Gary Gibson (born in 1965) is a science fiction author from Glasgow, Scotland.
After studying Sociology, History and Politics at the Glasgow Caledonian University, Gary Gibson worked as a "small press" comics magazine editor[1][2] before following courses in desktop publishing and design and subsequently freelancing as a graphic designer.
[4] Gary Gibson has been writing since the age of fourteen[2][3] and has published eight novels to date, four of which linked to each other to form the "Shoal Sequence".
[1][6] After publishing some short stories[6] Gary Gibson saw his first novel, Angel Stations, released in 2004 by Tor,[7] that was nominated in 2005 by the British Fantasy Society for the award for best novel of the year,[8] which was eventually won by Stephen King with The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower.
The series introduced the characters of Dakota Merrick, Lucas Corso and the alien Trader-in-Faecal-Matter-of-Animals, a fish-like member of the Shoal race, who rule all inhabited space through their exclusive knowledge of the secret of faster-than-light travel.