|
Paul J. McAuley (born 23 April 1955) is a British botanist and award-winning author. A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel. McAuley began with far-future space opera ''Four Hundred Billion Stars'', its sequel ''Eternal Light'', and the planetary-colony adventure ''Of the Fall''. ''Red Dust'', set on a far-future Mars colonized by the Chinese, is a planetary romance featuring many emerging technologies and SF motifs: nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, personality downloads, virtual reality. The Confluence series, set in an even more distant future (about ten million years from now), is one of a number of novels to use Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory (that the universe seems to be evolving toward a maximum degree of complexity and consciousness) as one of its themes. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Hard Science, Radical Imagination: An Interview with Paul J McAuley )〕 About the same time, he published ''Pasquale's Angel'', set in an alternate Italian Renaissance and featuring Niccolò Machiavegli (Machiavelli) and Leonardo da Vinci as major characters. McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings: ''Fairyland'' describes a dystopian, war-torn Europe where genetically engineered "dolls" are used as disposable slaves. Since 2001 he has produced several SF-based techno-thrillers 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1988 Award Winners & Nominees )〕 ''Fairyland'' won the 1996 Arthur C. Clarke Award〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1996 Award Winners & Nominees )〕 and the 1997 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1997 Award Winners & Nominees )〕 "The Temptation of Dr. Stein", won the British Fantasy Award. ''Pasquale's Angel'' won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (Long Form). ==Bibliography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul J. McAuley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|