Senan Mahon is a science-fiction author based in Ireland. He is a professional software developer, who has had a distinguished career spanning almost thirty years, on a diverse range of projects for both corporate and public sector clients. In 2020, he published his novella "Consequential" which imagined a pandemic with a very different outcome to the one we are all familiar with. He followed this up in 2023 with a novel 'The Blue Race', a breath-taking space opera about the struggle to dominate the galaxy.