{"product_id":"the-stone-canal-a-fall-revolution-novel-fall-revolutions","title":"The Stone Canal: A Fall Revolution Novel (Fall Revolutions)","description":"Review      Another wonderfully knotty, inventive, intelligent yarn, if top-heavy with political minutiae that even dyed-in-the-wool Anglophiles will have a hard time deciphering. -- KIRKUS REVIEWSMacLeod's writing is smooth and sure, full of striking images and breathtaking extrapolations of current technology. It's a pleasure and a challenge to read a book where human potential and human foibles are dealt with as thoroughly as is scientific advancement. Fans of William Gibson and of Iain Banks, in particular, will enjoy this visionary novel. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLYThis man's going to be a major writer ― Iain M. BanksPlenty of clever surprises... a compelling read ― STARBURSTMacLeod's ideas are always interesting and his descriptive prose is elegant, deceptively simple and extremely vivid ― SFXMacLeod's offbeat imagination and witty narrative make this a rewarding read ― NEW SCIENTIST      Product Description      'There is more than a hint of a heroic ethic here, though the hero in question may be more like Milton's Satan than Captain Future. As much fun as [MacLeod's] books provide, it's that fierceness, that seriousness of purpose, that powers their engines and makes me want to read on.' - Locus'McLeod is writing revolutionary SF . . . A nova has appeared in our sky.' - Kim Stanley RobinsonLife on New Mars is tough for humans, but death's only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, and only the Abolitionists object.Until a young man walks into Ship City, a clone who remembers Jon Wilde's life as an anarchist with nuclear capability, who was accused of losing World War 3. He also remembers Dave Reid, the city's boss, who haunts Wilde's memory to the end ... a cold death in Kazakhstan. In Reid's cyborg concubine, Dee Model, both men see the image of their obsessions, and information that wants to be free. But she has ideas of her own ...THE STONE CANAL moves from the recent past into a distant future, where long lives and strange deaths await those who survive the wars and revolutions to come.The acclaimed second novel in the Fall Revolution sequence.Books by Ken MacLeod:Fall RevolutionThe Star FractionThe Stone CanalThe Cassini DivisionThe Sky RoadEngines of LightCosmonaut KeepDark LightEngine CityCorporation Wars TrilogyDissidenceInsurgenceEmergenceNovelsThe Human FrontNewton's WakeLearning the WorldThe Execution ChannelThe Restoration GameIntrusionDescent      Book Description      The acclaimed second novel in the Fall Revolution sequence.      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 Nationhttp:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.comHis twitter feed is @amendlocke","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40151332847701,"sku":"9781841490601N","price":4.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/c75b7ab4-df83-412d-8af9-853705de8262.jpg?v=1657009932","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-stone-canal-a-fall-revolution-novel-fall-revolutions","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}