Cosmonaut Keep: Engines of Light: Book One

Cosmonaut Keep: Engines of Light: Book One

by KenMacLeod (Author)

Synopsis

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 from Earth - for millennia. In that ancient division of labour, humans do have a place. But where is it? Twenty-first-century political intrigue becomes space opera on an epic scale in Ken MacLeod's first book in a dazzling new series. His most ambitious novel to date, it will take one of Britain's most exciting new science fiction authors to even greater heights of success and critical acclaim. More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Orbit Fiction
Published: 01 Nov 2001

ISBN 10: 1841490679
ISBN 13: 9781841490670
Book Overview: * Front cover of INTERZONE magazine * Review coverage in National and Specialist Press * Joint Author PR activity with Iain M Banks at the Edinburgh Festival * Submitted for SF Book of the Month promotions * Featured in the Orbit electronic newsletter and on the Orbit website as well as on Iain Banks' website
Prizes: Shortlisted for Arthur C Clarke Award 2001.

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full time.