'Science 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 down.' - SALON

'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution, SF's Billy Bragg.' - Asimov's SF


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?

The acclaimed third novel from one of the genre's most exciting new talents.

Books by Ken MacLeod:

Fall Revolution
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road

Engines of Light
Cosmonaut Keep
Dark Light
Engine City

Corporation Wars Trilogy
Dissidence
Insurgence
Emergence

Novels
The Human Front
Newton's Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent

The acclaimed third novel from one of the genre's most exciting new talents.

About the Author
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full-time.

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 *


Awards
Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award 1999 and Arthur C Clarke Award 1999.



Book Information
ISBN 9781857237306
Author Ken MacLeod
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Orbit
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 167g
Dimensions(mm) 176mm * 107mm * 20mm