The Star Fraction: 1st in the 'Fall Revolution' series of books

MacLeod, Ken

ISBN 10: 1857238338 / ISBN 13: 9781857238334

Published by Little, Brown & Co / Orbit, 2000

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© 1995: 1st in the 'Fall Revolution' series of books.4th printing of 1995 edition:- Synopsis: In a newer world order where the peace process is deadlier than the wars. Moh Kohn's a security mercenary with a smart gun, reflexes to die for and memories he doesn't want to reach. Janis Taine's a scientist with a new line in memory drugs, anti-tech terrorists on her case and the STASIS cops on her trail. Jordan Brown's a teenage atheist with a guilty conscience, a wad of illicit cash and an urgent need to get a life. Between them they've started the countdown to the final confrontation, as the cryptic Star Fraction assembles its codes, the Army of the New Republic prepares its offensive and Space Defense lines up its laser weapons for the hour of the Watchmaker:- Review(s): "An impressive first novel. He's clever, witty, and his future has just the right grainy feel to it" - SFX / "Prose sleek and fast as the technology it describes. Watch this man go global" - Peter F Hamilton / "An immensely exciting SF adventure. 'The Star Fraction' is an auspicious debut" - Starburst / "Formidably intelligent and extraordinarily original" - New York Review Of Science Fiction:- (original cost £6.99).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Star Fraction: 1st in the 'Fall Revolution' series of books
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Co / Orbit
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857238338
• ISBN 13: 9781857238334
• Binding: Paperback: 7¾" x 5"
• Illustrator: Cover Art: Angus McKie
• Edition: 1995 Edition
• Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

'He is writing revolutionary science fiction. A nova has appeared in our sky.' - Kim Stanley Robinson

'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution, SF's Billy Bragg' - ASIMOV'S SF

In a newer world order where the peace process is deadlier than the wars ...

Moh Kohn is a security mercenary with a smart gun, reflexes to die for and memories he doesn't want to reach.

Jamis Taine is a scientist with a new line in memory drugs, anti-tech terrorists on her case and the STASIS cops on her trail.

Jordan Brown is a teenage atheist with a guilty conscience, a wad of illicit cash and an urgent need to get a life.

Between them they've started the countdown to the final confrontation, as the cryptic Star Fraction assembles its codes, the Army of the New Republic prepares its offensive and Space Defence lines up its laser weapons for the hour of the Watchmaker ...

The debut novel from a major force in SF, the first of his novels to be shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Books by Ken MacLeod:

Fall Revolution
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road

Engines of Light
Cosmonaut Keep
Dark Light
Engine City

Corporation Wars Trilogy
Dissidence
Insurgence
Emergence

Novels
The Human Front
Newton's Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent

About the Author

Ken MacLeod was born on the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Gourock, Scotland. He has a postgraduate degree in biomechanics and worked for some years in IT. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of seventeen novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to The Corporation Wars (2018), and many articles and short stories. He has won three BSFA awards and three Prometheus Awards, and been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards.

He was a Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University, and Writer in Residence for the MA Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University.

Ken MacLeod's blog is The Early Days of a Better Nation

http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com

His twitter feed is @amendlocke