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 future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. - Ken Macleod
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
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…
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least. - Ken Macleod
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? - Ken Macleod
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
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
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…
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 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…
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
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
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
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself -…
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. - Ken Macleod
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
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