Colin Greenland attended
Pembroke College, Oxford, eventually earning a
BA,
MA (1978), and
DPhil (1981). Greenland's first published book, which was based on his DPhil dissertation, was a critical look at the
New Wave entitled ''
The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction (1983). His most successful fictional work is the Plenty series that starts with Take Back Plenty
and continues with Seasons of Plenty
(1995), The Plenty Principle
(1997) and Mother of Plenty'' (1998). Besides his work on fiction, Greenland has continued to write non-fiction books and has been active in the
Science Fiction Foundation, as well as serving on the editorial committee of
Interzone. He has been a guest speaker at four separate
Microcons: 1988, 1989, 1993 and 1994. His wife is the novelist
Susanna Clarke, with whom he has lived since 1996. He is good friends with
Neil Gaiman, and is frequently cited among Gaiman's acknowledgments pages. ==Bibliography==