Peter F. Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton
Peter F. Hamilton at a book fair in Paris, France, in March 2009
Born	(1960-03-02) 2 March 1960 Rutland, England
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Period	1987–present
Genre	Science fiction, Space opera
Website
www.peterfhamilton.co.uk

Peter F. Hamilton (born 2 March 1960) is a British author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004, his works had sold over two million copies worldwide.

Biography

Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland, England on 2 March 1960. He didn't 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."

After he started writing in 1987 he sold his first short story to Fear Magazine in 1988. His first novel, Mindstar Rising, was published in 1993, followed by A Quantum Murder and The Nano Flower. After this he wrote a massive space opera, called The Night's Dawn Trilogy. As of 2008 he still lives in Rutland, near Rutland Water, with his wife Kate, daughter Sophie, and son Felix.

Bibliography

Main article: Peter F. Hamilton bibliography

External links

• Official website
• The Unisphere | A Peter F. Hamilton Fan Site
• Peter F. Hamilton @ Fandom | A fan wikia
• Peter F. Hamilton at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database