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Ken MacLeod


Born
in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
August 02, 1954

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Science Fiction & Fantasy


Ken MacLeod is an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer.

His novels have won the Prometheus Award and the BSFA award, and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.

MacLeod graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics.

His 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.

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Happy New Year!

For me 2025 has been mostly a year of spending time with family and with getting on with stuff, and with letting some stuff pile up while working on my next novel, provisionally titled Empire Time. Progress has been slower than I’d hoped, but my agent and my editor have been very understanding. It’s now close to the end of the first draft, but I have a major plot thread to untangle Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.75 · 42,122 ratings · 3,318 reviews · 113 distinct works • Similar authors
Cosmonaut Keep (Engines of ...
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The Star Fraction (The Fall...
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Newton's Wake
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The Cassini Division (The F...
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Learning the World
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The Stone Canal (The Fall R...
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Dark Light (Engines of Ligh...
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“Change the problem by changing your mind.”
― Ken MacLeod, Intrusion
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“I knew from the beginning it was hopeless, but it's possible to love without hope.”
― Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep
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“If you're interested, you'll be there.”
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Polls

DECEMBER SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books move on to the run-off poll for December 2011 SF Book of the Month.

 
  24 votes, 28.9%

 
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  11 votes, 13.3%

 
  10 votes, 12.0%

 
  7 votes, 8.4%

 
  5 votes, 6.0%

 
  2 votes, 2.4%

 
  1 vote, 1.2%

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