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	The Books Of Ken Macleod
		MacLeod drops the reader into the middle of the story and uses only a minimal amount of exposition which means that some thought is required to understand what is going on.
		MacLeod has an in-depth knowledge of some of the more unusual political ideologies (eg, libertarianism or communism) and several of them appear here, with either the societies or the character's motivations often being based on one of the political movements.
		MacLeod refuses to endorse or condemn any of the viewpoints, instead the reader is presumably being left to draw their own conclusions.
	www.wjmarnoch.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /macleod.html (3294 words)

	Ken MacLeod Book Reviews
		MacLeod's often dense and obtuse near-future political wrangling is intriguingly juxtaposed with some of the best technological extrapolation in the genre; MacLeod uses science fiction conventions (i.e., robots, androids and extraplanetary colonies) to deconstruct the machinations of allegiance and the role of personal volition in society.
		MacLeod's novel is consistently bold, laced with eye-popping scenery, moments of utter alien spookiness, and a delicious sense of humor.
		MacLeod is as good as they come: a techno-mongering satirist with an imagination as vast as the universe he depicts.
	www.mactonnies.com /kenmacleod.html (841 words)

	Salon Books \| A Trotskyist libertarian cyberpunk? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An excerpt from Ken MacLeod's "The Cassini Division."
		Ken MacLeod talks about his rebellious youth, his political paradoxes and the visionary power of cyberpunk.
		Well, one of the fixtures of Macleod's fiction is the fact that technology has advanced to the point where humans can perpetually rejuvenate their bodies.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/07/27/macleod_review (1039 words)

	Review: Engines of Light: The Gnostic Potboilers of Ken MacLeod, by Jeremy Smith
		Ken MacLeod is known as one of the most political of science fiction writers, his plots driven by the confrontation between collectivist and individualist social philosophies, a conflict in which he seems to continuously switch sides.
		It discards MacLeod's usual device of jumping between parallel stories separated by centuries, and he seems uncertain as to how to build suspense or sustain conflict without it, opting for a more-or-less linear tale of intrigue and adventure.
		Despite these caveats, MacLeod is still the most important science fiction writer to emerge in the past decade, and I am waiting to see if he can slow down long enough to write the great novel that I know he can.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030113/macleod.shtml (2145 words)

	Ken Macleod Dark Light Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Macleod uses the opportunity to muse at length about sexual identity and roles as he creates a society where sexual roles are chosen, not confined by sex.
		Macleod is extremely successful in parlaying this character and his action into a fascinating inversion of current sexual identity and mores, using him to drive the plot as the crew of Bright Star tries to recapture their starship, which is immediately impounded upon landing in the very Christian community of Croatan.
		This time around, Macleod lets Matt Cairns lead the action, as he spars with fellow immortal Volkov in trying to shape the politics of a world neither has lived in or is particularly interested in staying on.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/macleod-dark_light.htm (916 words)

	Ken Macleod Engines of Light Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Macleod plunges unto Fortean waters early on in the narrative when he lovingly and excitingly describes a first-contact with aquatic apes, a much-discussed subject in the annals of cryptozoology.
		Macleod's capable of subtle and deep thought however, and he gives it to the reader in such a concentrated doses, you'll spend as much time reading and digesting his tiny tomes as you will the book-bricks of his compatriots in the space opera game.
		Macleod is looking for something entirely different -- an idea gazpacho, a mélange of thoughts and suppositions that complement and enhance one another.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/macleod-engine_city.htm (906 words)

	SFF: Publications: Ken MacLeod
		Ken MacLeod is one of the most significant writers to emerge from British science fiction in the last decade.
		In addition there are contributions from Ken Macleod himself: a re-examination of fellow Scot Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas and a groundbreaking attempt to link Marxism, science fiction and the longing for apocalypse and utopia.
		Ken MacLeod is one of the major talents in contemporary British science fiction.
	www.sf-foundation.org /publications/kenmacleod.html (334 words)

	Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod, a science fiction book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		MacLeod writes of computer technology with authority, and describes the future in such convincing detail that he manages a high degree of verisimilitude.
		MacLeod is a capable ideas man, and a welcome addition to the field of science fiction as such, but my impression is that he has yet to develop the skill and artistry that I have admired in some of the other current British authors such as Iain M. Banks and Adam Roberts.
		Ken MacLeod (1954-) is a UK science fiction writer.
	members.aol.com /siure/macleod.htm (997 words)

