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	Ian R. MacLeod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ian R. MacLeod (1956-) was born in Solihull, United Kingdom.
		He is the author of the novels The Light Ages and The House of Storms, which are set in an alternate universe nineteenth century England, where aether, a substance that can be controlled by the mind, has ossified English society into guilds and has retarded technological progress.
		MacLeod's first novel, The Great Wheel, was published in 1997, and won the Locus Award for the Year’s Best First novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_R._MacLeod (191 words)

	Golden Gryphon Press - Breathmoss Review
		Long poetic sentences, long poetic paragraphs: MacLeod is a poet of English land- and city-scapes, and when he moves offworld, his painterly eye is inventive enough that his style is not crimped at all.
		The tale he quintessentially tells is that of a pair of lovers, one of whom is bound to mundane specificity, a quality in conflict with the other's devotion to experiencing the wider universe as generously and passionately as possible.
		But whether that is the case or not, MacLeod's fancy roams gloriously free in these stories, and its synergy with his command of the textures of ordinary life makes Breathmoss a brilliant book, the schisms in its creative heart luminously reconciled.
	www.goldengryphon.com /revbreath1.html (542 words)

	Ian R. Macleod The Light Ages Reviewed By Rick Kleffel
		Macleod's powerful, poetic writing manages to create an England that never was, and simultaneously turns the reader's world into something that need not ever have been.
		Macleod's novel is based on the premise that somewhere back in what we'd call the Dark Ages, an Englishman discovered that you could mine aether, a sort of magic-power source.
		Macleod lets the plot wander about a bit, and occasionally it gets away from him; on one occasion a character is introduced twice, with the more complete history coming the second time around.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/macleod-the_light_ages.htm (953 words)

	Review
		I was greatly impressed by Ian R. MacLeod?s 2003 novel, The Light Ages, in particular the visionary central conceit around which that novel took place.
		With her son on the mend, Alice returns to her manipulations and MacLeod deftly turns her from caring mother into the antagonist of the novel (a switch that is cleverly done).
		MacLeod, glorious though his prose is, devotes much time to great passages of hopeless wandering and the reader must trudge along with the characters through swathes of mud and toil.
	www.sfrevu.com /Review-id.php?id=2433 (720 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MacLeod specifically urges the reader not to simply consider fascism, but all forms of "social madness.") It's important to remember that long before the late arrivals, the Americans, showed up to combat Nazi Germany, the British, French, Soviets and other Allies had long been fighting a brutal war.
		MacLeod to suggest what happened to Germany could happen to Britain must be, to the British, utterly appalling.
		MacLeod's novel is a much better example of anti-totalitarian literature, a sometimes subtle and always brutal examination of the nature of human complicity.
	www.ideomancer.com /main/vol4issue2/review/one.html (3174 words)

	The SF Site: A Conversation With Ian R. MacLeod
		Ian R. MacLeod was born in Solihull, near Birmingham, in the West Midlands in 1956.
		Ian R. MacLeod lays it all out in the preface to his latest collection of short stories, Breathmoss and Other Exhalations, from Golden Gryphon Press.
		But there's no question that MacLeod is at least as keen to re-invigorate familiar themes and forms as he is to break fresh ground in the territory of fantastical literature.
	www.sfsite.com /08a/im181.htm (4154 words)

	On the Spot at Fantasybookspot: Ian R. Macleod \| Fantasybookspot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Macleod’s work was the The Light Ages; the 2004 Nebula Nominess for Best novel made me an instant fan, and the story continues in a release earlier this year, The House of Storms.
		Macleod garnered the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, with Summer Isle (also nominated for the Hugo), a novella that this year we will see in its full length novel version, released by AIO Publishing.
		Macleod for joining us on this edition of On the Spot, and wish him good luck on his forthcoming work, and hope he decides to come back and chat with us about them in the future.
	www.fantasybookspot.com /?q=node/view/196 (1713 words)

