Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and now lives in Somerset. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night’s Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, The Chronicle of the Fallers, short-story collections and several standalone novels including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.

Book One in the Salvation Sequence, a dazzling space opera trilogy from master of the genre, Peter F. Hamilton