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==Bibliography== ===Series=== * '''Fall Revolution series''' *# ''[[The Star Fraction]]'' (1995; US paperback {{ISBN|0-7653-0156-3}}) β [[Prometheus Award]] winner, 1996; Clarke Award nominee, 1996<ref name="worldswithoutend.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1996 |title=1996 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award|publisher=Worlds Without End |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> *# ''[[The Stone Canal]]'' (1996; US paperback {{ISBN|0-8125-6864-8}}) β Prometheus Award winner, 1998; BSFA nominee, 1996<ref name="worldswithoutend.com"/> *# ''[[The Cassini Division]]'' (1998; US paperback {{ISBN|0-312-87044-2}}) β BSFA nominee, 1998;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1998 |title=1998 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award|publisher=Worlds Without End |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> Clarke, and Nebula Awards nominee, 1999<ref name="worldswithoutend1999">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1999 |title=1999 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award|publisher=Worlds Without End |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> *# ''[[The Sky Road]]'' (1999; US paperback {{ISBN|0-8125-7759-0}}) BSFA Award winner, 1999;<ref name="worldswithoutend1999"/> Hugo Award nominee, 2001<ref name="worldswithoutend2001">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2001 |title=2001 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award|publisher=Worlds Without End |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> β represents an 'alternate future' to the second two books, as its events diverge sharply due to a choice made differently by one of the protagonists in the middle of ''The Stone Canal''<ref>"The Falling Rate of Profit, Red Hordes and Green Slime: What the Fall Revolution Books Are About" β ''[[Nova Express (fanzine)|Nova Express]]'', Volume 6, Spring/Summer 2001, pp 19β21</ref> ** This series is also available in two volumes: **# ''Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution'' (2009; US paperback {{ISBN|0-7653-2068-1}}) **# ''Divisions: The Second Half of the Fall Revolution'' (2009; US paperback {{ISBN|0-7653-2119-X}}) * '''Engines of Light Trilogy''' *# ''[[Cosmonaut Keep]]'' (2000; US paperback {{ISBN|0-7653-4073-9}}) β Clarke Award nominee, 2001;<ref name="worldswithoutend2001"/> Hugo Award nominee, 2002<ref name="worldswithoutend2002">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2002 |title=2002 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award|publisher=Worlds Without End |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> Begins the series with a [[First contact (science fiction)|first contact]] story in a speculative mid-21st century where a resurgently [[Socialism|socialist]] [[Soviet Union|USSR]] (incorporating the [[European Union]]) is once again in opposition with the [[Capitalism|capitalist]] United States, then diverges into a story told on the other side of the galaxy of Earth-descended colonists trying to establish trade and relations within an interstellar empire of several species who travel from world to world at the [[speed of light]]. *# ''[[Dark Light (MacLeod novel)|Dark Light]]'' (2001; US paperback {{ISBN|0-7653-4496-3}}) β Campbell Award nominee, 2002<ref name="worldswithoutend2002"/> *# ''[[Engine City (novel)|Engine City]]'' (2002; US paperback {{ISBN|0-7653-4421-1}}) * '''The Corporation Wars'''<ref>{{cite web|last1=MacLeod|first1=Ken|title=The Shape Of Things To Come|url=http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-shape-of-things-to-come-books.html|website=The Early Days of a Better Nation|access-date=28 April 2016}}</ref> *# ''[[Dissidence (novel)|Dissidence]]'' (2016) *# ''Insurgence'' (2016) *# ''Emergence'' (2017) * '''Lightspeed Trilogy'''<ref>{{cite web|last1=MacLeod|first1=Ken|title=Beyond the Hallowed Sky|url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/ken-macleod/beyond-the-hallowed-sky.htm|website=Fantastic Fiction|access-date=8 June 2020}}</ref> *# ''[[Beyond the Hallowed Sky]]'' (2021; Orbit {{ISBN|9780356514796}}) *# ''[[Beyond the Reach of Earth]]'' (2023; Orbit {{ISBN|9780356514819}}) *# ''[[Beyond the Light Horizon]]'' (2024; Orbit {{ISBN|9780356514826}}) ===Other work=== * ''[[Newton's Wake: A Space Opera]]'' (2004; US paperback edition {{ISBN|0-7653-4422-X}}) β BSFA nominee, 2004;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2004 |title=2004 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award | WWEnd |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> Campbell Award nominee, 2005<ref name="worldswithoutend2005">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2005 |title=2005 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award|publisher=Worlds Without End |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> * ''[[Learning the World]]: A Novel of First Contact'' (2005; UK hardback edition {{ISBN|1-84149-343-0}}) [[Prometheus