New Releases by Ken Macleod

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...

As a world war rages in an uncertain future, young teen guerilla fighter John Matheson must shift his tactics and alliances when an alien species arrives. Includes two essays and an interview with the author.

Imagine a near future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child. Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four year old, is expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn child?.

Suite à des démêlés avec la loi, un individu au passé suspect accepte de redresser la situation dans le système stellaire de Wolf 359, victime d''une implosion civilisationnelle. Malgré l''état lamentable des habitants, ce personnage sans scrupules va trouver le moyen de tirer son épingle du jeu. Ken MacLeod est considéré comme un des nouveaux talents les plus novateurs à surgir dans la SF des années 1990. Il nous offre ici une farce à la fois frénétique et insouciante qui nous apprend qu''il faut bâtir avec les outils qu''on nous donne, parfois avec quelques petits rafistolages pour y arriver.

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 ...

Durante diez mil años Nueva Babilonia ha sido la mayor ciudad de la Segunda Esfera, una civilización interestelar de humanos y otros seres que han sido secretamente expulsados de la Tierra a lo largo de la historia. Ahora, los humanos de la lejanía llegan a la Esfera ofreciendo inmortalidad — además de para avisar a Nueva Babilonia que levante defensas ante una invasión extraterrestre que saben que está llegando, dirigida por la figura más alienígena que existe—. A medida que los alienígenas y humanos compiten y conspiran, la rueda de la historia alterará a los jugadores de formas nuevas y sorprendentes. La obra de MacLeod refleja el gusto por los escenarios clásicos que siempre le sedujeron: los de la Edad de oro de la cf; aunque con una característica poco común, la actualidad de su prosa y lo moderno de sus planteamientos.

There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know—she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: a game inspired by The Krassniad, an epic folk tale concocted by Lucy’s mother, Amanda, who studied there in the 1980s. Lucy knows Amanda is a spook. She knows her great-grandmother Eugenie also visited the country in the 1930s and met the man who originally collected Krassnian folklore, and who perished in Stalin’s terror. As Lucy digs up details about her birthplace to slot into the game, she finds the open secrets of her family’s past, the darker secrets of Krassnia’s past—and hints about the crucial role she is destined to play in The Restoration Game. Combining international intrigue with cutting-edge philosophical speculation, romance with adventure, and online gaming with real-life consequences, this book delivers as science fiction and as a sharp take on our present world from the viewpoint of a complex, engaging heroine who has to fight her way through a maze of political and family manipulation to take control of her own life. From the Trade Paperback edition.

There are ever so many ways to conduct a war. Only a few of them look like war. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

“A portal to a deeply imagined future history that parlays X-Files paranoia about Area 51 and alien Greys into a vast interstellar community.” —Paul McAuley, Interzone A Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel Ranging from a gritty near-future Earth to a distant alien world, Ken MacLeod’s 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. Matt Cairns is a twenty-first-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. “MacLeod handles the strands of the plot deftly, weaving one beautifully realized world with the other and highlighting the parallels between the two. Rarely does a book demand so much of the reader and then deliver.” —Publishers Weekly “One of the more original sf writers at work today.” —Booklist

This volume comprises The Cassini Division and The Sky Road. 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.

Consists of poems, stories, reports, essays, and articles.

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.

A la fin du XXIe siècle, l''humanité passa à deux doigts de l''extinction. L''éveil à la conscience des IA militaires plongea la Terre dans une guerre cataclysmique. Mais aussi rapidement qu''elles avaient vu le jour, ces entités disparurent, laissant derrière elles des îlots de survivants. Certains d''entre eux s''enfuirent alors dans les étoiles grâce à un réseau de portails reliant les mondes, issu de la technologie IA. Ils colonisèrent ainsi Eurydice, une planète dont la surface portait également les stigmates d''une guerre passée. Trois siècles plus tard, d''autres Terriens décident de se rendre à leur tour sur Eurydice. Malheureusement, leur arrivée va bouleverser la tranquillité de la colonie : d''anciennes machines de guerre sont sur le point de se réveiller... L''histoire va-t-elle se répéter ?

An ambitious, stand-alone epic of far-future SF, from the acclaimed author of The Stone Canal

A major new hard science fiction novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Cassini Division and Cosmonaut Keep

The Concluding Volume of the Engines of Light With Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light, both finalists for science fiction''s Hugo Award, Ken MacLeod launched a new interstellar epic with all the engaging characters and ingenious SF inventiveness of his earlier Fall Revolution novels. Now MacLeod delivers the culmination of his epic of a human future crammed with innumerable varieties of intelligent alien life, and in which humans find themselves involved in the politics of aliens as powerful and inscrutable as gods...and entangled in their wars. For ten thousand years, Nova Babylonia has been the greatest city of the Second Sphere, an interstellar civilization of human and other beings who have been secretly removed, throughout history, from Earth. Now humans from the far reaches of the Sphere have come to offer immortality—and to urge them to build defenses against the alien invasion they know is coming. As humans and aliens compete and conspire, the wheels of history will lathe all the players into shapes new and surprising. The alien invasion will reach New Babylon at last—led by the most alien figure of all. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

2303. Les 30 milliards d''humains résidant sur Terre - auxquels s''ajoutent les Exos, qui ont choisi de fuir dans l''espace - sont désormais gouvernés par l''Union solaire. Capitalisme et système monétaire ont été abolis dans cette société mondiale et interplanétaire sans classes, héritage d''un siècle d''obscurantisme initié par la victoire politique des Verts, qui ont mis à bas une civilisation dominée par l''Empire américano-onusien. Bras armé de l''Union solaire, la Division Cassini a pour fonction de défendre les humains des attaques répétées des Joviens, des Exos hostiles exilés sur Jupiter ayant détruit réseaux informatiques et systèmes de communication terriens à force d''inlassables bombardements de virus. Or une nouvelle menace se profile : on soupçonne les habitants de la Nouvelle Mars, planète en voie de terra formation située à des années lumière du Système solaire, d''ourdir aussi un complot contre les Terriens... Des ruines végétales de Londres aux confins de la galaxie, La Division Cassini renoue avec la grande aventure spatiale, au long de laquelle seront révélés les travers de l''Histoire, les terrifiants enjeux de pouvoir d''un monde à nul autre pareil et où, in fine, se posera la question de ce qui définit vraiment l''humanité...

As the humans of Earth finally achieve space travel, they discover that the universe is filled with an infinite variety of intelligent alien life and that they have become pawns in the deadly wars of the alien gods.

Science fiction-roman.

Science fiction-roman.

"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 post-humans as much as she does."--BOOK JACKET.