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Ken MacLeod (innate August 2, 1954), a Scottish science fiction writer, lives touching Edinburgh. He graduated from either Glasgow University with a degree inside zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis in biomechanics. His novels typically choose socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas. Technical indicator themes encompass singularities, divergent individual cultural evolution and post-human cyborg-resurrection.

He is section of the newly generation of British science fiction writers, world health organization specialise within tough science fiction & space opera. His coeval include Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross and Liz Williams.

His friend Iain Banks thanks him for his advice in his novel Use of Weapons, the structure of which is similar (but not monovular) to The Stone Canal.

Bibliography

Fall Revolution series
The Star Fraction (1995; US paperbacked ISBN 0765301563) The Stone Canal (1996; US paperbacked ISBN 0812568648) The Cassini Division (1998; US paperbacked ISBN 0312870442) The Sky Road (1999; US softback ISBN 0812577590) (Winner of the 1999 BSFA Best Novel Award) A Sky Road is an 'replacement new' to a more books, when its cases vary sharply from either victims in the more books when 2059, due to the guide processed other than by one of the protagonists.

Engines of Light trilogy
Cosmonaut Keep (2000; US paperbacked ISBN 0765340739) Dark Light (2001; US paperbacked ISBN 0765344963) Engine City (2002; US paperbacked ISBN 0765344211)

Other work

The Human Front (2002) (Winner of Short-form Sidewise Award 2002) ''Newton's Wake: A Space Opera (2004; US paperback edition ISBN 076534422X) Learning the World: A Novel of First Contact (2005; UK hardback edition ISBN 1841493430)

Criticism

A SF Foundation have published a book of criticism known as [http://www.sf-foundation.org/publications/kenmacleod.html The True Knowledge Of Ken MacLeod''] emended by Andrew M. Butler and Farah Mendlesohn. Too when critical essays it contains lesson by MacLeod himself, including his introduction to the German edition of Banks' Consider Phlebas.

Quotes

(In technological singularity): "...the rapture for nerds..." -- A Cassini Division "The uploads replicate and develop relationships. Most of them go very bad. You sometimes get an entire virtual planet of four billion people devoted to building prayer wheels in an attempt at a denial of service attack on God." -- ''Newton's Wake'' "... a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'" -- ''Newton's Wake''

SF after the Future Went Away
Critical essay about Science Fiction written by Ken MacLeod.

Trots in Space
2 interviews, short biography and quick review of the first 3 novels in the 'Fall Revolution' series

Salon Books | The downloadable boy
The downloadable boy: An excerpt from 'The Cassini Division'

The Early Days of a Better Nation
Ken MacLeod's Weblog

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