Cosmonaut Keep
Engines of Light: Book One
$67.77
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2003
Summary
After the Ural Caspian Oil War, nobody really trusted the EU government. So why should their extraordinary announcement of first contact with alien intelligence be believed? Matt Cairns thinks he can discover the truth. It is out there, but much, much further away than he could have imagined.
Thousands of light-years from Earth, a human colony is struggling for survival. The world on which they have settled, however, has already been inhabited by humans - and other intelligent species…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841490670 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1841490679 |
| Author: | Ken MacLeod |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Orbit |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 126mm x 179mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Engines of Light |
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This man is going to be a major writer
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
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 wCosmonaut 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 REVIEWThis man is going to be a major writer - IAIN M. BANKSAbout The Author
Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod graduated from Glasgow University in 1976 and worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full time.
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