Jonathan D Beer is a science fiction and alternative history writer. Equally obsessed with the 19th century and the 41st millennium, he lives with his wife and assorted cats in the untamed wilderness of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of the Warhammer 40,000 novels Dominion Genesis and Tomb World, and has also written the Warhammer Crime stories 'Old Instincts', 'Service' and 'Chains', and the novel The King of the Spoil.