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 The Night Sessions: A Novel - Ken MacLeod
Newest Review: ... park and outer space, with new Gnostics, cyber-veterans and Christian fundamentalists figuring prominently. Night Sessions ... more  ... is all that brilliant science-fiction should be: inventive, energetic, fluent, capable of inducing a disbelief suspension in the reader and, most of all, able to project the state of here and now into a vision of the future that speaks about the current topical - often political - subjects but also explores more general aspects of society, history and even that holy of holies of the Proper Mainstream Literature, the human condition. Oh, and on top of it all, it's tremendous fun to read.
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The Night Sessions: A Novel - Ken MacLeod: After The God Squads (682 words)
by - written on 05/12/08 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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The world post Faith Wars (or Oil Wars, as the fundamentalists are inclined to call them) is both very different and, at the same time - as it should be in relatively close-future s-f - uncannily similar to ours. It's a world of the Second Enlightenment, where, at least in Europe, religion has been truly separated from politics and became a genuinely private and societaly marginalised activity. Terrorism is history and the global warming has been halted by techno-fixes. The state is neither terribly benign nor totalitarian, though Scottish police's Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson has a somehow shameful memory of churchgoer-bashing God Squads in the ... Read the complete review
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