Background
Michael Cobley was born in Leicester but moved to Glasgow at the age of seven.
Michael Cobley was born in Leicester but moved to Glasgow at the age of seven.
University of Strathclyde.
While studying engineering at the University of Strathclyde, he used to work as a DJ. At the same time, he wrote rants for the University paper under the pen-name of Phaedrus. He has published five novels, a collection of short stories and several reviews and essays.
He has a strong interest in politics.
Cobley, who is a member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle, admits to have been influenced by diverse writers such as Frank Herbert, David Brin, Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod and Vernor Vinge, but also by music (Dmitri Shostakovich, Yes, Blue Öyster Cult, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Monster Magnet) and television shows (Firefly, Babylon 5, the most recent series of Battlestar Galactica).