Dark Light
Prometheus award nominee 2003.
Among the powerful intelligences that pervade the universe, there are profound differences of opinion about how to deal with surface life-forms such as human beings. Now, as humans have finally achieved space travel, they find themselves involved in the politics of the gods... and in their wars.
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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 part of a new generation of British science fiction writers, who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Iain M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds, Adam Roberts, Charles Stross and Liz Williams.
Engines of Light
Engines of Light consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
