9780765305022: Engine City

Sinossi

In a concluding novel of The Engines of Light series, the interstellar civilization of humans from the Nova Babylonia are warned to prepare themselves for an invasion by formidable aliens who have already attacked Mingulay.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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; and The Sky Road won the British Science Fiction Association Award and was a finalist for the Hugo Award, as were his next two novels, Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light. Ken MacLeod lives near Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and children.

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Engine City
The Concluding Volume of the Engines of Light

Science fiction s freshest new writer. --Salon

Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny, and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these. Kim Stanley Robinson

One of SF s hottest new authors. Locus

Praise for The Engines of Light

Ken MacLeod doesn t just create believable futures he breaks them down to explain what makes them tick. -Wired on Cosmonaut Keep

A portal to a deeply imagined future history that parlays X-Files paranoia about Area 51 and alien Greys into a vast interstellar community watched over by microcosmic gods. --Paul McAuley on Cosmonaut Keep

Marvelously inventive. --San Diego Union-Tribune on Dark Light

MacLeod at his strongest: clever, passionate, and committed. SFX on Dark Light

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9781841492032: Engine City: Engines of Light: Book Three

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1841492035 ISBN 13:  9781841492032
Casa editrice: Orbit, 2003
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