Newton's Wake: Novel

Ken MacLeod

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The Hard Rapture took Earth's best minds away. Now the rest are about to find out where they went ... Centuries ago, space settlers and soldiers fled to the stars from the sentient AI war machines that engulfed Earth. They colonised Eurydice, a planet whose rocks contain traces of its own war machines - some of which still guard a vast, enigmatic artifact on a remote tundra.When an expedition raids this strange artifact, the Eurydiceans discover that they weren't the last survivors of humanity after all. Their leisured lifestyle is about to be disrupted by new arrivals for whom Eurydice is a prize worth fighting over. And the long-dormant war machines are awakening ...Newton's Wake is a stunning stand-alone space opera, charting the struggle for human survival in a universe dominated by post-human intelligence.

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Praise for Newton's Wake: Novel

  • Read the book. Then read it again. It's even better the second time - SFX on NEWTON'S WAKEStunningly assured, inventive and intelligent - Iain M Banks on Ken MacleodA hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful - Guardian

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Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod was born on the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Gourock, Scotland. He has a postgraduate degree in biomechanics and worked for some years in IT. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of seventeen novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to The Corporation Wars (2018), and many articles and short stories. He has won three BSFA awards and three Prometheus Awards, and been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards.

He was a Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University, and Writer in Residence for the MA Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University.

Ken MacLeod's blog is The Early Days of a Better Nation

http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com

His twitter feed is @amendlocke

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