Ian Sales is a British science fiction writer, editor and founder of the SF Mistressworks website.
Although born in the UK, he grew up in the Middle-East, in Qatar, Oman, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
[citation needed] In the 1990s he was joint editor of The Lyre science-fiction magazine, which published work by authors such as Eric Brown, Stephen Baxter, Gwyneth Jones and Peter F Hamilton.
The final book of the quartet, a novel titled All That Outer Space Allows, was published in April 2015, and was selected for the James Tiptree, Jr Award honor list in April 2016.
Also published in April 2015 was the first book of a space opera trilogy, A Prospect of War.