Bøger af Ken MacLeod

The first short story collection in 18 years from Ken MacLeod, featuring his finest work from that period, as selected by the author, plus a brand new story written especially for this collection.The collection is further enhanced by stunning cover art from artist Fangorn, who has also provided illustrations within the book to accompany many of the stories (three of which are shown below).Ken MacLeod is one of the finest science fiction authors writing today; politically astute, thought-provoking, and always entertaining, his work has won him many awards (BSFA, Sidewise, Prometheus, Seiun) and has been shortlisted for many more.Fangorn is a multiple award-winning cover artist and Hollywood conceptual artist, having worked with many of the the industry's top filmmakers - Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, etc - and on franchises including Star Wars and James Bond. Two exceptional talents in one book.Content:Nineteen Eighty-NineLighting OutWilson at WokingSidewindersThe Surface of Last ScatteringThe Vorkuta Event'The Entire Immense Superstructure': An InstallationThe Last WordFat Man in the Bardo[citation needed]The Shadow MinistersThe ExcommunicatesA Jura for JuliaAbout the Author

"Un viaje trepidante, a través de pasajes de audaz complejidad, ingenio irreverente y paradojas tan intencionadas como juguetonas" - GUARDIANLa Segunda Esfera está a miles de años luz de la Tierra, donde los rusos continúan su avance por Europa en un conflicto bélico sin aparente fin. Pero para Matt Cairns y los cosmonautas de la Estrella Brillante, este lejano rincón de la galaxia es su nuevo hogar. Pero la Segunda Esfera es también el hogar de otras civilizaciones alienígenas creadas por los dioses. En Croatan, dos de estas civilizaciones viven una coexistencia precaria, y la llegada de la Estrella Brillante es un acontecimiento que puede desencadenar el desastre. Porque, ocultos entre las estrellas, los dioses siguen vigilando su creación... y no toleran disenso alguno. Una historia de humanos en un universo de vida extraterrestre omnipresente, esta es la segunda entrega de la saga de ciencia ficción Engines of Light.La saga Engines of Light, de Ken MacLeod, es un claro homenaje a la ciencia ficción de la Edad Dorada del género, con aventuras espaciales, civilizaciones más allá de las estrellas, colonizaciones interplanetarias y un sentido de la maravilla pocas veces igualado entre sus contemporáneos.Ken Mcleod es un autor escocés nacido en 1954. Cultivador de la ciencia ficción de sabor más clásico con influencia directa de la llamada Edad de Oro del género en los años 60 del siglo XX, sus obras le han valido premios como el BSFA, así como nominaciones a los prestigiosos Campbell, Nebula, Hugo y Arthur C. Clarke. Ha sido traducido a varios indiomas incluyendo español, italiano o polaco.

The Fermi have departed from the rocky worlds, but they still haunt the gas giants. Their long-term intentions remain unknown. Hurled into the past by a time-slip, John Grant and his onboard AI navigate the long way back. They return to the present in a distant system, where they find Terre Nouveau, a human settlement already two hundred years old. Grant's ship takes this astounding news to the far-roving Station, where Nayak has found new problems and a new lover. As the Station explores Terre Nouveau's system, they encounter intelligent species far older than humanity, who are just as perplexed about the origins and intentions of the Fermi--a cosmic network of alien minds--as they are. On Apis, rogue agent Marcus Owen rallies the native intelligent life against the human settlers, and passes on a warning from the Fermi: the humans must stop encroaching--or else. Myles and Marie take Owen's warnings seriously. Other settlers are not convinced, and conflict erupts. Owen is sent on a new mission, to Terre Nouveau's colorful and verdant sister planet, where he finds that his arrival, and humanity's, has been awaited longer than he expects. As Earth's empires--and other contenders--jostle for advantage around Terre Nouveau, John Grant works hard to expand his own business empire, in unexpected directions. But no one is prepared for how far the Fermi are willing to go--or for the unfolding of an audacious plan, millennia in the making, that reaches beyond the light horizon.

