Michael wrote a smashing novel I read around 2016 called Seeds of Earth. A fascinating book with so many interactive alien species with intergalactic political issues and huge scope and interlocking plots.

Mike told me this to describe himself:

I'm half Scottish, half-English science fiction and fantasy writer, living and working in Ayrshire, Scotland. Born 1959, went to Clydebank High School, then on to Strathclyde University, studying production engineering (didnt graduate) - also wrote for the student paper, and volunteered as a DJ at the students union between 1979 and 1983 so I got all the punk and new wave stuff first hand! Started writing fiction seriously in 1985, first professional publication in the 'Other Edens' anthology in 1988, then a big gap until my first novel, Shadowkings, in 2000. That was volume one of my big bleak dark fantasy trilogy (grimdark before there was grimdark!), after which I switched to SF, leading to the publication of my space opera books, the Humanitys Fire trilogy. I wrote another two standalone novels set in the same setting as the trilogy (all published by Orbit), and am currently working on a completely new SF story/setting/character (which I refer to as Operation Badass).