Michael Scott Rohan, born in Edinburgh in 1951, writes both fantasy and
science fiction. Whilst studying law at Oxford, Rohan joined the SF
group and met the president, Allan J Scott, who started him writing for
the group’s semi-professional magazine SFinx alongside names such as
Robert Holdstock and Ian Watson. His first novel, Run to the Stars,
was published in 1983 and he collaborated with Allan J Scott on The
Hammer and the Cross, a non-fiction account of how Christianity arrived
in Viking lands. Rohan is best known for his acclaimed The Winter of
the World sequence, an epic fantasy set in and ice-bound world.