Ken MacLeod Bücher

Wiedergänger bevölkern die erde, in Form von Klonen, Androiden und Künstlichen Intelligenzen aller Art, die von sich behaupten, Menschen zu sein, oder sich danach sehnen, menschliche Wesen zu werden. Dave Reed, der Begründer und Erbauer der Mars-Stadt, hat eine Welt für sich und seinesgleichen geschaffen - für lebendige Menschen. Und er trifft Vorkehrungen, dass die lebenden Toten sie ihm nicht streitig machen. Doch die Maschinen, in denen das Bewusstsein der Menschen gespeichert ist, sind inzwischen die mächtigsten Wesen des Universums ...

Die Astronomen trauen ihren Augen nicht, als sie im Jupitersystem Aktivitäten einer außerirdischen Spezies beobachten, die über ungeahnte technische Möglichkeiten verfügt: Erst wird in der Nähe des Riesenplaneten ein Wurmloch geortet, und dann bricht plötzlich der Mond Ganymed in unzählige Trümmer auseinander. Eine Elitetruppe der Solaren Union, die Cassini-Division, soll den rätselhaften Geschehnissen auf den Grund gehen. Kommandantin ellen May Ngwethu hofft mit Hilfe des genialen Physikers I. K. Malley die Bedrohung für die Solare Union abwenden zu können. Doch durch das Wurmloch droht noch eine weitere Gefahr ...

Nach dem Dritten Weltkrieg ist Europa zersplittert und von politischen Extremisten geprägt. Während die UN versuchen, den Status quo zu halten, leiden die Menschen unter Hunger und Seuchen. Der geniale Programmierer „Uhrmacher“ hat jedoch eine Künstliche Intelligenz entwickelt, die die Menschheit zu einer möglichen Rettung führen könnte.

The narrative continues with The Cassini Division and The Sky Road, concluding Ken MacLeod's acclaimed Fall Revolution series. These novels explore themes of political intrigue, technological advancements, and the complexities of human society in a richly imagined future. The intertwining stories feature diverse characters navigating a universe shaped by revolutionary ideas and the consequences of their actions, solidifying MacLeod's reputation in the science fiction genre.

The great sunliner 'But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky!' is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey. A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home. Expecting to find nothing more complex than bacteria and algae, the detection of electronic signals from one of the planets comes as a shock. In millennia of slow expansion, humanity has never encountered aliens, and yet these new signals cannot be ignored. They suspect a fast robot probe has overtaken them, and send probes of their own to investigate. On a world called Ground, whose inhabitants are struggling into the age of radio, petroleum and powered flight, a young astronomer searching for distant planets detects an anomaly that he presumes must be a comet. His friend, a brilliant foreign physicist, calculates the orbit, only to discover an anomaly of his own. The comet is slowing down ...

Editor Donna Scott has selected the very best short fiction by British authors published during 2017. Twenty-two stories, from established names and rising stars of genre fiction. Introduction - Donna Scott Blinders - Tyler Keevil In the Night of the Comet - Adam Roberts The Walls of Tithonium Chasma - Tim Major 3.8 Missions - Katie Gray Over You - Jaine Fenn The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself - Matt Dovey Uniquo - Aliya Whiteley Looking for Laika - Laura Mauro A Good Citizen - Anne Charnock Mercury Teardrops - Jeff Noon The Nightingales in PlÀtres - Natalia Theodoridou The Road to the Sea - Lavie Tidhar When I Close My Eyes - Chris Barnham Targets - Eric Brown London Calling - Philip A. Suggars The Last Word - Ken MacLeod After the Atrocity - Ian Creasey Voicemail - Karen McCreedy Green Boughs Will Cover Thee - Sarah Byrne Airless - N.J. Ramsden Product Recall - Robert Bagnall The Endling Market - E. J. Swift About the Authors.

From Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author Ken MacLeod comes Emergence, the final instalment in the Corporation Wars trilogy, an epic science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality and an AI revolution

Three books in one: this paperback collects Ken MacLeod's Corporation Wars trilogy - man and machine compete at the far reaches of space in this robot's eye view of a robot revolt

Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod returns with book two in the Lightspeed trilogy, a gripping tale of first contact and dark conspiracies set among the stars.

There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know - she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organisers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: its original inspiration came from The Krassniad - an epic tale, based on Krassnian folklore, concocted by Lucy's mother who studied there in the 1980s. As Lucy digs up details about her birthplace to slot into the game, she finds her interest in the open secrets of her family's past - and the darker secrets of Krassnia's - has not gone unnoticed. When a Russian - Georgian border war breaks out, Lucy has to move fast - and return to Krassnia herself, to the heart of the mountain that holds Krassnia's darkest and oldest secret. But nothing Lucy has discovered can possibly prepare her for the crucial role she is destined to play in The Restoration Game . . .