The Corporation Wars: Emergence
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2017
Summary
‘[The Corporation Wars] is a tasty broth of ideas taking in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of law and disquisitions on military ethics.’ - The Herald
‘MacLeod manages big Ideas (political and futurological) and propulsive action without short-changing either side of that classic science-fictional tension-of-opposites.’ - LOCUS
The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resourc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780356505046 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0356505049 |
| Author: | Ken MacLeod |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Orbit |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 131mm x 29mm |
| Series: | The Corporation Wars |
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Ken MacLeod’s novels are fast, funny and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these: he is writing revolutionary SF
Brims with ideas, politics and memorable characters … MacLeod’s most entertaining novelRemarkably human, funny and smartly designed … it rips along on rocketsScience fiction’s freshest new writer … MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them downExcellentExcellent … fantastic fights and deep conspiracies and moral dilemmas … Although I lack the predictive capacities of an AI, I would have to adjust the parameters of my perception if this did not make it on to prize listsScotland’s leading science fiction writerAbout The Author
Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod was born on the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Gourock, Scotland. He has a postgraduate degree in biomechanics and worked for some years in IT. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of seventeen novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to The Corporation Wars (2018), and many articles and short stories. He has won three BSFA awards and three Prometheus Awards, and been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards.
He was a Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University, and Writer in Residence for the MA Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University.
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