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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: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 216,093 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Storming!, 10 Aug 2008
By Diziet "I Like Toast" (Maidenhead, UK) - See all my reviews
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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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Sadly a bit of a mess, 5 Sep 2008
By P. G. Harris (Dudley, W Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
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I really enjoy Ken Macleod's work, but sadly this was a bit of a let down. I've given it three stars because he is as inventive as ever but the problem is that the narrative just doesn't hang together coherently. Where it falls down is that it feels like three different and incomplete books crammed together without being joined up. First there is a futuristic detective tale which feels like Spook Country by William Gibson or The Prefect by Alatair Reynolds. Then there is an interesting tale about a post-religious society and the place of artificial intelligence within it. Thirdly there is a rip roaring "revolt of the robots" space opera. However, if at the end of the novel you look back and piece together the narrative, it is shot full of holes.

I did enjoy the "Leki" gag though
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2 of 2 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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