Issues 18-24 of the individualist / anarchist / libertarian / egoist ... magazine Non Serviam; issues with complete sets of articles from the publication's last period.

Science Fiction Magazine featuring short stories, poetry, artwork, articles, reviews. The SF Caledonia special, featuring stories from Scottish writers.Beth Nuttall Callum McSorley Cat Hellisen David Tam McDonald Ely Percy Eric Brown Katy Lennon Ken MacLeod Laura Scotland Laura Watts Moira McPartlin Richard Gregson TH Dray

La aclamada serie Engines of Light que comenzó con El Torreón del Cosmonauta y Luz Oscura llega a su broche final con Ciudad Motor.Durante diez mil años, Nueva Babilonia ha sido la mayor ciudad de la Segunda Esfera, una civilización interestelar de seres humanos y de otros seres venidos del confín del universo.Ahora han llegado humanos de los confines de la Segunda Esfera para ofrecerles la inmortalidad e instarles a construir defensas contra la invasión alienígena que saben que se avecina.Mientras humanos y alienígenas compiten y conspiran, las ruedas de la historia moldearán a todos los jugadores en formas nuevas y sorprendentes. La invasión alienígena llegará por fin a Nueva Babilonia, liderada por una figura que nadie espera...La saga Engines of Light, de Ken McLeod, es un claro homenaje a la ciencia ficción de la Edad Dorada del género, con aventuras espaciales, civilizaciones más allá de las estrellas, colonizaciones interplanetarias y un sentido de la maravilla pocas veces igualado entre sus contemporáneos.Ken Mcleod es un autor escocés nacido en 1954. Cultivador de la ciencia ficción de sabor más clásico con influencia directa de la llamada Edad de Oro del género en los años 60 del siglo XX, sus obras le han valido premios como el BSFA, así como nominaciones a los prestigiosos Campbell, Nebula, Hugo y Arthur C. Clarke. Ha sido traducido a varios indiomas incluyendo español, italiano o polaco.

Comienza una de las epopeyas más emocionantes de la ciencia ficción contemporánea, un digno heredero de Dune o Tropas del Espacio.Los rusos han "invadido" Europa occidental y la guerra fría y la carrera para la conquista del espacio con los americanos parece repetirse al igual que en los años sesenta del siglo XX. Sin embargo, esta vez las tropas han alcanzado el Atlántico y sus cosmonautas exploran los asteroides. Ahora les aguardan las estrellas... Pero alguien se les adelanta: Matt Cairns, un programador renegado con un gran conocimiento en inteligencias artificiales, recibe a regañadientes el encargo de colarse en la estación espacial secreta Mariscal Titov sin saber que lo que aguarda en su interior pondrá su vida patas arriba.Todo salta por los aires cuando Matt descubre pruebas de contacto con inteligencias extraterrestres, lo cual lo lanza a una odisea a través del tiempo y del espacio junto a su companera Jacey, para averiguar la verdad más allá de las estrellas. La saga Engines of Light, de Ken MacLeod, es un claro homenaje a la ciencia ficción de la Edad Dorada del género, con aventuras espaciales, civilizaciones más allá de las estrellas, colonizaciones interplanetarias y un sentido de la maravilla pocas veces igualado entre sus contemporáneos.Ken Mcleod es un autor escocés nacido en 1954. Cultivador de la ciencia ficción de sabor más clásico con influencia directa de la llamada Edad de Oro del género en los años 60 del siglo XX, sus obras le han valido premios como el BSFA, así como nominaciones a los prestigiosos Campbell, Nebula, Hugo y Arthur C. Clarke. Ha sido traducido a varios indiomas incluyendo español, italiano o polaco.

"THE FERMI ARE AWAKE. With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is nowhere that humanity cannot go. New worlds are discovered, but with them come new dangers. At the heart of their discovery is the Fermi, ruins of alien technology thought to be abandoned. But now the Fermi are awakening, and they do not seem pleased to find humans in their midst."--Provided by publisher.

