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 Cosmonaut Keep - Ken Macleod
Description: ISBN 1841490679 / Author: Ken Macleod / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Like a British--specifically, Scots--counterpart of Bruce Sterling, Ken ... more  Cosmonaut Keep - Ken Macleod ... MacLeod is an SF author who has thought hard about politics and delights in making unlikely alternatives plausible, grippingly readable and often downright funny.Newest Review: ... information which she has apparently received from a guard sympathetic to her cause, and is subsequently arrested, Matt must ... more ... defect to the USA. World politics is undergoing an extremely tumultuous phase, after the CPEU general secretary and EU leader Gennady Yefrimovich announces that first contact has been made with an extraterrestrial intelligence and public disorder ensues. The staff of the space station which has made contact with the alien intelligence have mutinied, citing the fact that Europe is using the situation to political gain, and soon Ma
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Format: paperback (A format), Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Cosmonaut Keep - Ken Macleod: The Great Work. (2246 words)
by Brett Bligh - written on 01.07.01 (Very useful, 36 readings)
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Ken Macleod is an author who combines left-wing politics, aspects of computer science and well-realised science fiction together into a successful narrative blend; since these three subjects all happen to be great interests of mine, I immediately warmed to the author. Thankfully, however, it is not only I who has done this, and with Macleod being runner-up for the Arthur C. Clarke Award twice and winner of the BSFA Award once in his first four adult novels alone, any fears I may have had regarding Macleod’s inherent obscurity have been thankfully unrealised. Macleod’s first four books (‘The Star Fraction’, ‘The Stone Canal’, ...
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