Donald Cameron

Donald Cameron is the writer responsible for the basic ideas in T'Rain's bible. He is a professor at Cambridge and the author of a series of fantasy novels known as "Lay of the Elder King trillogy". A contract to deliver the 11th - 13th volumes of this series presented a scheduling conflict that led to Corporation 9592 hiring Devin Skraelin to pick up the slack.

Neal Stephenson has said that the two fantasy writers are both parodies of himself - "they're kind of like the angel and the devil that sit on my shoulders all day long trying to get my attention." (Geeks Guide to the Galaxy 47 12:20).