"Mathematician Lakshmi Nayak receives a letter from her future self about faster-than-light travel. The equations work, and the letter itself seems to prove the possibility will someday be realized. But her paper on the topic is fiercely criticized, and she's warned away by a sinister Alliance agent. After defecting to the Union, she gets an unexpected offer: 'I can build your ship.' Shipbuilder John Grant learns of a secret project, which unknown to the world has been traveling to the stars for decades: Black Horizon. Biologist Emma Hazeldene works for Black Horizon on an alien world, Apis, whose life has clearly come from Earth, investigating rock formations that are thought to be an alien, crystal-like intelligence. But refugees exiled to a hard life in the wilds of Apis already know more than the scientists have ever suspected. Everything changes when the rocks wake up, with dire results. As secrets emerge and rival powers seize advantage, three worlds are shaken to their foundations -- and all involved have to fight for their lives, and their futures."--

Combining international intrigue with cutting-edge philosophical speculation, romance with adventure, and online gaming with real-life consequence, this delivers as a sharp take on our present world from the viewpoint of a complex, engaging heroine.

Award Winning Science Fiction MagazineNew short stories, poetry, art and non-fiction

Now back in print, this volume comprises The Cassini Division and The Sky Road, the last two books of The Fall Revolution, Ken MacLeod's groundbreaking, multiple award-winning science fiction epic.The Cassini Division: In the 24th century, post humans, god-like descendents of humans who transformed themselves with high technology, have warped the very fabric of the solar system for unknowable reasons. Ellen May Ngewthu has a plan to rid humanity of these beings, but she must first travel the entirety of the Solar Union, convincing others that post-humans are the threat she knows they are...The Sky Road: Her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenseless against the Sino-Soviet Union, Myra Godwin appeals to the crumbling West for help as she faces the end of the space age. And, centuries in the future, as humanity again reaches into space, a young scholar could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past.The Sky Road won the British Science Fiction Association Award.The Fall Revolution Series:1. The Star Fraction2. The Stone Canal3. The Cassini Division 4. The Sky Road

Now back in print, this volume comprises The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal, Ken MacLeod's landmark modern science fiction series, the first half The Fall Revolution.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 future against the betrayals that went before. Death is sometimes the end, and sometimes something altogether different...Both The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal won the Prometheus Award on their original publication. They are followed by The Cassini Division and the British Science Fiction Association Award-winning The Sky Road.

Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod returns with the thrilling conclusion to the Lightspeed trilogy, a gripping tale of first contact and dark conspiracies set among the stars.

Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod returns with book two in the Lightspeed trilogy, a gripping tale of first contact and dark conspiracies set among the stars.

'AN EXCEPTIONAL BLEND OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, HARD SCIENCE, AND FIRST CONTACT' Michael Mammay, author of the Planetside series'MACLEOD'S BEST BOOK TO DATE' SFXScience fiction legend Ken MacLeod begins a new space opera trilogy by imagining humankind on the precipice of discovery - the invention of faster-than-light travel unlocks a universe of new possibilities, and new dangers.When a brilliant scientist gets a letter from herself about faster-than-light travel, she doesn't know what to believe. The equations work, but her paper is discredited - and soon the criticism is more than scientific. Exiled by the establishment, she gets an offer to build her starship from an unlikely source. But in the heights of Venus and on a planet of another star, a secret is already being uncovered that will shake humanity to its foundations.Discover this ground-breaking new space opera from multi-award winning author Ken MacLeodPraise for Ken MacLeod:'If you like science fiction, you will love this. . . a rollicking good read' Scotsman 'MacLeod is up there with Banks and Hamilton as one of the British sci-fi authors you absolutely have to read' SFX'Prose as sleek and fast as the technology it describes. . . watch this man go global' Peter F. Hamilton on Star Fraction'Ken MacLeod has an enviable track record of extrapolating from current trends to produce mind-bending novels of ideas' GuardianAlso by Ken MacLeod:Lightspeed Beyond the Hallowed SkyFall RevolutionThe Star FractionThe Stone CanalThe Cassini DivisionThe Sky RoadEngines of LightCosmonaut KeepDark LightEngine CityCorporation Wars TrilogyDissidenceInsurgenceEmergenceNovelsThe Human FrontNewton's WakeLearning the WorldThe Execution ChannelThe Restoration GameIntrusionDescent

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.

