shopping cart
Powell's 2010 Puddly Awards
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Original Essays | December 24, 2009

Richard Wiseman: IMG The New Science of Rapid Change



Want to improve your life? Perhaps lose weight, find your perfect partner, or obtain your dream job? Try this simple exercise... Close your eyes and... Continue »
  1. $16.80 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$7.95
List price: $14.95
Used Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Beaverton Science Fiction and Fantasy- A to Z

This title in other formats:

The Star Fraction

by Ken Macleod

The Star Fraction Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Moh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory-enhancing drugs, fleeing the US/UN's technology cops. Jordan Brown is a teenager in the Christian enclave of Beulah City, dealing in theologically-correct software for the world's fundamentalists-and wants out.In a balkanized twenty-first century, where the "peace process" is deadlier than war, the US/UN's spy satellites have everyone in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans, and the lives of Moh, Janis, and Jordan are part of the program. A specter is haunting the fight for space and freedom, the specter of the betrayed revolution that happened before. . . .With The Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod burst onto the SF scene and began the Fall Revolution sequence that continued with The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road.

Synopsis:

Britain in the 21 st century is a Balkanized mess with an absentee-landlord Hanoverian royal family, neighborhoods that pursue their own independent foreign policies, and US/UN technology cops with everyone in their sights. Moh Kohn is a security mercenary unaware that he holds the key to information which could change the world. Janis Taine is a scientist who needs Moh's help hiding from the US/UN. Jordan Brown is a teenaged refugee from an enclave of religious fundamentalists. And a rogue computer program is guiding events to a breathtaking conclusion, with strange and wonderful implications for the human future.

About the Author

Ken MacLeod holds a degree in zoology and has worked in the fields of biomechanics and computer programming. His first two novels, The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal, each won the Prometheus Award; The Cassini Division was a finalist for the Nebula Award; and The Sky Road won the British Science Fiction Association Award and is a finalist for the Hugo Award. Dark Light continues the world of his fifth novel, Cosmonaut Keep Ken MacLeod lives near Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and children.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780765301567
Author:
MacLeod, Ken
Publisher:
Tor Books
Author:
MacLeod, Ken
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science / High Tech
Subject:
Twenty-first century
Subject:
Great britain
Edition Description:
First
Publication Date:
20020705
Binding:
TP
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.25x5.54x.83 in. .64 lbs.

Other books you might like

  1. $4.50 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    The Stone Canal

    Ken Macleod
  2. $4.50 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    The Sky Road

    Ken Macleod
  3. $3.50 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    Cosmonaut Keep

    Ken Macleod
  4. $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson
  5. $4.50 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    Thomas the Rhymer

    Ellen Kushner
  6. $4.50 Used Mass Market add to wish list

    Crache

    Mark Budz

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.