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The Sky Road

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781405519434

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‘Exciting…Accessible to the average reader as well as the hardcore SF fan. This is a work sure to keep the reader on the edge of her seat.’ – Romantic Times Bookclub

‘For my money, Ken MacLeod is the current champion of the very smartest kind of New Space Opera… every variation on his themes produces something worth re-reading.’ – Locus

Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space ship yard, Clovis colha Gree, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship’s future from the dark archives of the past.

A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced the end of a different space age – her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenceless against the Sino-Soviet Union. As Myra appealed to the falling empires of the West for help, she found history turning on her own dubious past – and on her present decisions. Decisions which, centuries later, will determine the future of the new space age. Merrial’s people, the itinerant computer engineers, know this. And they know that the truth they seek lies within the secret files left by Myra Godwin.

Set hundreds of years in the future, THE SKY ROAD is the astonishing story of the dawn of a new space age, from the most exciting British SF author to have emerged in recent years.

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

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Reviews

Ken MacLeod brings dramatic life to some of the core issues of technology and humanity.
VERNOR VINGE
Ken MacLeod doesn't just create believable futures--he breaks them down to explain what makes them tick.
WIRED
For my money, Ken MacLeod is the current champion of the very smartest kind of New Space Opera: a relentlessly engaged thinker about nitty-gritty political-economic-social matters who also operates on the Romantic end of the genre by imagining worlds that offer vast (and even godlike) possibilities for humankind.
LOCUS
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