Peter Hamilton was born on March 2, 1960 in Rutland (UK), currently lives near Rutland Water. He began writing in 1987, and a year later his first story was published in Fear magazine. Since then, Hamilton's stories have been published in Interzone magazine, and his short works have been included in the anthologies In Dreams and New Worlds. In 1992, his first novel [Mindstar Rising] was published about the adventures of psychic detective Greg Mandel. This book opened the trilogy, which also included the novels "A Quantum Murder" (1994) and "The Nano Flower" (1995), nominated for the British Science Fiction Award, as well as the story "The Suspect Genome" (2000), which received the British Science Fiction Award 2000 and nominated for Locus Award 2001. Hamilton's second sci-fi trilogy, The Coming of Night [Night " s Dawn], was opened in 1996 with The Reality Dysfunction and continued with The Neutron Alchemist and The Naked God, Peter Hamilton has a collection of short stories set in the world of The Coming of Night, but before the events of the novel Dysfunction of Reality, and several off-series novels.