@booklet {12016, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Excommunicates{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {91-103}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which people spreading disinformation on the internet are excommunicated in that they are not permitted to use the internet. They form a church that rapidly grows in membership until war breaks out.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {9780262546461}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {11737, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Cold Revolution Blues{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {New Worlds}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {241-267}, publisher = {PS Publishing}, address = {Hornsea, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where most phones can pass the Turing test and robots have replaced most jobs. The protagonist is a British journalist (generally assumed to be a spy) travelling to Amsterdam in the European Democracy, which is also called an Economic Democracy, where everyone is employed but jobs are \“spread out through the day, the week, the year . . . the life, even. Why should leisure be reserved for those too young or too old to make the most of it?\” (257), and whose citizens are biometrically chipped at birth. The Cold Revolution is \“a glacial confrontation, in which every tiny incremental shift in the balance of forces [between humans and AIs]--economic, political, even cultural, is freighted with global significance\” (249). \“The character Marcus Owen, and the Union, first appeared In the short story \‘Cold Revolution Blues\’ written in conjunction with a student project of Newcastle University\’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in 2016.\” A graphic novel interpretation of this story can be found in pages 76-83 of this university thesis. https://issuu.com/jamesanderson28/docs/james_anderson_portfolio_compressed/ He also appears in the Lightspeed Trilogy: Beyond the Hallowed Sky. London/New York: Orbit,2021, Beyond the Reach of Earth (London: Orbit, 2023), and a third volume to be published.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {978-1-786367-22-8 }, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)}, editor = {Nick Gevers and Peter Crowther (b. 1949)} } @booklet {11648, title = {"Epilogue [citation needed]{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {197-206}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Alconbury Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a small-town bookstore/library/cafe in a climate change impacted future, but the focus is on the government\’s program of censorship and resistance to it.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {978-1-914953-09-5}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)}, editor = {Dan O{\textquoteright}Hara and Tom Ward and Stephen Oram} } @booklet {8968, title = {The Corporation Wars: Dissidence}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The novel is set in the distant future where there is a war between humans and artificial intelligences and among corporations. First volume in a series.\ The Other volumes are The Corporation Wars: Insurgence. London: Orbit, 2016; and The Corporation Wars: Emergence. London: Orbit, 2017. The three volumes are collected in The Corporation Wars Trilogy. London: Orbit, 2018 with Dissidence (1-295), Insurgence (297-581) and Emergence (583-879).\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} } @booklet {8994, title = {Intrusion}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which a pill, taken when pregnant, eliminates many common genetic defects in the unborn child. The novel focuses on a woman who refuses to take the pill and the organized government attempts to force her to do so.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} } @booklet {6112, title = {The Night Sessions}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Conflict over religion in which Christians had used nuclear weapons on the U.S. Partially set in New Zealand, which is presented generally positively.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} } @booklet {5955, title = {The Execution Channel}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of the future produced by the \"war on terrorism\".

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} } @booklet {8993, title = {"Facing the New Atlantic. A Short Story"}, howpublished = {Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, pages = {56-60}, publisher = {Demos}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Scotland after the Gulf Stream failed. Part climate change dystopia; part high tech eutopia\ with extensive use of virtual reality. The future is unsettled, and everything is presented as in process.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)}, editor = {Gerry Hassan and Eddie Gibb and Lydia Howland} } @booklet {5524, title = {Newton{\textquoteright}s Wake: A Space Opera}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

While the novel is largely as described in its subtitle, it includes a flawed utopia in which all goods are available to all.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} } @booklet {5004, title = {The Sky Road}, year = {1999}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1999. Rpt. in\ The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road\ [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 495-710.

}, month = {1999}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia followed by a further attempt at space exploration. The final volume of his Fall Revolution series. See also 1995, 1996, and 1998 MacLeod.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4913, title = {The Cassini Division}, year = {1998}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.

}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The third volume of his Fall Revolution series, which also includes 1995, 1996, and 1999 MacLeod. This volume, in which every chapter is the title of a utopia, develops the description of two contrasting eutopias, anarcho-socialist and anarcho-capitalist in conflict with post-humans.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {1 85723 603 3 }, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4735, title = {The Stone Canal}, year = {1996}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2000. Rpt. in The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 251-493; and in his Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (New York: Orb, 2008), 331-640.

}, month = {1996}, publisher = {Legend}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Complex novel set on New Mars, a Mars-like planet being terraformed, where there is a struggle for power among various groups and sentient machines. Includes a functioning libertarian, but called anarchist, society but without much detail. Quite a bit on post-humans. The second volume of his Fall Revolution series, which also includes 1995, 1998, and 1999 MacLeod.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {0 09 955901 3 }, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4653, title = {The Star Fraction}, year = {1995}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2001 with an \“Introduction to the American Edition\” (11-12). U.S. ed. rpt. in his Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (New York: Orb, 2008), 7-330. Also rpt. without the \“Introduction to the American Edition\” in The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 1-250.\ 

}, month = {1995}, publisher = {Legend}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a fragmented Earth with constant surveillance conflict between pro- and anti-technology forces. Some eutopian elements. The first volume of his\ Fall Revolution\ series. See also 1996, 1998, and 1999 MacLeod.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)} }