Meet Dr. Alastair Wells: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Author Extraordinaire

Dr. Alastair Wells, an expert in genetic engineering with a PhD in mathematical modelling, is the creative mind behind The Autonomous Sequence (hard science fiction) and The Wild Files (urban fantasy)

About Our Author

Discover the thrilling worlds created by Dr. Alastair Wells.

Hi, I’m Alastair Wells. I used to think collecting degrees was a sensible hobby — molecular biology, virology, genetic engineering, and then, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, a PhD in mathematical modeling and economics. (It seemed like a good idea at the time. It wasn’t.)

My father was an English teacher and a traveling storyteller, which means I grew up knowing two things: words are powerful, and airports are confusing. So really, writing science fiction and fantasy was less a choice and more a cosmic inevitability.

These days, I live on a dead-end dirt road that feels suspiciously like the universe’s way of saying, “You’ve gone far enough.” I share it with a dog, a cat, a couple of curious children, my heroic partner, and the occasional stray flightless bird who looks like it’s lost a bet with evolution. It’s a good life — if you ignore the birds plotting something in the bushes.