The Cassini Division: Book Three: The Fall Revolution Series

The Cassini Division: Book Three: The Fall Revolution Series

by KenMacLeod (Author)

Synopsis

Ellen May Ngwethu is a young woman with centuries of experience, no morality and the true knowledge. The world she knows is about to end. The Cassini Division, elite defence force of the Solar Union, sends her on a search for the man whose knowledge could save it. A search that takes her from space to the ruins of London, and back; from the margins of her socialist-anarchist world to its most dangerous edge. The Division's orbital forts around Jupiter are the front line in a centuries-long conflict with post-human AIs, whose intentions are unknown but whose powers once extended to shattering Ganymede and building a wormhole bridge to the far future. Their radio-borne viruses blanket the Solar System, keeping most of its resources from humanity's grasp. But are the post-humans less hostile than they seem?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 337
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 03 Jun 1999

ISBN 10: 1857237307
ISBN 13: 9781857237306
Book Overview: The acclaimed third novel from one of the genre's most exciting new talents.
Prizes: Shortlisted for British Science Fiction Association Award 1999 and Arthur C Clarke Award 1999.

Media Reviews
A rare but successful fusion of hard SF, space opera and serious political speculation -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Deliciously ironic, brilliantly imagined, MacLeod's witty and intelligent yarn packs a tremendous wallop. More, please! -- KIRKUS REVIEWS
A brilliant novel of ideas, frequently funny, always ingenious. Ken MacLeod brings dramatic life to some of the core issues of technology and humanity. -- VERNOR VINGE
Fascinating...The kind of high-spirited and thought-provoking romp through the solar system unseen since the heyday of John Varley. And it reads at lightning speed. -- ROBERT CHARLES WILSON
This man's going to be a major writer. * Iain M. Banks *
Prose sleek and fast as the technology it describes...Watch this man go global. * Peter F. Hamilton *
Great sci-fi. * FOCUS *
MacLeod still writes with charm and wit. * SFX *
Author Bio
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full-time.