Paul Birch (writer)

Paul Birch (25 May 1956 – 4 July 2012)^[1] was a British author, engineer and scientist, who worked in radioastronomy and satellite communications, and latterly wrote full-time.

He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and Trinity College, Cambridge and worked for Marconi Defence Systems and Plessey Radar.

He was a former Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.

He also notably worked on orbital rings^[2][3][4] and supramundane planets.^[5][6]

He stood for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in an election taking 11.3% of the vote.^[7] He was a Town Councillor in Cowes, Isle of Wight at the time of his death.

In 1982, Birch published a series of papers in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society which described orbital rings and described a form which he called Partial Orbital Ring System (PORS).^[2][3][4]