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The Cassini Division
by Ken Macleod

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ISBN13: 9780812568585
ISBN10: 0812568583
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Ellen May Ngewthu is a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long standoff with the unknowable post-humans godlike beings descended from the men and women who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago.

The post-humans' capacities are unknown . . . but we know they disintegrated Ganymede, we know they punched a wormhole into Jovian space, and we know that the very surface of the solar system's largest planet has been altered by them. Worse, we know that they have been bombarding the inner solar system with powerful data viruses for generations.

Now Ellen has a plan to rid humanity of this threat once and for all. But she needs to convince others to mistrust the post-humans as much as she does. In the process, much will be revealed--about history, about power, and about what it is to be human.

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Ellen May Ngewthu is a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long standoff with the unknowable post-humans godlike beings descended from the men and women who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago.

The post-humans' capacities are unknown . . . but we know they disintegrated Ganymede, we know they punched a wormhole into Jovian space, and we know that the very surface of the solar system's largest planet has been altered by them. Worse, we know that they have been bombarding the inner solar system with powerful data viruses for generations.

Now Ellen has a plan to rid humanity of this threat once and for all. But she needs to convince others to mistrust the post-humans as much as she does. In the process, much will be revealed--about history, about power, and about what it is to be human.

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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.

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stp, December 8, 2007 (view all comments by stp)
Before I'd finished the first chapter, this book had blown my mind with its plausible yet unsettling future. This extrapolation of life after the Singularity for those left behind was by turns amusing, grim, and wondrous. Especially enjoyable were the references to other works and the savaging of contemporary social norms, seen from a perspective hundreds of years in the future.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780812568585
Author:
MacLeod, Ken
Publisher:
Tor Science Fiction
Author:
MacLeod, Ken
Location:
New York
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Life on other planets
Subject:
Science / General
Edition Description:
1st U.S. mass market ed.
Series Volume:
no. 9-1360
Publication Date:
20000815
Binding:
MM
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
6.75x4.15x.87 in. .30 lbs.
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