An Australian author who puts the Hard Science back into Hard Science Fiction. Likes to show his work. His novels are: * Quarantine - The solar system is locked in a bubble by aliens. People routinely use "neural implant" devices to rewire their brains. * Permutation City - Philosophical inquiry leads to the creation of a universe, simply by starting to simulate it and then turning the computer off. * Distress - Political intrigue surrounding the development of a Theory of Everything. * Diaspora - Faced with a natural disaster on a galactic scale, post-humans flee into another universe. * Teranesia - Through quantum computing, life becomes capable of mutating into the optimum form for its environment. * Schild's Ladder - Post-humans explore the interior of a sphere of