Gavin G. Smith is the Dundee-born author of the hard edged, action-packed SF novels Veteran, War in Heaven, Age of Scorpio, A Quantum Mythology and The Beauty of Destruction, as well as the short story collection Crysis Escalation. He has colloborated with Stephen Deas as the composite personality Gavin Deas and co-written Elite: Wanted, and the shared-world series Empires.