Editing Ken MacLeod (section)

== Biography ==
MacLeod was born in [[Stornoway]], Scotland in 1954.<ref name="sfsite">{{cite web |last=Raven |first=Paul |date=February 2007 |title=The New British Catastrophe |url=http://www.sfsite.com/02b/km242.htm |access-date=20 March 2012 |publisher=The SF Site}}</ref> He graduated from [[University of Glasgow]] with a degree in [[zoology]] in 1976 and worked as a [[Programmer|computer programmer]] and wrote a masters thesis on [[biomechanics]].<ref name="KenBiog">{{cite web |title=Ken MacLeod's official page at Orbit Books |url=http://www.orbitbooks.co.uk/orbit/macleod-ken.asp?TAG=&CID=orbit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217181001/http://www.orbitbooks.co.uk/orbit/macleod-ken.asp |archive-date=17 December 2005 |access-date=20 March 2012 |publisher=Orbitbooks.co.uk}}</ref> He was a [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] activist in the 1970s and early 1980s<ref name="Walker">{{cite magazine |last=Walker |first=Jesse |author-link=Jesse Walker |date=November 2000 |title=Anarchies, States, and Utopias |url=http://reason.com/archives/2000/11/01/anarchies-states-and-utopias |access-date=20 March 2012 |magazine=Reason Magazine}}</ref> MacLeod is opposed to [[Scottish independence]].<ref>{{cite web |last=MacLeod |first=Ken |date=19 December 2012 |title=Never knowingly understated |url=http://kenmacleod.blogspot.ie/2012/12/never-knowingly-understated.html |access-date=27 February 2014 |website=The Early Days of A Better Nation |quote=Of the 27, I counted 15 who would give a definite Yes to independence. Only two of the others – [[Jenni Calder]] and myself – give a definite No.}}</ref>