Ian R. MacLeod
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Ian R. MacLeod (born 1956) was born in Solihull, United Kingdom. He is a science fiction and fantasy author.
He is the author of the novels The Light Ages and The House of Storms, which are set in an alternate universe nineteenth century England, where aether, a substance that can be controlled by the mind, has ossified English society into guilds and has retarded technological progress.
MacLeod's first novel, The Great Wheel, was published in 1997, and won the Locus Award for the Year’s Best First novel.
MacLeod's shorter works have been collected in Breathmoss and Other Exhalations and Voyages by Starlight. His novella "The Summer Isles" won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 1998. The story also received the World Fantasy Award. Originally written at novel length, MacLeod published the shorter version, with the full-length version only being published in 2005. He won the World Fantasy Award again in 2000 for his novelette "The Chop Girl."
Novels
- The Great Wheel (Locus award winner)
- The Light Ages
- The House of Storms
- The Summer Isles
Interviews
- Interview conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com