Ken MacLeod is the author of twelve previous novels, five of which have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and two which have won the BSFA Award. Ken MacLeod is married with two grown-up children and lives in West Lothian.
"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."--Financial Times
"Dissidence is the novel that's direct yet still brims with ideas,
politics and memorable characters, and... keeps things moving with
the pace of an airport thriller.... MacLeod's most entertaining
novel to date."
--SFX Magazine on The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
"[The Corporation Wars] hits the main vein of conversation about
locks on artificial intelligence and living in simulations and
exoplanetary exploitation and drone warfare and wraps it all into a
remarkably human, funny, and smartly-designed yarn. It is, in fact,
a king-hell commercial entertainment... It rips along on
rockets."
--Warren Ellis on The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
"[The Corporation Wars] is a kind of action-packed Dirty Dozen or
Suicide Squad scenario . . . . MacLeod does many astonishing things
here. He creates viable, believable multiplex interactions among so
many different sets of characters, human and robot. His detailing
of the non-human way of thinking and speaking employed by the
freebots is fun and exemplary . . . . He shows a keen hand with
action sequences. And there is a generous amount of humor to leaven
the otherwise dire and deadly consequences of the multi-front war."
Locus on The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
"[The Corporation Wars] is a tasty broth of ideas taking in virtual
reality, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of law and
disquisitions on military ethics."--The Herald (Glasgow)
"Excellent... Having all three books in one binding is going to be
very convenient once you're totally hooked and unable to stop
turning pages."--B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
"Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny, and sophisticated. There can
never be enough books like these: he is writing revolutionary
SF."--Kim Stanley Robinson
"MacLeod manages big ideas (political and futurological) and
propulsive action without short-changing either side of that
classic science-fictional tension-of-opposites."--Locus on The
Corporation Wars: Emergence
"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
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