Gareth L. Powell

His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Czech, Catalan, and Croatian.

[5] Born and brought up in the West Country, Powell started writing sci-fi stories at an early age.

It compiles much of his short fiction from before 2008, including the Interzone reader's choice poll winner "Ack-Ack Macaque".

It was initially produced in a run of three hundred hardcover copies and an ebook edition, featuring the additional short story "Memory Dust", was made available by Anarchy Books.

Brown regarded the novel as a "fine hi-tech romp" but was critical of what he called "a rushed and melodramatic dénouement.

Brown said that the novel's set-pieces were "brilliantly realised" and that the book balanced its high concepts with the human story.