	Ian R. Macleod The House of Storms Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		MacLeod throws the switch, pulls the plug and turns in an electrifying novel of people who willingly and unwillingly serve as conduits for powers they can only begin to comprehend.
		MacLeod even offers a glimpse of entertaining ordinariness in the life of Marion, the "shoregirl" who grows in the length of the narrative into a force that even the Great Grandmistress Alice Meynell must reckon with.
		MacLeod's world and his novel are chock-a-block with ideas as intriguing as his characters and plots.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/macleod-house_of_storms.htm (1011 words)

	Books \| Power games
		One such person is Ian R MacLeod, a seasoned, gritty writer with a great depth of knowledge and understanding, who could teach us all a thing or two about writing a damn good tale.
		This is not down to any lack of skill on his part as a writer; it is the very vastness of the world that MacLeod creates that leaves you breathless and a little lost.
		MacLeod is set to become a writer of the magnitude of Dickens or Tolkien, yet I fear his work will not be truly appreciated for a generation to come.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5134645-99935,00.html (748 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| John Clute on Ian R MacLeod's The Light Ages
		It is not believed that their redundancy notices made any mention of the fact that the savings so generated would help pay for the promotion bonus accorded the man whose incompetence as chief executive had been threatening their workplace, and who had just now fired them.
		In MacLeod's tale, which is not very precisely dated, that fossilzation has taken centuries to mature; and what appears to be a nineteenth century steampunk venue is in fact at least a century later.
		The secret of the power of those in command, the unguent which has hamstrung history, is aether, which MacLeod never describes in terms unambiguous enough to get a fix on, but which could be described a kind of gas or charge which is extracted from underground veins.
	www.infinitematrix.net /columns/clute/clute4.html (1224 words)

	Ex Libris Book Reviews: The Light Ages - Ian R. MacLeod
		Author Ian MacLeod introduces his main character Robert Burrows at the closing of the third century of this age of aether.
		Society doesn't really progress much as those with power and wealth, secure in their position, live off the labors of the workers who mine the magical aether, and suffer its effects.
		MacLeod is an excellent writer, and now that I understand what the story is about, I'm re-reading the book just to enjoy the writing.
	www.elise.com /books/el/archives/the_light_ages_ian_r_macleod.php (392 words)

	Ian R. MacLeod, The Light Ages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ian R. MacLeod is most definitely a talented writer capable of making his words dance across the written page, but I have to admit I found The Light Ages a slow, sometimes frustrating read.
		Since MacLeod's main emphasis in this novel seems to be a careful critique of man and society, Robert's transformation would seem to have offered the author a perfect means of pursuing his loftier goals for the story.
		There were moments when MacLeod succeeded in demonstrating the common humanity of the wealthy guildmen and unguilded marts such as Robert, yet no individual's real self seemed to emerge from these pages.
	www.rambles.net /macleod_lages03.html (641 words)

	sffworld.com - December '04 BOTM: The Light Ages by Ian R. MacLeod
		The central mystery, What happened on the Engine Floor that day twenty years ago, was interesting, and MacLeod parcelled the information out about it in just enough quantity to keep me interested throughout.
		My own take on the political aspect of the book, which Erf touched on, was that it was basically reactionary in one sense - that it ultimately says, as far as revolutions go, 'say hello to the new boss - same as the old boss'.
		It seems to say that change is incremental - the new order in MacLeod's alternate England may be marginally more humane than the old one - and an overnight transformation is simply not a realistic goal.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=9055 (2937 words)

	The Summer Isles
		Ian R. MacLeod’s The Summer Isles combines the profound melancholy of Orwell with the precise observance of Graham Green.
		Bursting with the somber humanity of its narrator, the novel and its imagined millieu are charged with such emotional clarity, they seem artifacts of a history truer than the one we know.
		A powerfully gripping story of a closeted homosexual trying to survive in an alternate history London, Hugo finalist Ian R. MacLeod's novella The Summer Isles took readers by storm in 1998.
	www.ianrmacleod.com /html/the_summer_isles.html (136 words)

