Ian McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He is the author of Luna: New Moon and Luna: Wolf Moon. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He now lives in Belfast.
Praise for Ian McDonald's Luna series McDonald's never written a bad novel, but Luna: New Moon is a great one. --Cory Doctorow With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. --Los Angeles Review of Books McDonald creates a complex and fascinating civilization featuring believable technology, and the characters are fully developed, with individually gripping stories. --Publishers Weekly, starred review