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Cosmonaut Keep: Engines of Light: Book One: Bk.1 Paperback – 1 Nov 2001
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Like a British--specifically, Scots--counterpart of Bruce Sterling, Ken MacLeod is an SF author who has thought hard about politics and delights in making unlikely alternatives plausible, grippingly readable and often downright funny. (Cosmonaut Keep swaps between two timelines whose characters share the ultimate goal of interstellar travel. In an uncertain future on the far world of Mingulay, human colonists live in the title's ancient, alien-built Keep--coexisting with reptilian "saur)
Meanwhile alternate chapters present a mid-21st century Earth whose EU is (to America's horror) Russian-dominated with a big red star in the middle of its flag, rumours of alien contact aboun, and computer whizzkid Matt Cairns finds himself carrying a dat (Clearly the later storyline's Gregor Cairns is Matt's descendant. There are ingenious connections and surprises, with witty resonances between their wild careers, their travels and their bumpy love-lives. The foreground action-adventure points to a bigger)
Cosmonaut Keep opens MacLeod's new SF sequence Engines of Light. It is highly entertaining and intelligent, promising more good things to come. (David Langford, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW)
This man is going to be a major writer (IAIN M. BANKS)
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The first book in a major new space opera series by one of SF's most exciting new authors.
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Oh my, this was a boring book. Aside from the glacial pacing, any dramatic tension created from the plot is immediately dispelled by the smart-arse characters saying 'Yeah, that's...Read more
Sorry didn't like it. I'll tell you the good stuff first - it does some very smart things and the universe it's set in is really interesting.Read more
Whatever happened to Ken MacLeod? There was a time when I avidly read everything Ken MacLeod wrote. That was in the days of 'The Cassini Division, Star Fraction etc.Read more
This was the first Ken Macleod book I read and it inspired me to go on and read much of his other work.Read more
This is the first book in a series called 'Engines of Light' and I will be reading the next part pretty soon I hope.
So you know that I enjoyed it enough to read a sequel.Read more
So you know that I enjoyed it enough to read a sequel.Read more
After checking the reviews on this book, and seeing some of the almost rapturous praise heaped on it by other authorsm, (Iain Banks included) I was looking forward to something...Read more
... This is grand old space opera, but it does have ideas. And MacLeod distinguishes his science-fiction with political ideas, but he doesn't let them get in the way of the...Read more
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