Alastair David Shaw Fowler CBE FBA was a Scottish literary critic, editor, and an authority on Edmund Spenser, Renaissance literature, genre theory, and numerology.
Robert Alastair Hannay is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo. Educated in Edinburgh and London, where he studied under A. J. Ayer and Bernard Williams and since 1961 resident in Norway. Hannay has written extensively on the writings of Søren Kierkegaard. His book "The Public" (2004) as well as examining the roles of the 'public' as audience and political participant, brings several Kierkegaardian insights to bear on contemporary political life. Hannay has written a novella (2020) and several pocket books on philosophical themes, as well as a memoir (2020). From 2006 to 2020 he was a member of the team translating Kierkegaard's complete journals and notebooks.
Alastair Hannay es un Profesor Emérito de Filosofía de la Universidad de Oslo. Nació en Plymouth, Inglaterra y reside en Noruega desde 1961. Ha escrito acerca y traducido varias obras de Kierkegaard. Es miembro de la Sociedad Real de Edimburgo. Sus padres eran escoceses.
Alastair Pennycook is an applied linguist. He is Emeritus Professor of Language, Society and Education at the University of Technology Sydney, and a Research Professor at the Centre for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan at the University of Oslo. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2016.
Alastair Preston Reynolds is a British science fiction author. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he studied physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews. In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette. There, he worked for the European Space Research and Technology Centre until 2004 when he left to pursue writing full-time. He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near Cardiff.
Alastair Preston Reynolds es un astrónomo, astrofísico y escritor de ciencia ficción británico. Como astrónomo trabajó en el Centro Europeo de Investigación y Tecnología Espacial (ESTEC) de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) y como escritor sus especialidades son la ciencia ficción dura y la ópera espacial.
