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The Execution Channel

06 Apr 07

About the Author

First British Edition Little,Brown (2007)

The Execution Channel
Fighting has spread across the Middle East and Central Asia to the borders of China. In the US, refugees from climate-change disasters subsist in FEMA camps. Images of official executions circulate. on the internet like at Qaeda videos. State agencies sponsor conspiracy theories as cover-ups. As the troops of the last superpower stand astride the last of the oil, China and Russia aren’t the only states considering their options: certain nations of Old Europe are quietly preparing for the worst.
James Travis is a middle-aged middle manager in a software company. He has a son in the army, a daughter in a peace-protest camp outside a USAF base and a compromising relationship with a foreign intelligence service. When his cover is blown hours before a nuclear explosion destroys the base, Travis, his son and his daughter are all in serious trouble. Roisin Travis knows that what exploded was no ordinary weapon - and not just because her brother had warned her that something strange and dangerous was on its way.
.As his daughter discovers that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, James Travis flees north through an England torn between the US and Europe, and divided by its own dark suspicions. As the spooks and disinformation specialists focus their efforts on his capture, Travis knows that all it will take is one mistake and his only memorial will be another grainy video on ...
THE EXECUTION CHANNEL
Praise for Ken Macleod:
‘The modern-day George Orwell’ SFX
‘Stunningly assured, inventive and intelligent’ Iain M. Banks
‘A hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful’ Guardian
‘Prose sleek and fast as the technology it describes’ Peter F. Hamilton
‘Magnificent ... a series you’d be wise to follow from the start’ Starburst
‘He is writing, revolutionary SF ... a novas has appeared in our sky’ Kim Stanley Robinson
`The wit and thrust are like a needle shower’ Mail On Sunday

First British Edition Orbit (2004)

Paperback - Orbit (2005)

Newton's Wake
The explosive new stand-alone epic of galactic conflict and human folly from a true master of far-future space opera.
The Hard Rapture took Earth’s best minds away. Now the rest are about to find out where they went ...
Centuries ago, space settlers and soldiers fled to the stars from the sentient Al war machines that engulfed Earth. They colonised Eurydice, a planet whose rocks contain traces of its own war machines - some of which still guard a vast, enigmatic artefact on a remote tundra.
When an expedition raids this strange artefact, the Eurydiceans discover that they weren’t the last survivors of humanity after all. Their leisured lifestyle is about to be disrupted by new arrivals for whom Eurydice is a prize worth fighting over.
And the long-dormant war machines are awakening ...
Newton’s Wake is a stunning stand-alone space opera, charting the struggle for human survival in a universe dominated by post-human intelligence.

Paperback - Orbit (2003)

First British Edition Orbit (2003)

Engine City
Engines of Light: Book Three
Engine City is the spectacular conclusion to the Engines of Light series.
For millennia the alien races of the’Second Sphere have lived in peaceful co-existence, building their civilisations under the gaze of the ever-watching gods.
But then Earth’s cosmonauts came.

First British Edition Orbit (2001)

Paperback - Orbit (2002)

Dark Light
Engines of Light Book Two
The Second Sphere is thousands of light years from Earth - if Earth still exists. For Matt Cairns and the cosmonauts of the Bright Star, this distant corner of the galaxy is their new home.
But the Second Sphere is also home to other civilisations, lifted from their worlds by a race of god-like aliens. On Croatan, two of these civilisations live a precarious co-existence, separated by eons of technological advance. The arrival of the Bright Star is an event that may trigger disaster, for this is the first human-crewed starship to arrive at the ancient colony.
And all the time, hidden among the stars, the gods are watching. They have always been watching.
‘Stunningly assured, inventive and intelligent. This man is going to be a major writer’ Iain M. Banks
`Prose sleek and fast as the technology it describes’ Peter F. Hamilton
`A classic saga ....heartily recommended’ SFX
‘MacLeod continues to add massive new levels of sophistication to the traditional space opera’ Starlog
‘He is writing revolutionary SF ... a nova has appeared in our sky’ Kim Stanley Robinson
`Magnificent… a series you’d be wise to follow from the start’ Starburst

Paperback - Orbit (2001)

First British Edition Orbit (2000)

Cosmonaut Keep
Engines of Light Book One
Near-future political intrigue spirals around space opera on a truly epic scale in Cosmonaut Keep, the sensational new novel from the most exciting science fiction writer to have emerged in recent years.
After the Ural-Caspian Oil War, the Russians quit stalling. Their troops reached the Atlantic, their cosmonauts reached the asteroids, and now they are claiming first contact. Matt Cairns knows they are being economical with the truth. But even he doesn’t know what’s really out there.
Thousands of light-years from Earth, human colonists have learned to live among other intelligent species. For Gregor and his fellow students of marine biology, the arrival of an interstellar merchant ship sets their research on a new course - where an alien past encounters a human future, at the speed of light.
Cosmonaut Keep is the first book in a new sequence that will become a landmark in science fiction.
‘If there is a last great British SF novel of the millennium this is it’ Guardian
‘The wit and thrust are like a needle shower… a joyous tale’ Mail on Sunday
‘Intelligent, witty and politically challenging’ New Scientist
'Magnificent… a series you'd be wise to follow from the start' Starburst

About The Author
Ken MacLeod graduated with a BSc in Zoology from Glasgow University in 1976. Following research in biomechanics at Brunel University, he worked in a variety of manual and clerical jobs whilst completing an MPhil thesis. He previously worked as a computer analyst/programmer in Edinburgh, but is now a full-time writer. He is the author of six novels, three of which, The Star Fraction, The Cassini Division and Cosmonaut Keep have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His fourth novel, The Sky Road, was winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for the best novel of 1999 and was also nominated for a Hugo Award. Ken MacLeod lives in West Lothian with his wife and children.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

The Execution Channel (Little,Brown, 2007)

Newton's Wake (Orbit, 2004) Orbit Pbk Jan 05

Engine City (Orbit, 2003) Orbit Pbk Sep 03

Dark Light (Orbit, 2001) Orbit Pbk Oct 02

Cosmonaut Keep (Orbit, 2000) Orbit Pbk Nov 01

The Human Front Gollancz Millenium Pbk Feb 03