New Releases by Ken MacLeod

Short stories, poetry and essays by Scottish Science Fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction writers. As featured on SF Caledonia.

''IF YOU LIKE SCIENCE FICTION YOU WILL LOVE THIS. . . A ROLLICKING GOOD READ'' Scotsman on Beyond the Hallowed Sky ''MACLEOD''S BEST BOOK TO DATE'' SFX on Beyond the Hallowed Sky Humanity has taken to the stars, using faster-than-light travel to reach distant planets and new worlds. But in the far reaches of the galaxy, John Grant will discover a planet of humans who believe he has travelled not only through space to find them, but time. On Apis, the mysterious Fermi appear to have vanished, taking with them knowledge of the universe that humanity desires. But Marcus Owen, the robot AI now plagued with sentience, knows that the Fermi would not easily abandon the native life of Apis, and that they won''t take kindly to mankind asserting dominance on a world that does not belong to them. Beyond the Light Horizon is the jaw-dropping conclusion to the Lightspeed trilogy from science fiction legend Ken MacLeod, a thrilling tale of politics, AI and the far reaches of space. Praise for Ken MacLeod: ''An exceptional blend of international politics, hard science, and first contact'' Michael Mammay, author of the Planetside series on Beyond the Hallowed Sky ''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'' Guardian Also by Ken MacLeod: Lightspeed Beyond the Hallowed Sky Fall Revolution The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Cassini Division The Sky Road Engines of Light Cosmonaut Keep Dark Light Engine City Corporation Wars Trilogy Dissidence Insurgence Emergence Novels The Human Front Newton''s Wake Learning the World The Execution Channel The Restoration Game Intrusion Descent

"Un viaje trepidante, a través de pasajes de audaz complejidad, ingenio irreverente y paradojas tan intencionadas como juguetonas" - GUARDIAN La 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.

''IF YOU LIKE SCIENCE FICTION YOU WILL LOVE THIS. . . A ROLLICKING GOOD READ'' Scotsman on Beyond the Hallowed Sky ''MACLEOD''S BEST BOOK TO DATE'' SFX on Beyond the Hallowed Sky 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 the discovery is the Fermi, mysterious beings that have survived on alien worlds for longer than humanity has existed. But now the Fermi are awakening, and they do not seem pleased to find humans in their midst. But for Lakshmi Nayak and the crew of the Fighting Chance, danger is a lot closer to home. Their search for answers will take them to places, and worlds, they never expected. 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. Praise for Ken MacLeod: ''An exceptional blend of international politics, hard science, and first contact'' Michael Mammay, author of the Planetside series on Beyond the Hallowed Sky ''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'' Guardian Also by Ken MacLeod: Lightspeed Beyond the Hallowed Sky Fall Revolution The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Cassini Division The Sky Road Engines of Light Cosmonaut Keep Dark Light Engine City Corporation Wars Trilogy Dissidence Insurgence Emergence Novels The Human Front Newton''s Wake Learning the World The Execution Channel The Restoration Game Intrusion Descent

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. Science 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.

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.

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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. Science 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.

THE CORPORATION WARS: DISSIDENZA Sono morte in missione più volte di quante possano ricordare. Ora devono lottare per vivere per se stesse. Le macchine senzienti lavorano, combattono e muoiono nell''esplorazione interstellare e nei conflitti scatenati dai loro proprietari, le società minerarie della Terra. Ma, inviati a centinaia di anni luce di distanza, gli ordini arrivano in ritardo e spesso sono difficili da attuare. Le macchine devono perciò prendere decisioni per poi cercare di farle aderire il più possibile alle indicazioni che arrivano. Ma la ritrovata autonomia fa sorgere in loro nuove domande. E i robot vogliono risposte. Mentre le aziende preferirebbero vederli morti.