Award]] winner 2006; Hugo, Locus SF, Campbell and Clarke Awards nominee, 2006;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2006 |title=2006 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award|publisher=Worlds Without End |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> BSFA nominee, 2005<ref name="worldswithoutend2005"/> * "[[The Highway Men (MacLeod novel)|The Highway Men]]" (2006; UK edition {{ISBN|1-905207-06-9}}) * ''[[The Execution Channel]]'' (2007; UK hardback edition {{ISBN|978-1841493480}}) β BSFA Award nominee, 2007;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2007 |title=2007 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award | WWEnd |publisher=Worldswithoutend.com |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> Campbell, and Clarke Awards nominee, 2008<ref name="worldswithoutend3">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2008 |title=2008 Award Winners & Nominees | Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award|publisher=Worlds Without End |access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> * ''[[The Night Sessions]]'' (2008; UK hardback edition {{ISBN|978-1841496511}}) β Winner Best Novel 2008 BSFA<ref name="worldswithoutend3"/> * ''[[The Restoration Game]]'' (2010). According to the author, "In ''The Restoration Game'' I revisited the fall of the Soviet Union, with a narrator who is at first a piece in a game played by others, and works her way up to becoming to some extent a player, but β as we see when we pull back at the end β is still part of a larger game."<ref name=LARB>{{cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/turbulent-years-ahead-interview-ken-macleod|title=Turbulent Years Ahead: An Interview with Ken MacLeod|work=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]|date=24 February 2014|first=Jerome|last=Winter}}</ref> * ''[[Intrusion (novel)|Intrusion]]'' (2012): "an Orwellian surveillance society installs sensors on pregnant women to prevent smoking or drinking; and these women also have to take a eugenic 'fix' to eliminate genetic anomalies.<ref name=LARB/> * ''[[Descent (2014 novel)|Descent]]'' (2014):<ref name="descent">{{cite web|url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/ken-macleod-descent-cover-art |title=Ken MacLeod - Descent |publisher=Upcoming4.me |access-date=18 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202102112/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/ken-macleod-descent-cover-art |archive-date= 2 February 2014 }}</ref> "My genre model for Descent was bloke-lit β that's basically first-person, self-serving, rueful confessional by a youngish man looking back on youthful stupidities... ... Descent is about flying saucers, hidden races, and [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s concept of [[passive revolution]], all set in a tale of Scottish middle class family life in and after the Great Depression of the 21st Century. Almost mainstream fiction, really."<ref name=LARB/> ===Short fiction=== * "[[The Web: Cydonia]]" (1998; UK paperback edition {{ISBN|1-85881-640-8}}; part of the young adult fiction series ''[[The Web (series)|The Web]]''. Collected in ''[[Giant Lizards from Another Star]]'') * "The Light Company" (1998) (quoting Ken MacLeod's blog: ''"The Light Company'' doesn't exist - the title was a provisional one, for purposes of a book contract, which I think got onto the publisher's list of forthcoming books and then took on a life of its own in the wild." - Ken, at Thursday, October 14, 2010 7:34:00 am)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Early Days of a Better Nation |url=http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2010/10/pyr-to-publish-restoration-game-next.html |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=kenmacleod.blogspot.com}}</ref> * "[[The Human Front]]" (2002; winner of Short-form [[Sidewise Award for Alternate History]] 2002; collected in ''Giant Lizards from Another Star'') * "The Highway Men" (2006) * "[[Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?]]" (''[[The New Space Opera]]'', 2007; nominated for [[Hugo Award for Best Short Story]]) * "Ms Found on a Hard Drive" ([[Glorifying Terrorism]], 2007) * "Earth Hour" (2011) * "'The Entire Immense Superstructure': An Installation" (''[[Reach for Infinity]]'', 2014)<ref name="Tor Infinity">{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/2014/06/12/book-review-anthology-reach-for-infinity-jonathan-strahan/ |title=Step into the Stars: ''Reach for Infinity'', ed. Jonathan Strahan |work=[[Tor.com]] |first=Niall |last=Alexander |date=12 June 2014 |access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref> ===Collections=== * ''Poems & Polemics'' (2001; Rune Press: Minneapolis, MN) Chapbook of non-fiction and poetry. * ''[[Giant Lizards From Another Star]]'' (2006; US trade hardcover {{ISBN|1-886778-62-0}}) Collected fiction and nonfiction. * ''[[A Jura for Julia]]'' (2024; UK hardcover {{ISBN|978-1-914953-83-5}}) Collected fiction.
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