- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Orbit (1 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841490695
- ISBN-13: 978-1841490694
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 979,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A modern-day George Orwell' SFX 'A hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful' GUARDIAN
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'A hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful'
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Masterful handling of the "tricky" second novel in a series.,
By Peter A. Dawson (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Light: Bk. 2 (Engines of Light) (Hardcover)
The tricky second novel in any series is fraught with pitfals all of which MacLeod avoids skillfully. MacLeod's skill in characterization and plot development are displyed to good effect in Dark Light. If I could offer any constructive criticism it would be that MacLeod spins off ideas that would merit further deveolpment with such frequency that I found myself wishing for a book twice or thrice the size to fully explore all of them. I suppose that I am complaining about taught prose that leaves you wanting more which means that Ken, Mic and Tim have done their jobs rather well, not much of a complaint if truth be told.The alternating timelines of Cosmanaut Keep have been dispensed with in favour of a linnear narrative which may make for easier reading for some. Criticism has been leveled at MacLeod in the past for the alternate political views expressed in his novels, while they are still present in Dark Light they are much less overt and are presented alongside many of the philosophical arguments behind those political systems, which is not nearly as dry as it sounds (what, you expected New Labour, Blair, Brown et al to get you to the stars?). I should also make it clear that the naming of a heretical anthropologist in the novel had nothing to do with me but the honour was bought in an auction at a SF convention by Guy Dawson and not myself (More's the pity!). I find it increasingly perplexing that Macleod continues to be nominated for the Clark prize and continually fails to win, especially as he seems to have developed a corollary to Clarks law that states if any sufficently advanced technology is indistiguisable from magic then the holder of the technology is probably ripe for worship from any lesser civilization. As an author MacLeod has always been and continues to be very good value in all respects and Dark Light is no exception...
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Fascinating speculation that does require some patience,
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This review is from: Dark Light (Engines of Light) (Paperback)
Those who have read COSMONAUT KEEP should find this a worthwhile continuation. I liked it better than the first book, myself, because of the increased political and theological speculation. Especially fascinating is MacLeod's concept of the Gods and their relationship with humanity. Not highly recommended to extreme conservative religionists. I did find myself mired down a couple of times in the political dissertations. However, MacLeod basically tells a good story. How good a story it is depends, I suppose, on the concluding book in the series. But these first two are interesting enough and I'm getting to better like the characters, and so I will be reading the final installment.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The trilogy develops well,
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This review is from: Dark Light (Engines of Light) (Paperback)
Less sf this time and more of a politicial / social thriller, this is the second volume in the trilogy begun by Cosmonaut Keep. The cosmonauts have made their journey and arrived in a stable society, a society based on tight control of space travel and that certainly doesn't welcome a change to the status quo.It's typically Ken MacLeod - particularly the way that a grass-roots trade union movement can solve all intergalactic-strife. This time he takes an interesting slant on gender politics too. It works well as a stand-alone novel, although I think Cosmonaut Keep preserves its novelty better if read first. I'm certainly looking forward to Engine City.
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