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Ken MacLeod Books In Order

The Fall Revolution Books In Publication Order

  1. The Star Fraction (1995)
  2. The Stone Canal (1996)
  3. The Cassini Division (1998)
  4. The Sky Road (1999)

Engines of Light Books In Publication Order

  1. Cosmonaut Keep (2000)
  2. Dark Light (2001)
  3. Engine City (2002)

The Corporation Wars Books In Publication Order

  1. Dissidence (2016)
  2. Insurgence (2016)
  3. Emergence (2017)

Gollancz Binary Books In Publication Order

  1. Leningrad Nights & How The Other Half Lives (By:Graham Joyce) (2000)
  2. Watching Trees Grow (By:Peter F. Hamilton) (2000)
  3. The Human Front & A Writer’s Life (2001)

The Web – 2028 Books In Publication Order

  1. Avatar (By:Pat Cadigan) (1998)
  2. Webcrash (By:Stephen Baxter) (1998)
  3. Cydonia (1998)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Human Front (2001)
  2. Newton’s Wake (2004)
  3. Learning the World (2005)
  4. The Execution Channel (2007)
  5. The Night Sessions (2008)
  6. The Restoration Game (2010)
  7. Intrusion (2012)
  8. Descent (2014)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Earth Hour (2011)
  2. Selkie Summer (2020)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Giant Lizards From Another Star (2006)
  2. Poems (With: Iain M. Banks) (2015)

Chapbooks In Publication Order

  1. The Highway Men (2006)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Year’s Best SF 11 (2006)
  2. Seeds of Change (2008)
  3. War and Space (2012)
  4. Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of UK’s Healthcare Workers (2020)

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Ken MacLeod Books Overview

The Star Fraction

Moh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory enhancing drugs, fleeing the US/UN’s technology cops. Jordan Brown is a teenager in the Christian enclave of Beulah City, dealing in theologically correct software for the world’s fundamentalists and wants out. In a balkanized twenty first century, where the ‘peace process’ is deadlier than war, the US/UN’s spy satellites have everyone in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans, and the lives of Moh, Janis, and Jordan are part of the program. A specter is haunting the fight for space and freedom, the specter of the betrayed revolution that happened before…
. With The Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod burst onto the SF scene and began the Fall Revolution sequence that continued with The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road.

The Stone Canal

Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object. Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remember his life on Earth as Jonathan Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear capability who was accused of losing World War III. This stranger also remembers one David Reid, who now serves as New Mars’s leader. Long ago, it turns out, Wilde and Reid had shared ideals and fought over the same women. Moving from 20th century Scotland through a tumultuous 21st century and outward to humanity’s settlement on a planet circling another star, The Stone Canal is idea driven sci fi at its best., making real and believable a future where long lives, strange deaths, and unexpected knowledge await those who survive the wars and revolutions to come.

The Cassini Division

Ken MacLeod is a science fiction sensation in his native Britain, widely compared to Vernor Vinge, Bruce Sterling, and Iain Banks, but with a storytelling energy all his own. The Cassini Division, his first novel to appear in America, displays his astonishing power and range. Ellen May Ngewthu is a young woman with centuries of experience, a soldier and leader of The Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around a mysteriously transformed Jupiter, are the front line in humanity’s long standoff with the unknowable posthumans godlike and remote beings descended from the people who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago. The posthumans’ capacities are unknown…
but we know they disintegrated Ganymede, we know they punched a wormhole into Jovian space, and we know that the very surface of the solar system’s largest planet has been altered by their incomprehensible artifacts. Worst of all, we know that they have been bombarding the solar system with powerful data viruses for generations. Now Ellen has a plan to rid humanity of this threat once and for all. But she needs to recruit the right people to her cause and convince them to mistrust the posthumans as much as she does. Her quest will take her to the mid Atlantic towers of Solar Union Earth, to the green ruins of London, and, in the farthest reaches of human space, to the long separated libertarian colony of New Mars. In the process, much will be revealed about history, about power, and about what it is to be human.

