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.
Speculative Fiction Novels (27)
Lightspeed Trilogy Book 3 (Lightspeed Trilogy #3 / 3) 2024 | science fiction > space opera | Release date 2024 |
Beyond the Reach of Earth (Lightspeed Trilogy #2 / 3) 2023 | science fiction > space opera |
Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy #1 / 3) 2021 | science fiction > space opera |
Selkie Summer 2020 | fantasy |
Emergence (The Corporation Wars #3 / 3) 2017 | science fiction > space opera |
Insurgence (The Corporation Wars #2 / 3) 2016 | science fiction > space opera |
Dissidence (The Corporation Wars #1 / 3) 2016 | science fiction > space opera |
Descent 2014 | science fiction |
Intrusion 2012 | science fiction |
The Restoration Game 2010 | science fiction |
Divisions: The Second half of the Fall Revolution (The Fall Revolution (omnibus editions)) 2009 | science fiction |
Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (The Fall Revolution (omnibus editions) #1 / 1) 2008 | science fiction |
The Night Sessions 2008 | science fiction |
The Execution Channel 2007 | science fiction |
Giant Lizards From Another Star 2006 | science fiction, short stories |
The Highway Men 2006 | science fiction |
Learning the World 2005 | science fiction > space opera |
Newton's Wake 2004 | science fiction > space opera |
Engine City (Engines of Light #3 / 3) 2002 | science fiction > space opera |
Dark Light (Engines of Light #2 / 3) 2001 | science fiction > space opera |
The Human Front 2001 | science fiction, alternate history |
Cosmonaut Keep (Engines of Light #1 / 3) 2000 | science fiction > space opera |
The Sky Road (The Fall Revolution #4 / 4) 1999 | science fiction |
Cydonia (The Web #8 / 12) 1998 | science fiction, young adult |
The Cassini Division (The Fall Revolution #3 / 4) 1997 | science fiction |
The Stone Canal (The Fall Revolution #2 / 4) 1996 | science fiction |
The Star Fraction (The Fall Revolution #1 / 4) 1995 | science fiction |