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Brian Ruckley is a Scottish fantasy author and comic book writer. He is the author of The Godless World trilogy: Winterbirth, Bloodheir, and Fall of Thanes. He'd go on to become principal writer of the current Transformers: Generation 1 comic book series for IDW Publishing, following the conclusion of the previous continuity.

Brian Ruckley was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling. He lived for a time in London but is now based in Edinburgh again.

He is currently the author of eight published works.

Four are short stories; "Farm Animal" was printed in 1993 in the British science fiction magazine, Interzone No. 74, and "Gibbons" was printed in 1999 in issue No. 20 of the magazine The Third Alternative, now called Black Static. "Beyond the Reach of his Gods" appeared in the 2009 anthology Rage of the Behemoth from Rogue Blades Entertainment, and was reprinted in 2012 in the online science fiction and fantasy magazine Lightspeed. "Flint" appeared in the 2010 anthology Speculative Horizons from Subterranean Press.