Alastair Reynolds
Born 1966
Alastair Preston Reynolds is a British science fiction author. He
specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early
years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle
University, where he read physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a
PhD from the University of St Andrews. In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in
the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette (who is from France). There,
he worked for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (part of
the European Space Agency) until 2004 when he left to pursue writing
full-time. He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near Cardiff.
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