Alastair Reynolds (www.alastairreynolds.com) was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He has lived in Cornwall, Scotland, and the Netherlands, where he spent twelve years working as a scientist for the European Space Agency before returning to Wales, where he lives with his wife Josette. Reynolds has been publishing short fiction since his first sale to Interzone in 1990. Since 2000, he has published eighteen novels: the Inhibitor trilogy, British Science Fiction Association Award winner Chasm City, Century Rain, Pushing Ice, The Prefect, House of Suns, Terminal World, the Poseidon’s Children series, the Doctor Who novel Harvest of Time, The Medusa Chronicles (with Stephen Baxter), Elysium Fire, and the Revenger trilogy. His short fiction has been collected in Zima Blue and Other Stories, Galactic North, Deep Navigation, and Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds. His most recent novel is Inhibitor Phase. In his spare time, he rides horses.