MEANEY, John
John Meaney is the author of six novels, most recently Bone Song (2007, Gollancz) and Dark Blood (2008, Gollancz, and published by Bantam Spectra in the US under the title Black Blood) – gothic science fiction/suspense set in the city of Tristopolis beneath always-indigo skies, where energy comes from necroflux reactor piles containing the bones of the dead. Lieutenant Donal Riordan is a hardbitten cop with a wraith and a zombie among his colleagues, dark mages among his enemies, surrounded by conspiracy.
Meaney’s first novel, To Hold Infinity (1998), was one of the Daily Telegraph Books of the Year (1st choice in SF/Fantasy), and it was followed by the Nulapeiron sequence of Paradox (2000, Independent Publishers Book of the Year, SF/Fantasy category), Context (2001) and Resolution (2005) .
His short fiction has appeared in Interzone magazine and various ‘best of year’ anthologies. He has been shortlisted three times for the BSFA Award. 
He has trained in multiple martial arts, primarily karate, for over three decades. His degree is in physics and computer science, he has taught software engineering and business analysis to blue-chip corporate clients on three continents, and is a trained hypnotist. He also likes cats.
One thing
Dark Blood
doesn’t do is let you relax… One of the most satisfying border crossing fusions of Dark Fantasy, Horror and hard Science Fiction in years…
— Anthony Brown, Starburst
John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again.
— Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author
John Meaney has rewired SF. Everything is different now.
— Stephen Baxter
Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world…
— SFX
…one of British science fiction’s most original and exciting practitioners.
— Barnes & Noble