Peter F. Hamilton | |
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![]() Peter F. Hamilton at a book fair in Paris, France, in March 2009. | |
Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Rutland, England |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | British |
Period | 1987–present |
Genre | Science fiction, Space opera |
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Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960) is a British author. He is known for writing science fiction space opera.
Peter F. Hamilton was born in England in Rutland in 1960.[1] He did not attend university. He said in an interview, "I did science at school up to age eighteen, I stopped doing English, English literature, writing at sixteen, I just wasn't interested in those days".[2]
After he started writing in 1987, he sold his first short story to Fear Magazine in 1988.[1] His first novel, Mindstar Rising, was published during 1993, followed by A Quantum Murder (1994) and The Nano Flower (1995), which together comprise the Greg Mandel trilogy.[2]
He then wrote a space opera novel, named The Night's Dawn Trilogy. He has also published the Commonwealth Saga with the Void Trilogy and The Chronicle of the Fallers in the same universe.[3]
Since 2018, he has written the unrelated space opera Salvation Sequence, and young adult sci-fi Arkship Trilogy, set in original universes.[4][5]
In 2000, Hamilton was awarded BSFA Award for The Suspect Genome.[6]
Hamilton received the Inkpot Award in 2012.[7]