Ken MacLeod

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1996
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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About the Author

Ken MacLeod is an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer.

His novels have won the Prometheus Award and the BSFA award, and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.

MacLeod graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics.

His novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism.

Technical themes encompass singularities, divergent human cultural evolution and post-human cyborg-resurrection.

Full Series List in Order

The Corporation Wars: Second Law Trilogy

1 - Dissidence (May-2016)
2 - Insurgence (Dec-2016)
3 - Emergence (Oct-2017)

The Engines of Light

1 - Cosmonaut Keep (May-2001)
2 - Dark Light (Jan-2002)
3 - Engine City (Nov-2002)

The Fall Revolution

1 - The Star Fraction (Aug-2001)
1 - Fractions (Nov-2008)
2 - The Stone Canal (1996)
2 - Divisions (Jun-2009)
3 - The Cassini Division (Aug-2000)
4 - The Sky Road (Aug-2000)

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Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Stone Canal

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    The Fall Revolution - 2

    Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object. Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remembers life on Earth as...

  • The Cassini Division

    The Fall Revolution - 3

    Ellen May Ngewthu is a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long stando...

  • The Sky Road

    The Fall Revolution - 4

    Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship= construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial...

  • Cosmonaut Keep

    The Engines of Light - 1

    Matt Cairns is a 21st-century outlaw programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top-secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency....

  • The Star Fraction

    The Fall Revolution - 1

    WINNER OF THE PROMETHEUS AWARDBritain in the 21st century is a Balkanized mess. Moh Kohn is a security mercenary unaware that he holds the key to information which could change the world. Janis Taine is a scientist who needs Mohs help. And a rogue co...

  • Dark Light

    The Engines of Light - 2

    A TALE OF HUMANS IN A UNIVERSE OF UBIQUITOUS ALIEN LIFE Intelligence, it turns out, is rare--on planetary surfaces. It thrives everywhere else, from the Oort-cloud fringes of star systems to the magma furnaces beneath planetary crusts. And among t...

  • Engine City

    The Engines of Light - 3

    WHO OWNS THE STARS? F or ten thousand years Nova Babylonia has been greatest city of the Second Sphere, an interstellar civilization of human and other beings who have been see'' removed, throughout history, from Earth. Now humans from the far ...

  • Newton's Wake

    ACROSS THE UNIVERSE In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture--a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings--a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered. Lucinda ...

  • Learning the World: Or, A Scientific Romance

    Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the ...



  • The Execution Channel

    It's after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq war. After 7/7. After the Iran war. After the nukes. After the flu. After the Straits. After Rosyth. In a world just down the road from our own, on-line bloggers vie with old-line political operative...

  • The Night Sessions

    A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it’s a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It’s been a long time since anyone saw anything like...

  • Fractions

    The Fall Revolution - 1

    The first half of The Fall Revolution, Ken MacLeod's landmark modern science fiction series, this volume comprises The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal.In a balkanized future of dizzying possibilities, mercenaries contend with guns as smart as they ...

  • Divisions

    The Fall Revolution - 2

    This volume comprises The Cassini Division and The Sky Road. The Cassini Division: In the 24th century, post humans, god-like descendents of humans who transformed themselves with high technology, have warped the very fabric of the solar system fo...

  • Earth Hour

    There are ever so many ways to conduct a war. Only a few of them look like war....

  • The Restoration Game

    There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know -- she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of a...

  • Intrusion

    Book Description The compelling new novel from the award-winning author of THE EXECUTION CHANNEL and THE NIGHT SESSIONS Product Description Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pi...

  • The Human Front

    Ken MacLeod is one of the brightest and most progressive of Britain’s “Hard SF” stars who navigate exciting new futures to the delight of legions of fans around the world. His works combine cutting-edge scientific speculation, socialist and ana...

  • Descent

    'Descent is politically engaged, brimming with smart ideas and shot through with a mordant wit. The novel is dedicated to the memory of MacLeod's friend Iain M. Banks, and one feels that the future of Scottish SF is in good hands' - James Lovegrove, ...

  • Jesus Christ, Reanimator



  • Dissidence

    The Corporation Wars: Second Law Trilogy - 1

    They've died for the companies more times than they can remember. Now they must fight to live for themselves. Sentient machines work, fight and die in interstellar exploration and conflict for the benefit of their owners - the competing mining cor...

  • Insurgence

    The Corporation Wars: Second Law Trilogy - 2

    Ken MacLeod continues the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I. revolution. And the ultimate pay-off is DH-17, an Earth-like pla...

  • Emergence

    The Corporation Wars: Second Law Trilogy - 3

    Ken MacLeod concludes the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I revolution. The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seize...

  • Scotland in Space

    With a foreword from Ken MacLeod

    Contributions from:

    • Pippa Goldschmidt
    • Laura Lam
    • Russell Jones
    • Alastair Bruce
    • Sean McMahon
    • Elsa Bouet
    • Beth Biller
    • Tacye Phillipson
  • Selkie Summer

    Siobhan Ross has several reasons for taking a holiday job on the Isle of Skye – her keen interest in marine biology for one – but she's also determined to escape Glasgow and put distance between herself and a failed relationship with fell...

  • Best of British Science Fiction 2019

    Twenty-two stories, selected by editor Donna Scott from disparate places, that represent some of the best science fiction published anywhere in 2019: stories of heroism, stories of loss, stories of wonder. In this volume you will encounter tales in w...

  • Beyond the Reach of Earth

    THE FERMI ARE AWAKE…The invention of faster-than-light technology has brought great opportunity, but also great danger.The Black Horizon conspiracy is broken up, but it still has deadly assets beyond the reach of Earth. As the great powers jostle f...

  • Beyond the Hallowed Sky

    Mathematician Lakshmi Nayak receives a letter from her future self about faster-than-light travel. The equations work, and the letter itself seems to prove the possibility will someday be realized. But her paper on the topic is fiercely criticized, a...

  • Beyond the Light Horizon

    MacLeod's final book in the Lightspeed trilogy is nothing short of celestial. . . The Fermi have departed from the rocky worlds, but they still haunt the gas giants. Their long-term intentions remain unknown. Hurled into the past by a time-slip, John...

  • A Jura For Julia

    The first short story collection in 18 years from Ken MacLeod, featuring his finest work from that period, as selected by the author, plus a brand new story written especially for this collection.The collection is further enhanced by stunning cover a...



  • Cydonia

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ken MacLeod has published 30 books.

Ken MacLeod does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Jura For Julia, was published in August 2024.

The first book by Ken MacLeod, The Stone Canal, was published in January 1996.

Yes. Ken MacLeod has 3 series.
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