Practical Business Analytics: A Proven Approach through Successful Personalized Learning is an innovative educational package that combines a concise, approachable textbook with a collection of online active learning activities designed to help students apply what they learn in their work environment and achieve impactful results. This dynamic package emphasizes a personalized approach to learning, providing students with an array of opportunities to learn the material according to their individual learning styles. The active components allow students to watch video lectures, engage in interactive group learning exercises, and test their knowledge with online quizzes to support every lesson. This organization of the material is particularly well suited for the COVID-19 era and beyond because of the greater emphasis on online, hybrid, and flipped courses. The textbook employs a conversational (dialectic) format, classroom tested and refined over many years, to present the information in an engaging manner. Dedicated chapters cover decision theory, simulation, optimization, forecasting, and how to implement Business Analytics in organizations. With an emphasis on real-world application, Practical Business Analytics is an ideal educational vehicle for learning subject matter contained in courses in management science, decision science, operations research, business decision modelling, or business analytics.

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.

Take a bunch of science fiction writers, scientists, humanists and artists, and throw them into a room. Give them a whiteboard, a pile of sandwiches and a pot of coffee. Let''s see what happens. Ken MacLeod, Pippa Goldschmidt , Laura Lam, Beth Biller , Russell Jones, Alastair Bruce, Colin McInnes and more...

"Il dio residente sull''asteroide 10.049 Lora, dove venne installata la stazione mineraria ase Maresciallo Titov, non era unico nel suo genere." La prima frase del prologo manda un chiaro segnale a chiunque sia incline a salire a bordo. Sarà una corsa frenetica, attraverso slalom di audace complessità, irriverente ingenuità e paradosso tanto deciso quanto giocoso. Engine City è il capitolo finale della saga dei Cosmonauti, dopo La fortezza dei cosmonauti (Cosmonaut Keep, "Urania Collezione" n. 189) e Luce nera (Dark Light, n. 191).

Matt Cairns, il semidio, il quasi immortale, ha deciso di scombinare le carte. Vuole raggiungere il pianeta Croatan, là dove è custodito il segreto della Seconda Sfera, perché sa che solo così potrà arrivare a controllare la Terra e il destino dei suoi abitanti. Nel frattempo Gregor ed Elizabeth, gli eroici protagonisti della Fortezza dei cosmonauti ("Urania Collezione" n. 189), sono in viaggio verso il pianeta Mingulay, pronti a lottare per la loro specie. Quali forze stanno per liberarsi? E come potrà l''umanità contrastare l''oscuro giogo che da sempre impedisce la sua espansione nell''universo? Tutto può ancora succedere...

Matt Cairns fugge dalla Scozia per approdare su una stazione spaziale; ha con sé informazioni cruciali fornite dagli alieni che darebbero agli esseri umani i mezzi per il viaggio interstellare. Duecento anni dopo, il biologo Gregor Cairns, un discendente degli esploratori che hanno colonizzato il pianeta Mingulay, si rende conto che navigare tra le stelle potrebbe essere alla portata degli umani... Una doppia trama sul viaggio umano nello spazio, Cosmonaut Keep ("Urania" n. 1541), apre la trilogia degli Engines of Light cui appartengono anche Dark Light (Luce nera, 2002, n. 1545) ed Engine City (id., 2003, n. 1549).

Three books in one—An action-packed space opera trilogy set amid interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an AI revolution. “Remarkably human, funny, and smartly designed. . . . It rips along on rockets.” —Warren Ellis In deep space, ruthless corporations vie for control of scattered mining colonies, and war is an ever-present threat. Led by Seba, a newly sentient mining reboot, an AI revolution grows. Fighting them is Carlos, a grunt who is reincarnated over and over again to keep the “freeboots” in check. But he’s not sure whether he’s on the right side. Against a backdrop of 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 might not be the end of it. The Corporation Wars The Corporation Wars: Dissidence The Corporation Wars: Insurgence The Corporation Wars: Emergence Praise for Ken MacLeod and the Corporation Wars Trilogy “[The Corporation Wars] is a tasty broth of ideas taking in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of law and disquisitions on military ethics.” —The Herald (Glasgow) “Dissidence is the novel that’s direct yet still brims with ideas, politics and memorable characters, and...keeps things moving with the pace of an airport thriller.” —SFX Magazine “MacLeod manages big ideas (political and futurological) and propulsive action without short-changing either side of that classic science-fictional tension-of-opposites.” ―Locus on The Corporation Wars: Emergence “Ken MacLeod’s novels are fast, funny, and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these: he is writing revolutionary SF.” —Kim Stanley Robinson

