Paul J. McAuley books in order

Paul J. McAuley (born 1955) is a British science fiction writer and botanist by training, best known for Fairyland (1995), winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 23 April 1955.

McAuley's first story in Asimov's, "Wagon, Passing", appeared in 1984. His first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), opened a space-opera sequence and shared the Philip K. Dick Award. Its sequel Eternal Light (1991) was nominated for the BSFA Award and was runner-up for the Clarke Award, and the alternate-history novel Pasquale's Angel (1994) won the Sidewise Award. Fairyland is a near-future story of genetically engineered servants. Later work includes the far-future Confluence trilogy (1997 to 1999), The Secret of Life (2001), White Devils (2004), the Quiet War sequence beginning with The Quiet War (2008) and Gardens of the Sun (2009), the Jackaroo novels, Austral (2017) and War of the Maps (2020). His story "The Temptation of Dr Stein" won the British Fantasy Award. He has also written for Games Workshop under the name Sean Flynn.

For collectors: Eternal Light (1991), Pasquale's Angel (1994), Fairyland (1995) and The Quiet War (2008) were all published by Gollancz in London. Fairyland, as his double award winner, is the key title.