Ken MacLeod was born on the Isle of Lewis and lives in Gourock. He is the author of seventeen novels, from The Star Fraction to The Corporation Wars, and many articles, short stories and poems. Aspects of the Christian religion have featured in his novels The Night Sessions and Descent, and in short stories including "A Case of Consilience," "A Tulip for Lucretius," and "Jesus Christ: Reanimator."  He has recently finished work on Orbit Books' forthcoming collection of Iain M Banks's drawings.