Campbell Award, and Child of the River (1997) – first of SF trilogy The Book of Confluence, which will continue with Ancients of Days and (tentatively titled) Ship of Fools. Later works include Mars novel Red Dust (1993), alternate world Renaissance work Pasquale's Angel (1994), near-future SF Fairyland (1995), which won the John W. Dick Award it began a loosely connected series which continued with Of the Fall (aka Secret Harmonies, 1989), and Eternal Light (1991). His first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), was a co-winner of the 1989 Philip K. At 19, he sold a story to If, but the magazine folded before it could appear he made the first of many short fiction sales in 1984, when ''Wagon, Passing'' appeared in Asimov's.
McAuley has degrees in botany and zoology and did scientific research in Britain and, for a time in the '80s, in Los Angeles, before becoming a full-time professor in the UK. (excerpted from Locus Magazine, August 1998)
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