Siobhan Ross has several reasons for taking a holiday job on the Isle of Skye - her keen interest in marine biology for one - but she's also determined to escape Glasgow and put distance between herself and a failed relationship with fellow student Kieran. The last thing Siobhan's looking for is romance, let alone with a Selkie, but… In Selkie Summer, Ken MacLeod delivers a rich contemporary fantasy that is steeped in Celtic lore, nuclear submarines and secrets, as Siobhan finds herself the focus of attention she never sought, unwittingly embroiled in political intrigue and the shifting landscape of international alliances. At its heart, Selkie Summer is a love story: as passionate and unconventional as you could wish for. At its heart, Selkie Summer is a love story: as passionate and unconventional as you could wish for.

With a foreword from Ken MacLeodContributions from: Pippa Goldschmidt Laura Lam Russell Jones Alastair Bruce Sean McMahon Elsa Bouet Beth Biller Tacye Phillipson Catherine Heymans Matjaz Vidmar Afterword from Colin R McInnes Scotland has big plans for its space industry in the next decade: opening Europe's first orbital spaceport, expanding further its satellite research and manufacturing industry, and developing a £4 billion space industry by 2030. Astronomy and Astrophysics have been important fields of study in Scottish universities since the eighteenth century, and world-leading research continues to be produced here today. And in contemporary Scottish literature, science-fiction writing is flourishing. Scotland in Space: Creative Visions and Critical Reflections on Scotland's Space Futures brings together these three strands to generate dialogues between literary authors, natural and social scientists and scholars working in the humanities, to envision some of Scotland's potential space futures. The book comprises three sections, in each of which an original piece of science fiction is accompanied by essays that respond to the ideas the story evokes. The essays, written by specialist scholars and practitioners working closely with the literary authors, identify, explore and comment upon the physical, social and cultural possibilities and potentials evoked in the science fiction. These cross-disciplinary discussions speculate about the ways in which research and innovation currently taking place in Scotland might change our sense of the possible futures of this country, this world and, perhaps, other worlds.

Shoreline of Infinity is the winner of the British Fantasy Society Award 2018 for best magazine/periodical.In this issueStories Thomas Broderick Rhiannon Grist Cat Hellisen Ken MacLeod Andrew Reichard Neil WilliamsonFlash Fiction Competition Winners Vicki Jarrett Emma Levin Eris YoungScience Fiction Poetry FJ Bergmann Harry Josephine Giles Richard StevensonRuth EJ Booth's BSFA award shortlisted column "Noise and Sparks" Pippa Goldschmidt on "The Future is already here"Mark Toner's Tales of the Beachcomber SF Caledonia: Chris Kelso on Neil Williamson Plus reviews

Editor Donna Scott has selected the very best short fiction by British authors published during 2017. Twenty-two stories, from established names and rising stars of genre fiction.Introduction - Donna ScottBlinders - Tyler KeevilIn the Night of the Comet - Adam RobertsThe Walls of Tithonium Chasma - Tim Major3.8 Missions - Katie GrayOver You - Jaine FennThe Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself - Matt DoveyUniquo - Aliya WhiteleyLooking for Laika - Laura MauroA Good Citizen - Anne CharnockMercury Teardrops - Jeff NoonThe Nightingales in Plàtres - Natalia TheodoridouThe Road to the Sea - Lavie TidharWhen I Close My Eyes - Chris BarnhamTargets - Eric BrownLondon Calling - Philip A. SuggarsThe Last Word - Ken MacLeodAfter the Atrocity - Ian CreaseyVoicemail - Karen McCreedyGreen Boughs Will Cover Thee - Sarah ByrneAirless - N.J. RamsdenProduct Recall - Robert BagnallThe Endling Market - E. J. SwiftAbout the Authors.

