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Bannister, Andrew

(1965-    ) UK author whose Spin trilogy beginning with Creation Machine (2016) is primarily set, at least initially, in the eponymous Macrostructure, a constructed ensemble of something like ninety planets revolving around twenty-one suns (see Stars), a vast complex assembled (and in a sense manufactured) by what may be a Forerunner civilization. The family-romance plot of the first instalment – dictatorial father plus rebellious daughter who flees through space to escape him and to inflict retribution – expands in later volumes to take more advantage of the overall venue. [JC]

Andrew Bannister

born 1965

works

series

Spin

• Creation Machine (London: Bantam Press, 2016) [Spin: hb/]
• Iron Gods (London: Bantam Press, 2017) [Spin: hb/Stephen Mulcahey]
• Stone Clock (London: Bantam Press, 2018) [Spin: hb/]

individual titles

• According to Kovac (Alconbury Weston, Cambridgeshire: NewCon Press, 2020) [in the publisher's NewCon Press Novellas series: hb/Chris Baker as Fangorn]

links

• Andrew Bannister
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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