Peter F. Hamilton
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Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960) is a British author. He is known for writing science fiction space opera.
BiographyEdit
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland, England in 1960.<ref name=pm>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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".<ref name= interview>Template:Cite interview</ref>
After he started writing in 1987, he sold his first short story to Fear Magazine in 1988.<ref name=pm/> 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.<ref name= interview/>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Since 2018, he has written the unrelated space opera Salvation Sequence, and young adult sci-fi Arkship Trilogy, set in original universes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
AwardsEdit
In 2000, Hamilton was awarded BSFA Award for The Suspect Genome.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Hamilton received the Inkpot Award in 2012.<ref>Inkpot Award</ref>
BibliographyEdit
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External linksEdit
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- The Unisphere | A Peter F. Hamilton Fan Site
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