Ken MacLeod





Ken MacLeod

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August 02, 1954

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Ken MacLeod is an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer.

His novels have won the Prometheus Award and the BSFA award, and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.

MacLeod graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics.

His novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism.

Technical themes encompass singularities, divergent human cultural evolution and post-human cyborg-resurrection.


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Next Thursday, 25 April at 6.30 pm. the Scottish Poetry Libraryhosts livereadings from the highly successful SF poetry anthology Where Rockets Burn Through, edited by Russell Jones.

This event will also include a short movie by Dan Warren based on Edwin Morgan'sSF poem, ‘In Sobieski's Shield’. The event will feature the following poets:

Ron Butlin
Pippa Goldschmidt
Andy Jackson
Kelley Swain
Claire A... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.69 · 10,534 ratings · 858 reviews · 52 distinct works · Similar authors
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3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 971 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Learning the World: A Scien...
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Dark Light (Engines Of Ligh...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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“If you're interested, you'll be there.”
Ken MacLeod

“The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.”
Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep

“Whatever the truth about the Deliverer, she will remain in my mind as she was shown on that statue, and all the other statues and murals, songs and stories: riding, at the head of her own swift cavalry, with a growing migration behind her and a decadent, vulnerable, defenceless and rich continent ahead; and, floating bravely above her head and above her army, the black flag on which nothing is written.”
Ken MacLeod, The Sky Road

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