Ken MacLeod





Ken MacLeod

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August 02, 1954 in Stornoway, The United Kingdom

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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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Via i09, I see that the forthcoming Pyr edition of The Night Sessions is now available for pre-order. The cover, by Stephan Martiniere, is just ace - I've seen it before, of course, as editor Lou Anders took me through various stages of the design process, but this happens to be the first time I've seen it walking the mean streets by itself.

The book itself is a near-future police procedural, featu... read more »
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Average rating: 3.65 · 4,684 ratings · 480 reviews · 26 distinct works
Cosmonaut Keep (Engines Of Lig...
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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The Star Fraction (The Fall Re...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions
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Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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The Cassini Division (The Fall...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions
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The Stone Canal (The Fall Revo...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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Learning the World: a Scientif...
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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The Sky Road (The Fall Revolut...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions
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Engine City (Engines Of Light,...
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Dark Light (Engines Of Light,...
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions
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The Execution Channel
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 229 ratings4 editions
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The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Cassini Division The Sky Road The Fall Revolution
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“Carlyle spread her hands. ‘I speculated that it was the remains of the starship that took the Eurydiceans to the planet. This seems to have been borne out.’ She smiled. ‘It transmitted a defensive virus that contained Microsoft patches.”
Ken MacLeod, Newton's Wake: A Space Opera

“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

“If you're interested, you'll be there.”
Ken MacLeod

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