Ken MacLeod’s left-libertarian “Fall Revolution” cycle, whose praises I’ve previously sung, is now back in print in two volumes: Fractions (comprising The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal) and Divisions (comprising The Cassini Division and The Sky Road).
If you like anarchism, Scottish pubs, intelligent computer programs, political subversion, high-tech immortality, libertarian in-jokes, government conspiracies, anti-government conspiracies, stuff blowing up, and endless debates among different flavours of political radicals – and of course you do – then check it out.
I just noticed that each of the two volumes takes its title from the first book in it, and the cover image from the second book in it.
If you haven’t read the Fall Revolution cycle, you’re missing out.
Apropos of nothing except that we’re discussing science fiction, I’m a couple of hundred pages into Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, Anathem (lucked out — got a signed copy on eBay for less than the cover price!), and loving it.
Thanks, Roderick!
Drool…
I’ll give these a read soon.
Ken MacLeod is asking his readers to come here and thank me for writing this post (which I sweated over for seconds and seconds)! So I hereby ask my readers to go over to his post and thank him for actually writing the books. Oh, and give him a macleod insightful comment thread.
Well, annoying and great.
I’ve been wanting to read this series, but held off until I got the whole series. And as I hate hardback, I was getting them in paperback. But for some reason, Orb never published the first in the series in paperback. And I didn’t want to start reading from the second one. So I have 3 of the 4 and have never read them.
Guess I’ll get rid of the ones I have and get these…
Yet further mystery as to why MBrown’s June 16 comment appears above my June 3 comment ….
I mean, of course I’d noticed the about the titles, but I hadn’t noticed about the images, and thus hadn’t noticed the (intentional?) symmetry of taking the titles from one and the images from the other.