Eugene Byrne (born 25 February 1959) is an English freelance journalist and fiction writer. His novel ThigMOO, and the story it was based on, were nominated for the BSFA award.^[1] His story "HMS Habakkuk" was nominated for a Sidewise Award for Alternate History.^[2]

He was born in Waterford in the Republic of Ireland, but was brought up in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. He attended Dr Morgan's Grammar School, Bridgwater where he met Kim Newman.

Byrne was a contributing editor to Venue magazine. In 2006, as part of Bristol's Isambard Kingdom Brunel bicentennial celebrations, he wrote Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Graphic Biography with artist Simon Gurr.^[3]

Novels

• Back in the USSA (1997), co-written with Kim Newman; fix-up comprising short stories first published in Interzone magazine
• Thigmoo (1999)
• Things Unborn (2001)

Non-fiction

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Graphic Biography, with artist Simon Gurr (2006)
• The Bristol Story: A Graphic and (Mostly) True History of the Greatest City in the World!, with artist Simon Gurr (2008)
• Darwin: A Graphic Biography, with artist Simon Gurr (2009)