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===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/>
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