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In the twenty-fourth century, where the elite Cassini Division of the Solar Union defends humankind from the post-humans, superior beings descended from humans transformed by technology, Cassini leader Ellen May Ngewthu gathers a force to finally defeat the enemy. 30,000 first printing.
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With his third novel, Ken MacLeod elaborates on the future timeline from his first two works, The Star Fraction (1995) and The Stone Canal (1996). Most relevant is book two, which established a colony on the remote world of New Mars via a spatial wormhole created by superhumans--transcendent machine-hosted intelligences called the "fast-folk." The original fast-folk crashed from too much contemplation of their metaphorical navels, but their descendants on Jupiter still harass Earth with virus transmissions that have killed off computers and the Internet. Enter heroine Ellen May Ngwethu of the Cassini Division, an elite space-going force created to defend against the fast-folk. Her wild doings in the 24th century's anarcho-socialist utopia make for fun reading--everyone will covet her smart-matter clothing that can become a spacesuit, combat outfit, evening gown, or satellite dish at will. But the Division's political philosophy is brutally tough, with alarming plans to use a planet-wrecking doomsday weapon against "enemies," who may not be hostile at all. In a climax of slam-bang space battle, MacLeod crashes the ongoing ethical debate into a brick wall and leaves you gasping. Witty, skillful, provocative, but just a trifle too glibly resolved. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
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"The wit and thrust of the book are like a needle shower. It is a joyous tale." --John Clute
"This man's going to be a major writer." --Iain Banks
"Prose sleek and fast as the technology it describes . . . watch this man go global." --Peter F. Hamilton
"A brilliant novel of ideas, frequently funny, always ingenious. Ken MacLeod brings dramatic life to some of the core issues of technology and humanity." --Vernor Vinge
"Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny, and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these; he is writing revolutionary science fiction. A nova has appeared in our sky." --Kim Stanley Robinson
"Fascinating...The kind of high-spirited and thought-provoking romp through the solar system unseen since the heyday of John Varley. And it reads at lightning speed." --Robert Charles Wilson
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- PublisherTor Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0312870442
- ISBN 13 9780312870447
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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