	Plokta Issue 19 - Ken MacLeod: An Appreciation
		Asimov's SF Ken MacLeod graduated with a BSc in Zoology from Glasgow University in 1979.
		Formerly active in the British socialist left, MacLeod is also fascinated by and sympathetic to American free-market libertarianism, and in fact his novels concern human futures derived from both socialist and libertarian ideas.
		MacLeod avoids this by not reserving all the good lines for characters who agree with Ken MacLeod.
	www.plokta.com /plokta/issue19/ken.htm (754 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Stone Canal / Ken MacLeod
		Ken MacLeod's second book is a deeply compelling political SF novel that succeeds in every particular where his subsequent The Cassini Division can be said to falter.
		But MacLeod creates two fascinating foils in Reid and Wilde; their friendship is rocked by a lot of things, not the least of which is Reid's unsubtle attraction to Wilde's wife, Annette.
		MacLeod also gives short shrift to the development of his female characters in the present-day scenes; compared to the forceful Dee Model, who's seizing her newfound independence by the short and curlies, Annette makes little impression.
	www.sfreviews.net /stonecanal.html (837 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sky Road: Books: Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		MacLeod's readers are used to his quirky and intelligent take on the world of power politics and his charmingly cynical gift for engaging and engaged protagonists.
		The intellectual difficulty of MacLeod's work may prevent him from acquiring a mass readership, but his complex plotting, crisply delineated military action, well-drawn characters and trademark byzantine radical politics are sure to endear him to a growing number of aficionados.
		I have not read any of Ken McLeod's other books, and it is not clear from anything on the cover that The Sky Road is part of a series or that is necessary to have read any of its predecessors.
	www.amazon.ca /Sky-Road-Ken-MacLeod/dp/B0009WE1HM (1888 words)

	Strange Horizons Reviews: Two Views: Learning the World by Ken Macleod, reviewed by Niall Harrison and Dan Hartland
		Intricate shifts of power and purpose are, of course, typical of Ken Macleod’s novels; one of his greatest gifts as a writer is his ability to dramatise the processes of society, and to do so with a deftness that ensures his novels are intensely readable yet not oversimplified.
		Macleod’s earlier novels have been justly acclaimed for this sort of demonstration of politics: the wrangling of ideologies, and the struggle of individuals to effect change.
		Macleod is loudly and showily belaying the fore-down haul, splicing the mainbrace, and reheating the same old dilithium crystals.
	www.strangehorizons.com /reviews/2005/12/two_views_cit.shtml (2629 words)

	Ken Macleod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Interesting fact: So far, all of Ken Macleod's novels have begun with 'The', they're all three words long, and the second word always begins with the letter 'S'.
		Perhaps if Macleod slowed down a little, developed the story and side-characters a little more, and extended the book by 150 odd pages, this would have received Four Gold stars, no less.
		Evidently Macleod is going into the fray of SF sociology, with the Solar Union's pseudo-communistic society.
	www.vavatch.co.uk /books/macleod (590 words)

	Salon Books \| "An engine of anarchy" (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ken MacLeod, science fiction's freshest new writer, achieves the highly improbable with wit and style.
		Ken MacLeod is the greatest living Trotskyist libertarian cyberpunk science-fiction humorist.
		In Ken MacLeod's future, such political incongruities are a joyous fact of life.
	www.salon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /books/feature/1999/07/27/macleod_interview (2290 words)

	Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		‘Ken MacLeod has the ability to bring about a seamless transition from the recognisably conventional as is to the most outrageous science fictional what if ?, without appearing to break the creative equivalent of a sweat.
		Ken MacLeod graduated with a BSc in Zoology from Glasgow University in 1976.
		Ken MacLeod lives in West Lothian with his wife and children.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/kenmacleod.html (845 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Cosmonaut Keep (Engines of Light): Books: Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ken moved on to a new 'novelverse' with the Cosmonaut Keep series and all of a sudden he was a different writer.
		This was the first Ken Macleod book I read and it inspired me to go on and read much of his other work.
		Macleod includes some very interesting concepts such as the 'gods' which are confusing to start with but become more and more clear as the books proggress.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Cosmonaut-Keep-Engines-Light-MacLeod/dp/1857239865 (1931 words)

	Amazon.ca: Newton's Wake : A Space Opera: Books: Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ken Macleod may had created a few master pieces but this book can not be considerate as a part of it.
		Ken Macleod do ask questions about the possibility of uploading and downloading the mind and personality of a person thus insuring the reincarnation of decease person into a new body.
		Those are indeed interesting questions, however, Ken Macleod didn't seem to want bringing the debate to its conclusion or worst, didn't seem to wish sharing his own believe in the matter.
	www.amazon.ca /Newtons-Wake-Space-Ken-MacLeod/dp/076534422X (1642 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Star Fraction: A Fall Revolution Novel: Books: Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I think that Ken would be better trying to concentrate on a style of his own and attempt to leave behind the large influence of other (and IMO, better) sci-fi authors.
		MacLeod, for your end of book report you get an average grade C, and a "Kenneth is capable of better".
		Ken Macleod has brought politics back into SciFi in a way which is understandable to a broad audience and an absolute hoot for those of us who were active in the far-left politics of the early 70's he describes so well (in fact I think I was at half the meetings..).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Star-Fraction-Fall-Revolution-Novel/dp/1857238338 (1559 words)

