About the Author
Andrew Hayward spent thirty years in technology, IT and software, latterly leading businesses in the sector. The Drowned Age grew out of that: a long acquaintance with institutions — how they keep faith, how they lose it, and what they do to the people inside them while everyone behaves reasonably. It is a saga about a flooded world, but it is mostly about organisations, records, and who gets believed.
He has read science fiction, fantasy and thrillers for as long as he can remember, and the sequence borrows from all three: the scale of science fiction, the deep history of fantasy, and the forward pull of thrillers.
The work
The Drowned Age is complete — eleven novels and four companion volumes, written through to the end before any of it was published. The four collections span seven centuries, and each was built to be entered from the front.
Next is The Ordinary Dawn, a completed trilogy set in the near future and entirely separate from the Drowned Age — no shared world, no shared characters. The Drowned Age itself continues in a second movement, beginning with The Glass Moon.
Elsewhere
He splits his time between Buckinghamshire and Cornwall — one of which has rather more coastline than the other, which may explain something.