The Sky Road

Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship’s future from the dark archives of the past.A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced the end of a different space age her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenseless against the Sino Soviet Union. As Myra appealed to the crumbling West for help, she found history turning on her own strange past and on the terrible decisions she faces now. The Sky Road is a fireworks display, a bravura performance, and the most amazing novel yet by one of the powerful new voices in science fiction.

Cosmonaut Keep

Matt Cairns is a 21st century outlaw Programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency. But what Matt will discover there will propel him on an extraordinary and quite unexpected journey. Gregor Cairns is an exobiology student and descendant of one of Terra Nova’s first families. Hopelessly infatuated with a lovely young trader’s daughter, he is unaware that his research partner, Elizabeth, has fallen in love with him. Together, Gregor and Elizabeth confront the great work his family began three centuries earlier to rediscover the secret of interstellar travel. Ranging from a gritty near future Earth to a distant alien world, Cosmonaut Keep is contemporary science fiction at its highest level, a visionary epic filled with daring individuals seeking a place for themselves in a vast, complex, and enigmatic universe. Cosmonaut Keep is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.

Dark Light

A Tale of Humans In a Universe of Ubiquitous Alien LifeIntelligence, it turns out, is rare on planetary surfaces. It thrives everywhere else, from the Oort cloud fringes of star systems to the magma furnaces beneath planetary crusts. And among the most powerful of the galaxy’s intelligences, there are profound differences of opinion about how to deal with surface life forms such as human beings. For, untold light years from Earth, the powers that rule the universe have been, for millennia, plucking humans and other intelligent beings from Earth and forcibly resettling them in a number of star systems close to one another, leaving them to develop on their own. A few generations ago, a small cadre of humans from Earth s 21st century arrived in this Second Sphere on their own power the first humans ever to do so. Their descendants have formed the Cosmonaut class that dominates Mingulay. Now, two hundred years later, Gregor Cairns and a small group of associates have rediscovered faster than light travel and traveled to the star system next door. They re determined to find more of the original, mysteriously long lived cosmonauts. They want answers. And for those answers, they intend to interrogate the gods.

Engine City

The acclaimed Engines of Light series that began with Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light reaches its staggering conclusion in Engine City. Two hundred years ago, a starship arrived at Nova Babylonia and unloaded a cargo of encyclopaedic information from the solar system of the mid 21st century. One hundred years ago, Nova Babylonia had used that information to create a Modern Regime a heavily industrialised civilisation ready to defend itself against the aliens whose arrival was believed to be imminent. Today, Nova Babylonia is in decline. The alien invaders never came and the Regime has fallen. Into this corrupt city arrives an outsider whose purpose is ambiguous. But businessman or spy, he is not the only visitor. War is coming to Nova Babylonia. And the gods. Find out more about this and other titles at www. orbitbooks. co. uk

Leningrad Nights & How The Other Half Lives (By:Graham Joyce)

LENINGRAD NIGHTS by the World Fantasy Award nominated author of THE TOOTH FAIRY. A story of human dignity , the hunger for survival and a possibly angelic intervention set during the 900 day siege of Leningrad in WWII. HOW THE OTHER HALV LIVES by the Arthur C. Clarke Aawrd nominated author of DAYS. A modern Faustian tale. A business ensures his glittering success by the brutal abuse of his doppleganger, little suspecting that he is laying the foundations for his own destruction.

The Human Front & A Writer’s Life

THE HUMAN FRONT is a sparkling SF alternate history story set in world that has been fighting WWIII since 1949. Leading a guerilla campaign against the Western Forces is the heroic, myhtic figure of Joe Stalin. And above the battlefields flying saucers fill the skies.

The Human Front

The Human Front is a sparkling SF alternate history story set in world that has been fighting WWIII since 1949. Leading a guerilla campaign against the Western Forces is the heroic, myhtic figure of Joe Stalin. And above the battlefields flying saucers fill the skies.

Newton’s Wake

ACROSS THE UNIVERSEIn the aftermath of the Hard Rapture a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth’s artificial intelligences into godlike beings a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered. Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Skein, a chain of interstellar gates left behind by the posthumans. But on a world called Eurydice, a remote planet at the farthest rim of the galaxy, Lucinda stumbled upon a forgotten relic of the past that could threaten the Carlyles’ way of life. For, in the last instants before the war, a desperate band of scientists had scanned billions of human personalities into digital storage, and sent them into space in the hope of one day resurrecting them to the flesh. Now, armed, dangerous, and very much alive, these revenants have triggered a fateful confrontation that could shatter the balance of power, and even change the nature of reality itself.

