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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 Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Skein, a chain of interstellar gates left behind by the posthumans. But on a world called Eurydice, a remote planet at the farthest rim of the galaxy, Lucinda stumbled upon a forgotten relic of the past that could threaten the Carlyles' way of life. For, in the last instants before the war, a desperate band of scientists had scanned billions of human personalities into digital storage, and sent them into space in the hope of one day resurrecting them to the flesh. Now, armed, dangerous, and very much alive, these revenants have triggered a fateful confrontation that could shatter the balance of power, and even change the nature of reality itself.

About the Author :
Ken MacLeod holds a degree in zoology and has worked in the fields of biomechanics and computer programming. His first two novels, "The Star Fraction" and "The Stone Canal," each won the Prometheus Award; "The Cassini Division" was a finalist for the Nebula Award; "The Sky Road" won the British Science Fiction Association Award, and it and "Cosmonaut Keep" were finalists for the Hugo Award. His novella "The Human Front" won the Sidewise Award. Ken MacLeod lives near Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and children.

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"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." "The kind of book that we wish would come to us more often in science fiction.Above everything, this book is fun." "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." "If you haven''t yet read MacLeod''s work, this is an excellent place to start." "Stylish, witty, and engaging!" "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." "If you haven't yet read MacLeod's work, this is an excellent place to start." "Far more fun than deep space drama has any right to be...Just read the book. Then read it again. It's even better the second time." -"SFX" on "Newton's Wake" "Stylish, witty, and engaging!" -"San Diego Union Tribune" on "Newton's Wake" "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...MacLeod returns to his story elements and concerns with a persistence that signals a stubbornly committed intelligence as well as a fertile and mischievous imagination, and every variation on his themes produces something worth re-reading." -"Locus" on "Newton's Wake" "If you haven't yet read MacLeod's work, this is an excellent place to start." -Scifi.com on "Newton's Wake" "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 "on "Newton's Wake" "The kind of book that we wish would come to us more often in science fiction...Above everything, this book is fun." -"Vector" on "Newton's Wake" "Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these. A nova has appeared in our sky." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of "Red Mars" "Science fiction's freshest new writer...MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigously 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" "This man's going to be a major writer." -Iain Banks "Prose sleek and fast and the technology it describes-watch this man go global." -Peter F. Hamilton "MacLeod at his strongest: clever, passionate, and committed." -"SFX" on "Dark Light" "Distinctive, politically challenging, both tantalizing and satisfying." -"Kirkus Reviews" on "Cosmonaut Keep" "Rarely does a book demand so much of the reader-and then deliver." -"Publishers Weekly" on "Cosmonaut Keep"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780765344229
  • Publisher: Tor Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Tor Books
  • Height: 172 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 163 gr
  • ISBN-10: 076534422X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Space Opera
  • Width: 105 mm


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