The Fall Revolution · #3

The Cassini Division

Ken MacLeod

Science Fiction
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British Science Fiction Association Award nominee 1998, Nebula Award nominee 1999, Prometheus Award nominee 2000.

”A brilliant novel of ideas.” – Vernor Vinge   

”Science fiction's freshest new writer” (Salon.com), a resident of Edinburgh, Scotland, is introduced to U.S. readers in his first novel published stateside. The tale features a woman soldier who is leading the elite defense forces of the utopian Solar Union against a threat from post-humans who have used high technology to transform themselves into godlike beings.

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Published
1997
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Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod (born 1954), an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer, lives in South Queensferry near Edinburgh. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. MacLeod's novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism. Technical themes encompass singularities, divergent human cultural evolution and post-human cyborg-resurrection. MacLeod's general outlook can be best described as techno-utopian socialist. He is…