	Michael Swanwick Online: Profile of Ian R. MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MacLeod, however, has been around just long enough that he is starting to come into focus.
		MacLeod's worlds have that rare and wonderful quality of being spacious enough to contain everything--joy and despair, children and skyscrapers and power breakfasts, small jokes and great empires, wooden ships and surgical lasers alike.
		MacLeod's best work is characterized by high contrast, a mixture of horror and enchantment, of fierce anger and great beauty.
	www.michaelswanwick.com /nonfic/macleod.html (837 words)

	ParanormalRomance Reviews: Ian R. MacLeod, The Light Age Review
		Ian R. MacLeod has written a fascinating work that brings something unique and refreshing to the genre.
		In a bleak and gritty England, in a fantastical Age of Industry, the wealth that comes from magic is both revered and reviled.
		From a new star on the fantasy scene who offers something "truly out of the ordinary,"* this is a literary experience that evokes a moody, atmospheric past-while at the same time speculating on a fascinating alternate vision of that world.
	pnr.thebestreviews.com /book5612 (364 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Light Ages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Having written brilliant shorter fiction, Ian R MacLeod really comes of age in this massive novel which mixes Dickens and Peake.
		Ian R. MacLeod is a terribly exciting writer as anyone know who has waited for a new story of his to hit the newsstands.
		Macleod strength lies in his brilliant prose, amazing color and intense poetic emotions.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0441010555 (1004 words)

	Ian R. MacLeod -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ian R. MacLeod -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Ian R. MacLeod (1956-) was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Solihull) Solihull, (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom.
		He is a writer who focuses mainly on the (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction and (Imagination unrestricted by reality) fantasy genres.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ia/ian_r._macleod1.htm (106 words)

	Ian R. MacLeod, Breathmoss and Other Exhalations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ian R. MacLeod is an intimate lover of the run-on sentence, and his rambling paragraphs, coupled with sharp interjections of sci-fi terminology (some woefully unexplained, some revealed all too meticulously) make for one long, frustrating, and wholly unpleasant read.
		By the time one comes to the stretched-out end of one of these aggravatingly long-winded tales, the desire to comprehend the story itself is lost, replaced with a single-minded determination to safely navigate the thorny maze of MacLeod's prose.
		The later category still suffers somewhat from MacLeod's garbled sentence structure, but the going is somewhat easier as the relatively contemporary settings (at least compared to the far-off future of the Thousand and One Worlds) reduce the amount of incomprehensible made-up jargon.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_macleod_breathmoss.html (559 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Light Ages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As this is MacLeod's first novel, though, I personally cannot help but wonder if he tried too hard to reach a lofty pinnacle of success.
		Since MacLeod's main emphasis in this novel, at least as it appeared to me, was a careful and close critique of man and society, Robert's transformation would seem to have offered the author a perfect means of pursuing his loftier goals for the story.
		The Light Ages is not a cheerful, inspirational story, but I don't think it tries to be; personally, I'm not entirely sure what the novel was intended to be, and that is the source of my own dissatisfaction of sorts with what could have potentially been a truly insightful, socioeconomically challenging novel.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441011497?v=glance (2251 words)

	Emerald City - #114
		There are mentions of the Continent of Thule away across the ocean to the West, of the Fortunate Isles where sugar is grown for Britain by fl slaves, and of Mexico, whose native rulers fought off the Conquistadors thanks to their mastery of Aether.
		MacLeod’s descriptions of the war are some of the best parts of the book.
		Sometimes I think that Ian MacLeod is a far worse cynic than I am.
	www.emcit.com /emcit114.shtml (18509 words)

