 After publishing some short stories Gary Gibson saw his first novel, "Angel Stations", released in 2004 by Tor, that was nominated in 2005 by the British Fantasy Society for the award of best novel of the year, award that was eventually won by Stephen King with "".He followed up the following year with "Against Gravity", also nominated by the British Fantasy Society for the best novel of the year award won that year by Neil Gaiman's "Anansi Boys".In 2007 Gibson published "Stealing Light", the first novel of the trilogy "The Shoal Sequence".