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The Night Sessions: A Novel (Hardcover)

by Ken MacLeod (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 324 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (7 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841496510
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841496511
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 187,856 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for Ken MacLeod: 'Mind-expanding science fiction at its best; it is no surprise that [Learning the World] has been shortlisted for all the main science fiction awards.' The Times, 'Stunningly assured, inventive and intelligent' Iain M. Banks, 'A classic saga ... heartily recommended' SFX, 'MacLeod continues to add massive new levels of sophistication to the traditional space opera' Starlog


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A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it's a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It's been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Terrorism is history ...After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels - after Armageddon and the Flood - came the Great Rejection. The first Enlightenment separated church from state. The Second Enlightenment has separated religion from politics. In this enlightened age there's no persecution, but the millions who still believe and worship are a marginal and mistrusted minority. Now someone is killing them. At first, suspicion falls on atheists more militant than the secular authorities. But when the target list expands to include the godless, it becomes evident that something very old has risen from the ashes. Old and very, very dangerous ...
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Kept me interested, 30 Aug 2008
By bob (uk) - See all my reviews
I am pleased that Ken McLeod is back on form, and Night Sessions kept me interested. The concept of a world after a pogrom against all religions will horrify some readers and appeal to others. (No more Thought for the Day!). The plot is an entanglement of religious conversion of AI, underground Covananters and high tech sabotage. As is usual, Ken McLeod educates the reader. All in all, I enjoyed this book, it was a fun read and the only reason I did not give it five stars was that I thought it tailed off a bit at the end.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Storming!, 10 Aug 2008
O.k. - let's try and set the scene a bit here. In Edinburgh, years after the end of the Faith/Oil Wars and the Second Enlightenment. Someone sets off a bomb that kills a priest. Enter Detective Inspector Ferguson.

So - is it sci-fi or is it a 'whodunit'? Well, it's both, of course. But the sci-fi ideas in this book just keep building up and up. The soldiers went to the wars with their battle mechs. Some of these battle mechs became self-aware. After the war, these K.I.s (Kinetic Intelligences) find roles in society, as police, as space workers and so on. Also, along with K.I.s', there are A.I.s and a police computer commonly referred to as Paranoia.

Add to all this the remnants of Dominionists, Dispensationalists, Covenantists and other religious extremists, plus a wild and high-tech club scene, space elevators, a totally mobile and integrated web, sharp dialogue, a very well written narrative that just keeps steaming along and you've got a wonderful book.

Ken Macleod's last book The Execution Channel was good, but this is better; this is back to the complexities, the extrapolations of current events, the chaotic realism of The Star Fraction and is all the better for it. Thank-you Mr Macleod!
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Aliens, 11 Aug 2008
By Tony P "Tony" (North East England) - See all my reviews
This book reminded me, as if I needed it, of how alien the religionist (sorry, can't think of a better word) mindset/world-view is.

Ken MacLeod is very good in this novel at showing us some of the inner workings of such people (those who have allowed themselves to be taken over by the "virus meme" that is religion). The main character (an ex-'God Squad' copper) has to deal, as tactfully as he can, with such people as he tries to figure out who/what/why.

My only complaint, as is common with me and Ken MacLeod novels, is the ending. I'm just not convinced that the Kiwi lay-preacher would have flipped in the way that he did. I would have expected him to cling to his world-view, no matter what evidence was put before him (Ur). And as for the last couple of pages...

Apart from that, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and recommend it to anyone, although god-botherering creationists may be offended by it.
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