Patrick S. Tomlinson

Patrick S. Tomlinson is an author of science fiction whose work spans hard-SF space opera and near-future thrillers. He is best known for the Children of a Dead Earth trilogy, which begins with The Ark and follows the last remnants of humanity aboard a generation ship after Earth's destruction, grappling with the practical and political problems of building a new society in space. He also writes The Breach series, a comic science fiction sequence beginning with Gate Crashers about first contact gone awkwardly wrong, and the near-future thriller In the Black. Tomlinson's fiction is known for pairing rigorous attention to orbital mechanics and hard-science plausibility with a comic, irreverent tone, a combination that has made his space-set adventures distinctive within the genre.