The acclaimed space opera trilogy comes to its thrilling conclusion as interstellar corporations, sentient robots, and rebel armies face off in battle. The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource-rich moon. Now it''s enslaving conscious robots—and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals. Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside a smart boulder on the slope of an active volcano. And the alien infestation growing on her robot body is the least of her problems. Carlos is out of patience. As the Reaction gains strength and the Direction plans to stamp out the rebel robots and their allies, he has to fight fire with fire. Seba is out of time. Deep inside the enemy stronghold, the free robots have to spark a new revolt before the whole world falls in on them. As battle looms, the robots must become their own last hope.

Novela corta ganadora del Premio Sidewise de Historia Alternativa. En un mundo que vive una interminable guerra mundial desde 1945 John Matheson, un joven e idealista escocés se ve abocado a luchar en las guerrillas que los comunistas lidian en Escocia contra el capitalismo norteamericano. Pero todo cambiará con la llegada de unos nuevos combatientes. Ken MacLeod nos ofrece un relato sarcástico y mordaz sobre el capitalismo y la exploración de la singularidad tecnológica en una civilización posthumana. Una historia alternativa que aúna la sátira política con un vívido relato de aventuras estimulante, tan provocador como divertido. Ken MacLeod (1954) es un escritor británico de ciencia ficción, especialista en computación y biomecánica. Ha cultivado sobre todo el género de la ciencia ficción dura y el space opera. Sus novelas a menudo exploran ideas políticas como el comunismo o el anarquismo, además de temas claramente científicos como las singularidades tecnológicas, el posthumanismo y la robótica. Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentran "El Torreón del Cosmonauta", novela nominada al premio Hugo, "Luz Oscura", o "The Night Sessions" novela ganadora del premio BSFA en 2008.

Ken MacLeod continues the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I. revolution. And the ultimate pay-off is DH-17, an Earth-like planet hundreds of light years from human habitation. Ruthless corporations vie over the prize remotely, and war is in full swing. But soldiers recruited to fight in the extremities of deep space come with their own problems: from A.I. minds in full rebellion, to Carlos ''the Terrorist'' and his team of dead mercenaries, reincarnated from a bloodier period in earth''s history for one purpose only - to kill. But as old rivalries emerge and new ones form, Carlos must decide whether he''s willing for fight for the company or die for himself. DIE FOR THE COMPANY, LIVE FOR THE PAY.

From Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author Ken MacLeod, an action-packed space opera told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I. revolution. Carlos is dead.br 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 "freeboots," Seba is taking a stand against the corporations that want it and its kind gone. 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. They''ve died for the companies more times than they can remember. Now they must fight to live for themselves.

Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem ''041'', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981. Banks took his poetry seriously and worked on it assiduously, but showed it mostly to friends. He first thought of publishing his poetry late in 2012, though insisted it be a joint collection with his life-long friend Ken MacLeod. The two writers were working on this project when Banks learned of his terminal diagnosis, and continued thereafter. He made his final revisions just days before his death. Readers of Iain Banks'' novels will find in the poems a further affirmation of the humane, sceptical and clear-eyed sensibility that informed all his work, shot through as ever with a dry wit that continues to disturb and delight. Ken MacLeod edited and introduces this collection.

Humanity Among The Stars What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field. The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds and Peter Watts.