Learning the World

Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light years of its half forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life. The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year journey. For its long lived inhabitants, the centuries have been busy. Now a younger generation is eager to settle the system. The ship is a seed pod ready to burst. Then they detect curious electromagnetic emissions from the system’s Earth like world. As the nature of the signals becomes clear, the choices facing the humans become stark. On Ground, second world from the sun, a young astronomer searches for his system’s outermost planet. A moving point of light thrills, then disappoints him. It’s only a comet. His physicist colleague Orro takes time off from trying to invent a flying machine to calculate the comet’s trajectory. Something is very odd about that comet’s path. They are not the only ones for whom the world has changed.’We are not living in the universe we thought we lived in yesterday. We have to start Learning the World all over again.’

The Execution Channel

It’s after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq war. After 7/7. After the Iran war. After the nukes. After the flu. After the Straits. After Rosyth. In a world just down the road from our own, on line bloggers vie with old line political operatives and new style police to determine just where reality lies. James Travis is a British patriot and a French spy. On the day the Big One hits, Travis and his daughter must strive to make sense of the nuclear bombing of Scotland and the political repercussions of a series of terrorist attacks. With the information war in full swing, the only truth they have is what they’re able to see with their own eyes. They know that everything else is or may be a lie.

The Night Sessions

A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it’s a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It’s been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Terrorism is history…
After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels after Armageddon and the Flood came the Great Rejection. The first Enlightenment separated church from state. The Second Enlightenment has separated religion from politics. In this enlightened age there’s no persecution, but the millions who still believe and worship are a marginal and mistrusted minority. Now someone is killing them. At first, suspicion falls on atheists more militant than the secular authorities. But when the target list expands to include the godless, it becomes evident that something very old has risen from the ashes. Old and very, very dangerous…

Giant Lizards From Another Star

Giant Lizards From Another Star is an anthology containing poems, short stories, convention reports, and essays, as well as the novellas ‘The Human Front’ and ‘Cydonia’.

The Highway Men

The weather has gone crazy and the war has spread to China. Jase, Euan and Murdo are laggers: forced workers in a future Scotland. The laggers are helping to lay a new power line in the Highlands. Ailiss, a young woman from a secret settlement in the frozen hills, is going to strain their loyalties to breaking point and beyond.

Year’s Best SF 11

This is the best short form science fiction of 2005, selected by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field. The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first nine volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of the year in mass market. Here, selected and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all star team of science fiction authors, ‘Year’s Best SF 11‘ is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.

Seeds of Change

Imagine the moment when the present ends, and the future begins when the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is thrust upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today’s most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, peak oil, technological advancement, and political revolution. Many serve as a call to action. How will you change with the future? These nine stories sow Seeds of Change across familiar and foreign territory, from our own backyards to the Niger Delta to worlds not yet discovered. Pepper, the mysterious mercenary from Tobias S. Buckell’s Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, works as an agent for change if the price is right in ‘Resistance.’ Ken MacLeod envisions the end game in the Middle East in ‘A Dance Called Armageddon.’ New writer Blake Charlton imagines a revolutionary advance in cancer research in ‘Endosymbiont.’ Award winning author Jay Lake tackles technological change and the forces that will stop at nothing to prevent it in ‘The Future by Degrees.’ Other stories by K.D. Wentworth, Jeremiah Tolbert, Mark Budz, Ted Kosmatka, and Nnedi Okorafor Mbachu range from the darkly satirical to the exotic. All explore the notion that change will come.

War and Space

The history of the world is the history of war. From feats of valor and loyalty to hideous violence and carnage, the human species has always been its own best rival and worst enemy. But out beyond the stars, the ultimate enemy awaits. The world’s future the future of the universe itself lies in the hands of the warriors who must use the weapons, take on the missions, make the decisions, assume the risk, and defeat the menaces, alien or otherwise, who would dare try to conquer!

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