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Fractions: The First Half of The Fall Revolution (The Fall Revolution #1,2)
by
Ken MacLeod
In a balkanized future of dizzying possibilities, mercenaries contend with guns as smart as they are, nuclear deterrence is a commodity traded on the open market, teenagers deal in "theologically correct" software for fundamentalists, and anarchists have colonized a planet circling another star. Against this background, men and women struggle for a better fu
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Published
October 28th 2008
by Orb Books
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This book contains the first 2 novels in MacLeod's "The Fall Revolution" series. The first one, The Star Fraction is a near-future cyberpunk-ish story set in a balkanized version of the UK after WW III. The second one, The Stone Canal A Novel, is partly set before the first novel and partly far in the future.
The Star Fraction reminded me of more politically-focused early William Gibson novel - but not in a good way. Despite having been written 10 years after Neuromancer...more
The Star Fraction reminded me of more politically-focused early William Gibson novel - but not in a good way. Despite having been written 10 years after Neuromancer...more
Credit for a sophisticated treatment of political ideology in fractured futures, including socialist and communist strains that you seldom see in sci-fi (outside of Robinson). But as novels they don't don't hold up well, for a few reasons. There is a disappointingly unrealistic portrayal of all these exotic political systems, so that you never really get a feel for the way that things actually work; they feel more like thought experiments than societies. The characters are rather thinly drawn, ...more
Star Fractions is a politically imaginative account on where high technology can potentially take the human race in the near future. If you're into politics (which I am), you get to see political theory through the lens of an European writer. Seeing things through that perspective makes it interesting enough for me. The book drags a little; but still somehow holds your attention due to MacLeod's skill for writing in a cyber-punk literary style. Additionally, you get a well worth reward at the en...more
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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.
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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.
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