Colin Greenland (born 17 May 1954) is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition.

Colin Greenland attended Pembroke College, Oxford, eventually earning a BA, MA (1978), and DPhil (1981).

[2] Greenland's first published book, which was based on his DPhil dissertation, was a critical look at the New Wave entitled The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction (1983).

Besides his work on fiction, Greenland has continued to write non-fiction books and has been active in the Science Fiction Foundation, as well as serving on the editorial committee of Interzone.

His wife is the novelist Susanna Clarke, with whom he has lived since 1996.