Ken MacLeod

At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow , August 2005

Ken MacLeod (born August 2, 1954 in Stornoway , Scotland ), actually Kenneth Macrae MacLeod , is a Scottish science fiction author.

Life

Ken MacLeod was born on August 2, 1954 in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland . He studied zoology at the University of Glasgow . Ken MacLeod is the author of various science fiction novels. Today he lives near Edinburgh .

Ken MacLeod is also politically active, which is sometimes discreetly hinted at in his novels when, for example, book titles are incidentally mentioned (“Books on Economics”) written by Karl Marx or the British Trotskyist Tony Cliff . Although the trilogy “Engines of Light” appeared well after 1989, the Soviet Union appears there . Jokes such as that the interstellar currency is the “ thaler ” or that suddenly an “ancient archaeologist” Erich von Däniken is mentioned are somewhat less political . Ken MacLeod's attempt to write an interstellar novel in the Engines of Light trilogy is daring, the plot of which stretches across the galaxy without exceeding the speed of light .

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Case revolution

• Vol. 1: The Star Fraction , 1995

Volume 1: The Star Program , Heyne, 2001, ISBN 3-453-18788-1

• Vol. 2: The Stone Canal , 1996

Volume 2: Die Mars-Stadt , Heyne, 2002, ISBN 3-453-19678-3

• Vol. 3: The Cassini Division , 1998

Volume 3: The Cassini Division , Heyne, 2003, ISBN 3-453-86326-7

• Vol. 4: The Sky Road , 1999

The Web

MacLeod contributed volume 8 to the twelve-part youth book series The Web .

Engines of Light

• Vol. 1: Cosmonaut Keep , 2000
• Vol. 2: Dark Light , 2001
• Vol. 3: Engine City , 2002

Single novels

• Newton's Wake: A Space Opera , 2004
• Learning the World: A Novel of First Contact , 2005
• The Execution Channel , 2007
• The Night Sessions , 2008
• The Restoration Game , 2010
• Intrusion , 2012

Short story collection

• Giant Lizards From Another Star , 2006

Other short stories

• The Human Front , 2002
• Engine City (Excerpt) , 2003
• A Case of Consilience , 2005
• MS Found on a Hard Drive , 2006
• The Highway Men , 2006
• Lighting Out , 2007
• Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? , 2007

Prizes and awards

• 1996 Prometheus Award for the novel The Star Fraction
• 1998 Prometheus Award for the novel The Stone Canal
• 1999 BSFA Award for the novel The Sky Road
• 2001 Sidewise Award for the story The Human Front
• 2006 Prometheus Award for the novel Learning the World
• 2007 BSFA Award for the story Lighting Out
• 2008 BSFA Award for the novel The Night Sessions

literature

• Carsten Polzin: "Towards space, comrades!" Politics and Science Fiction with Ken MacLeod . In: The Science Fiction Year 2004 , ed. by Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke , Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-87896-5 , pp. 138-147.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ken MacLeod in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ken MacLeod in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Ken MacLeod at Open Library
• The Early Days of a Better Nation - Blog (English)
• Libertarianism, the Loony Left and the Secrets of the Illuminati (PDF) Article in English (61 kB)