detailed imagining of the lives we will lead after the 30th century . . . Hamilton's story telling is crystal clear -- <i>Guardian</i> We've said it before but let's say it again: nobody does BIG SF quite like Hamilton -- <i>SFX</i> Hamilton again proves he's expert at conjuring widescreen space opera. But it's not just the epic at which he excels: the fantasy sequences . . . have an unexpected lightness of touch. An audacious collision of genres with real energy and verve: excellent. -- <i>BBC Focus</i> Maintains the quality and wonder that began with The Dreaming Void -- <i>SFSignal</i>"