The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

- Ken Macleod

Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their work…

- Ken Macleod

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

- Ken Macleod

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

- Ken Macleod

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recogni…

- Ken Macleod

I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a futu…

- Ken Macleod

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

- Ken Macleod

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself -…

- Ken Macleod

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

- Ken Macleod