Since about 2000, book jackets have given his name as just Paul McAuley. 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 has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings. 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. Fairyland won the 1996 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 1997 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel.
Series
Books
Players
2007
Whole Wide World
2002
Cowboy Angels
2007
The Starry Rift
Tales of New Tomorrows
2008
City of the Dead
2008
War of the Maps
2020
Drowned Worlds
2016
Brazil
2014
Twelve Tomorrows 2013
2013
Stories from the Quiet War
2011
In the Mouth of the Whale
2012
Beyond the Burn Line
2022
Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was
2016
Mind's Eye
2005
Evening's Empires
2013
Life After Wartime
2013
Dr Pretorius and the Lost Temple
2002
Gardens of the Sun
2009
Vanishing Acts
A Science Fiction Anthology
2000
Little Machines
2005
Something Coming Through
2015
Into Everywhere
2016
Austral
2017
Other Worlds Than These
2012
Doctor Who
Eye of the Tyger
2003
The Secret of Life
2001
White Devils
2004
The Quiet War
2008
