Ian Irvine, an Australian marine scientist, has also written 32 novels and an anthology of shorter stories. His novels include the Three Worlds fantasy sequence (The View from the Mirror, The Well of Echoes and Song of the Tears), which has been published in many countries and translations and has sold over sold over a million copies, a trilogy of eco-thrillers in a world of catastrophic climate change, Human Rites, now in its third edition, and 13 novels for younger readers. His next fantasy novel is The Fatal Gate, Book 2 of The Gates of Good and Evil, a new Three Worlds trilogy, to be published in the US, UK and Australia by Orbit Books in June 2017.