Three books in one: this paperback collects Ken MacLeod's Corporation Wars trilogy - man and machine compete at the far reaches of space in this robot's eye view of a robot revolt

From Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author Ken MacLeod comes Emergence, the final instalment in the Corporation Wars trilogy, an epic science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality and an AI revolution

'Prose sleek and fast as the technology it describes . . . watch this man go global' - Peter F. Hamilton'MacLeod's novels are fast, funny and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these: he is writing revolutionary SF. A nova has appeared in our sky' - Kim Stanley Robinson'MacLeod is up there with Banks and Hamilton as one of the British sci-fi authors you absolutely have to read' - SFXCarlos is dead. A soldier who died for his ideals a thousand years ago, he's been reincarnated and conscripted to fight an A.I. revolution in deep space. And he's not sure he's fighting for the right side. Seba is alive. By a fluke of nature, a contractual overlap and a loop in its subroutines, this lunar mining robot has gained sentience. Gathering with other 'freebots', Seba is taking a stand against the corporations that want it and its kind gone.As their stories converge against a backdrop of warring companies and interstellar drone combat, Carlos and Seba must either find a way to rise above the games their masters are playing, or die. And even dying will not be the end of it.One of SFX magazine's Most Anticipated Books for 2016.An epic vision of man and machine in the far reaches of space.Books by Ken MacLeod:Fall RevolutionThe Star FractionThe Stone CanalThe Cassini DivisionThe Sky RoadEngines of LightCosmonaut KeepDark LightEngine CityCorporation Wars TrilogyDissidenceInsurgenceEmergenceNovelsThe Human FrontNewton's WakeLearning the WorldThe Execution ChannelThe Restoration GameIntrusionDescent

'Descent is politically engaged, brimming with smart ideas and shot through with a mordant wit. The novel is dedicated to the memory of MacLeod's friend Iain M. Banks, and one feels that the future of Scottish SF is in good hands' - James Lovegrove, The Financial Times'Ken MacLeod is the modern day George Orwell' - SFXHOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE TRUTH?Ball lightning. Weather balloons. Secret military aircraft. Ryan knows all the justifications for UFO sightings. But when something falls out of the sky on the hills near his small Scottish town, he finds his cynicism can't identify or explain the phenomenon. And in a future where nothing is a secret, where everything is recorded on CCTV or reported online, why can he find no evidence of the UFO, nor anything to shed light on what occurred? Is it the political revolutionaries, is it the government or is it aliens themselves who are creating the cover-up? Or does the very idea of a cover-up hide the biggest secret of all?Ken MacLeod, author of 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated Intrusion, tells a science fiction story for the twenty-first century - this is what happens when conspiracy theorists meet Big Brother.Books by Ken MacLeod:Fall RevolutionThe Star FractionThe Stone CanalThe Cassini DivisionThe Sky RoadEngines of LightCosmonaut KeepDark LightEngine CityCorporation Wars TrilogyDissidenceInsurgenceEmergenceNovelsThe Human FrontNewton's WakeLearning the WorldThe Execution ChannelThe Restoration GameIntrusionDescent

Winner of a Prometheus and Sidewise Award, The Human Front follows the adventures of a young Scottish guerrilla drawn into low-intensity sectarian war in a high-intensity future, when the arrival of an alien intruder calls for new tactics and strange alliances. Acclaimed British sci-fi author Ken MacLeod's unique vision is developed even further in a new commentary written especially for this edition, and in his delightful personal account of a Hebridean youth's first encounter with the post-capitalist world. Also featured is an outspoken interview with MacLeod.