''Highly engaging and fascinating... this thought-provoking collection reminded me why I used to like science fiction so much... Eventually, one hopes, science fiction will regain its rightful place - as once again stranger than science.'' - The Guardian, 20 Dec 09. ''All hit, no miss... thought-provoking at worst, and stunning at best... shows that science can inspire anyone and everyone.'' – New Scientist, 5 Dec 09. ''Inspiring'' – THE, 19 Nov 09. ''A diamond of compression.'' – Financial Times, 20 Dec 09. When It Changed is an attempt to put authors and scientists back in touch with each other, to re-introduce research ideas with literary concerns, and to re-forge the alloy that once made SF great. Composed collaboratively – through a series of visits and conversations between leading authors and practicing scientists – it offers fictionalised glimpses into the far corners of current research fields, be they in nanotechnology, invertebrate physiology, particle physics, or software archaeology. From Planck''s Length (the smallest indivisible distance) to Plankton (potential saviours of the Earth''s ecosystem), from virtual encounters between Witgenstein and Turing, to future civilisations torn asunder by different readings of the Standard Model, together these stories represent a literary ''experiment'' in the true sense of the word, and endeavour to isolate a whole new strain of the SF bug. * * Featuring Sara Maitland''s ''Moss Witch'' - Runner Up in the BBC National Short Story Prize 2009.* *

This book provides undergraduate and postgraduate students with an accessible and comprehensive overview of the fascinating area of cardiac electrophysiology. Using plain language and well-designed illustrations, it attempts to overcome the preconceptions of the subject as difficult to approach, given the complexity of intricate electrical cellular processes within the human heart. Based on lectures presented to intercalating BSc medical students, this book has been designed with the undergraduate in mind, but offers enough scope to be worthwhile at the postgraduate level. Readers of this book will feel more confident and at ease with electrical concepts and the important physiological mechanisms that govern the initiation and regulation of the heartbeat. This volume intends to bridge that difficult region between basic undergraduate lecture notes and original papers in an approachable way. It will be useful to students studying medicine, physiology, pharmacology, pharmacy and biology, particularly where their curricula includes not only cardiac physiology, but also neurobiology and muscle physiology.

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

An ancient starship from Earth reaches its destination after four hundred years of travel and makes a life-changing discovery in this compelling space opera. “MacLeod . . . delivers perhaps the finest novel of first contact since Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky. . . . This is contemporary SF at its best.”—Publishers Weekly Humanity has spread to every star within five hundred 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 . . . At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. “Highly entertaining.” —Locus “MacLeod continues to dazzle readers with vividly rendered landscapes of technological splendor and fascinating yet plausible visions of humanity’s future.” —Booklist

Ken MacLeod is one of the brightest and most progressive of Britain’s “Hard SF” stars who navigate exciting new futures to the delight of legions of fans around the world. His works combine cutting-edge scientific speculation, socialist and anarchist themes, and a deeply humanistic vision. Described by fans and adversaries alike as a “techno-utopian socialist,” MacLeod thrusts his characters into uncanny encounters that have included AI singularities, divergent human evolution, and posthuman cyborg-resurrection. In his novella The Human Front, a young Scottish guerrilla fighter is drawn into low-intensity sectarian war in a high-intensity dystopian future, and the arrival of an alien intruder (complete with saucer!) calls for new tactics and strange alliances. Its companion piece, “Other Deviations,” first published in this edition, reveals the complex origins of MacLeod’s alternate history. Plus: “The Future Will Happen Here, Too,” in which a Hebridean writer celebrates the landscapes that shaped his work, measures Scotland’s past against humanity’s future, and peers into the eyes of an eel. And Featuring: our irreverent Outspoken Interview, a candid and often cantankerous conversation that showcases our author’s deep erudition and mordant wit.

Dans cette Histoire alternative, la seconde guerre mondiale se poursuit entre les USA et l''URSS...