John Meaney (born 1957 in London) is a British

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Biography

Meaney grew up in London and

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with his brother Colm (who is not the same as the Star Trek actor Colm Meaney). He has studied martial arts since childhood and has a black belt in

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. Meaney originally studied at

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

and holds a combined degree in

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and

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from the

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. He has done postgraduate work at

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and is a part-time IT consultant.

Writing career

Meaney's science fiction began appearing in 1992 with "Spring Rain" in the July 1992 issue of '' Interzone''. He has published over a dozen short pieces as of 2006. His novelette "Sharp Tang" was shortlisted for the

British Science Fiction Association Award The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction. Nominees and winners are chosen based on a vote of BSFA members. More recently, m ...

in 1995. His first and second novels, ''To Hold Infinity'' and ''Paradox'', were on the BSFA shortlists for Best Novel in 1999 and 2001. ''To Hold Infinity'' was also selected as one of the '' Daily Telegraphs "Books of the Yea

He lives in

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with his wife Yvonne.

Works

* ''To Hold Infinity'' (Bantam/Transworld, 1998)

Nulapeiron Sequence

# ''Paradox'' (Bantam/Transworld, 2000) # ''Context'' (Bantam/Transworld, 2002) # ''Resolution'' (Bantam/Transworld, 2005)

Tristopolis

# '' Bone Song'' (Gollancz/Orion, 2007) # ''Dark Blood'' (Gollancz/Orion, 2008) - released as ''Black Blood'' in the US in 2009 # ''Tristopolis Requiem'' (Self published, 2018)

Ragnarok

# ''Absorption'' (Gollancz/Orion, 2010) # ''Transmission'' (Gollancz/Orion, 2012) # ''Resonance'' (Gollancz/Orion, 2013)

Writing as Thomas Blackthorne

# ''Edge'' (Angry Robot, 2010) # ''Point'' (Angry Robot, 2011)

External links

John Meaney's Web site
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