	Amazon.de: Dark Light (Engines of Light): English Books: Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With his sharp, fast-paced, challenging novel Dark Light (sequel to the Prometheus Award-nominated Cosmonaut Keep in the Engines of Light series), Ken MacLeod reaffirms why he is science fiction's hottest new writer at the turn of the millennium.
		In this worthy second installment in MacLeod's Engines of Light series (after 2001's Cosmonaut Keep), human beings and a few other intelligent planetary species now know themselves to be little more than playthings, manipulated at will by the Powers Above.
		Ken MacLeod gehÃ¶rt zu den interessantesten Science Fiction Autoren unserer Zeit.
	www.amazon.de /Dark-Light-Engines-Ken-MacLeod/dp/1841491098 (857 words)

	BestSF.net Reviews Ken MacLeod's The Highway Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ken MacLeod has produced a string of well-regarded novels, none of which I have yet got round to reading, with only his recent short stories 'A Case of Consilience' (Nova Scotia, 2005 - BestSF review) and 'The Human Front' (PS Publishing 2000 - BestSF review) crossing my desk.
		As MacLeod states on his blog, it's a 'short SF novel set in a future Scotland (typical MacLeod stuff: climate change, imperialist war, libertarian grouch, Highland romance and insurrectionary violence'.
		Jase is leading a crew of laggers through the Scottish Highlands, and MacLeod effortlessly paints a picture of how society has changed in the light of the war, climate change, and government intervention, in a setting that he clearly holds close to his own heart.
	www.bestsf.net /reviews/macleodthehighwaymen.html (510 words)

	Ken MacLeod Organization
		The society was initiated by MacLeod in 1999 to compile a history of South Vancouver and South Vancouver/John Oliver High School.
		Ken with some of South Vancouver/John Oliver High's
		Ken on the Rhine cruise with a veteran's wife
	www.kenmacleod.org /otherveteransphotos.html (111 words)

	Amazon.com: The Stone Canal: A Novel (Fall Revolution): Books: Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Action-packed, inventive, and satisfyingly weird, Ken MacLeod's Stone Canal (the retroactively U.S.-released prequel to The Cassini Division) lets loose with a steady stream of challenging ideas and novel technology, taking on questions of free will, identity, and the nature of consciousness, all the while telling a bang-up story.
		British author MacLeod's second novel to be published in the U.S. (after The Cassini Division) opens on New Mars, a distant planet discovered on the other side of a wormhole, where humans resettled after Earth was decimated by World War III.
		MacLeod's writing is smooth and sure, full of striking images and breathtaking extrapolations of current technology.
	www.amazon.com /Stone-Canal-Novel-Fall-Revolution/dp/0812568648 (2072 words)

	Review
		We hadn't done an interview with Ken MacLeod since August '02, and with a new (to us anyway) book at hand, and having just seen him at Boskone, I thought it would be nice to catch up -- luckily Ken agreed.
		Ken: Justina Robson is a terrific writer in SF, and Steph Swainston is a new discovery in fantasy, as is Susanna Clark.
		Ken: I really enjoyed the con, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the NESFA folk for all they did, and for their wonderful hospitality.
	sfrevu.com /Review-id.php?id=3776 (1276 words)

	Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As before, MacLeod manages to paint a very convincing picture of the future, politics, science and society.
		This is MacLeod latest novel and also the first in a new series.
		As always, Ken has paid good attention to the political side of things.There was one political discussion in particular that made me laugh, as it was such a typical Usenet argument.
	www.cloggie.org /books/macleod.html (433 words)

	The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod, a Review » Solar Flare: Science Fiction News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is the third Ken MacLeod book I've read and the first one he wrote.
		This book is packed with ideas as MacLeod's writing always is. You may well find yourself disagreeing fervently with the viewpoints of some of the characters, but those viewpoints are entirely convincing and consistent for the people who hold them.
		Knowing that this was MacLeod's first novel and having read his later work, I tried really hard to spot some rough edges here.
	www.sflare.com /archives/the-star-fraction-by-ken-macleod-a-review (521 words)

	Amazon.com: The Star Fraction (Fall Revolution): Books: Ken MacLeod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A Ken MacLeod book is like a crowded college coffeehouse: noisy, bustling, a little rowdy, and packed with enough wild ideas and competing ideologies to leave you reeling.
		In general, MacLeod (The Cassini Division) is more adept at world building than at narrative, but he also possesses the rare talent of attracting readers who won't necessarily agree with the political agenda implicit in his fiction.
		I believe that I originally found Ken MaCleod's "Cosmonaut Keep" on the bookshelf at a store and found the description for it to be extraordinarily interesting.
	www.amazon.com /Star-Fraction-Fall-Revolution/dp/0765301563 (2312 words)

	SCI FI Wire \| The News Service of the SCI FI Channel (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		SF author Ken MacLeod, whose novel Learning the World just earned him his third Hugo Award nomination, told SCI FI Wire that this is the third award the book has been shortlisted for this year.
		MacLeod says he's read (and publicly enthused about) fellow nominees Accelerando and Old Man's War, but he hasn't read Spin or George R.R. Martin's series, so he couldn't comment on them.
		MacLeod is known for creating science-fiction-based societies that have logical political and economic systems, but building the world of Learning the World took some time, he said.
	www.scifi.com.cob-web.org:8888 /scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=35290 (556 words)

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