	Powell's Books - Breathmoss and Other Exhalations by Ian Macleod
		In "Verglas," a man must decide to leave his humanity by going native on an ice world or abandon his family.
		"MacLeod is rapidly becoming one of the contemporary stars of the genre." (-Brian Aldiss)
		Ian R. MacLeod is the author of The Great Wheel, The Light Ages, and Voyages by Starlight.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1930846266-0 (386 words)

	Tangent Online: SF by Starlight "The Summer Isles" by Ian R. MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But every so often another voice speaks--a voice of invocation, a calling-in that reminds us that the heart of wonder lies closer to ourselves, in those things that are both beautiful and breathtakingly human.
		In "The Summer Isles," the Allies are defeated in World War I, and the humiliations visited upon Germany during the 1920s--the forced admission of guilt, the disarmament, the reparations and hyperinflation--instead are inflicted on Great Britain.
		The war intervenes, and during the reign of the Empire Alliances those magical isles become a dumping ground for the Jews, carrying them to their deaths under the lie that they are going to a better place.
	www.sff.net /people/torhyth/tangent/others/sfstar03.htm (1150 words)

	The Light Ages - Ian R. McLeod
		Eventually of course, the often-whispered about troll-man must be called, and his mother is taken away.
		Robert swiftly runs into trouble in London, and is taken in by a minor thief and political agitator.
		Following a humiliation during a high society event, Robert flees from the bewildering and bewitching Anna and back to his revolutionary friends, back to writing fiery articles on the grimy presses to rouse the working classes.
	dialspace.dial.pipex.com /town/pipexdsl/p/apuo30/C2025243227/E1398891952 (1152 words)

	Ian MacLeod - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Ian MacLeod - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Ian R. MacLeod was born and has lived most of his forty years around Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
		He is the author of the novel The Great Wheel and his short fiction has appeared in Interzone, Asimov's, and Fantasy and Science Fiction, and has been widely anthologized and translated.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000059515,00.html?sym=BIO (74 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Breathmoss and Other Exhalations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MacLeod uses Science Fiction and Fantasy to examine the human condition.
		These are classic short stories that harken back to an earlier time, where plot, setting and character all are given equal importance-a breath of fresh air from the 'epiphany' fiction that currently crowds mainstream magazines.
		The plot twists and turns of the story are amazing, and MacLeod captures the voice of a repressed homosexual, and the since of dangerous desire, very well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1930846266?v=glance (1220 words)

	Locus Online: Ian R. MacLeod interview excerpts
		Ian R. MacLeod took a law degree and worked in Civil Service before making his first sale, Nebula nominee "1/72nd Scale", in 1990.
		The ‘70s were a very good time to be reading SF, because SF was evolving.
		When I’d enjoyed Asimov, I could move on to Roger Zelazny and Samuel R. Delany and J.G. Ballard and so on.
	www.locusmag.com /2003/Issue11/MacLeod.html (831 words)

	Ian R. MacLeod: The Summer Isles
		In 1998, Ian R. MacLeod published a novella entitled "The Summer Isles." The novella went on to win the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the World Fantasy Award.
		While the most important to the plot is his discovery of his own relationship with the young John Arthur, the questions his connections raise drive the story.
		In addition to being the tale of Brooke and Arthur, as the earlier story was, the novel presents more of a cautionary tale that everyone must maintain diligence in order to defeat the ever present dangers of tyranny and despotism, no matter how freedom loving a country's rhetoric may be.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/summerisles.html (527 words)

	Powell's Books - The Light Ages by Ian R Macleod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Borrows runs away from Bracebridge, West Yorkshire, only to find that he cannot run from the magical secrets of his past.
		Ian R. MacLeod is the winner of the Asimov Readers Award as well as the World Fantasy Award for his short story "The Chop Girl." His novella length version of "The Summer Isles" also won the World Fantasy Award.
		He is the author of The Great Wheel and Voyages by Starlight, a collection of short stories.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=26490&cgi=product&isbn=0441010555 (189 words)

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