Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod ist ein hoch angesehener britischer Science-Fiction-Autor aus Schottland. Seine Werke wurden mit mehreren prestigeträchtigen Preisen ausgezeichnet, wie dem Prometheus Award und dem British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award. Des Weiteren wurden seine Romane für Hugo und Nebula Awards nominiert, was seinen Ruf im Genre weiter festigte. MacLeod lebt in der Nähe von Edinburgh, Schottland und setzt seine Arbeit und Beiträge zur Science-Fiction-Gemeinschaft fort.

MacLeods akademischer Hintergrund ist vielfältig und gut geeignet für sein Genre. Er hat einen Abschluss in Zoologie der Glasgow University und Erfahrung als Computerprogrammierer. Zudem hat er ein Masterstudium in Biomechanik abgeschlossen. Diese unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen und Interessen haben MacLeod eine solide Basis für die technischen Elemente geliefert, die oft in seinen Science-Fiction-Romanen erkundet werden.

Ein wiederkehrendes Thema in MacLeods Werken ist die Untersuchung politischer Ideen, wobei er sich insbesondere auf sozialistische, kommunistische und anarchistische Philosophien konzentriert. Er taucht in verschiedene Versionen des Trotskyismus und Anarcho-Kapitalismus, oder extremer wirtschaftlicher Libertarismus, in seine Geschichten ein. Des Weiteren behandeln MacLeods Romane oft technische Themen wie Singularitäten, divergente menschliche kulturelle Evolution und posthumane Cyborg-Auferstehung. Diese Konzepte, kombiniert mit seinen politischen Interessen, schaffen eine einzigartige und nachdenkliche Erzählung in seinen Science-Fiction-Werken.
The Fall Revolution Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The Star Fraction 1995
2 The Stone Canal 1996
3 The Cassini Division 1998
4 The Sky Road 1999
Engines of Light Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Cosmonaut Keep 2000
2 Dark Light 2001
3 Engine City 2002
The Corporation Wars Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Dissidence 2016
2 Insurgence 2016
3 Emergence 2017
Lightspeed Trilogy Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Beyond the Hallowed Sky 2021
2 Beyond the Reach of Earth 2023
3 Beyond the Light Horizon 2024
Einzelromane
# Titel Jahr
1 The Human Front 2001
2 Newton's Wake 2004
3 Learning the World 2005
4 The Execution Channel 2007
5 The Night Sessions 2008
6 The Restoration Game 2010
7 Intrusion 2012
8 Descent 2014
Kurzgeschichten/Novellen
# Titel Jahr
1 Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359? 2007
2 Earth Hour 2011
3 Selkie Summer 2020
Sammlungen
# Titel Jahr
1 Giant Lizards From Another Star 2006
2 Poems 2015
3 Poems (With: Iain Banks) 2015
4 A Jura for Julia 2024
Chapbooks
# Titel Jahr
1 The Highway Men 2006
The Web - 2028 Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Webcrash ( By: Stephen Baxter) 1998
2 Webcrash 1998
3 Cydonia 1998
4 Spindrift (By: Maggie Furey) 1998
5 Spindrift 1998
6 Computopia 1998
7 Computopia (By: James Lovegrove) 1998
8 Avatar 1998
9 Avatar ( By: Pat Cadigan) 1998
10 Walkabout 1998
11 Walkabout (By: Eric Brown) 1998
12 The Web: 2028 (With: Pat Cadigan, Stephen Baxter, James Lovegrove, Eric Brown, Maggie Furey, Simon Spanton) 1999
13 The Web: 2028 1999
Outspoken Authors Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The Human Front 2001
2 The Left Left Behind 2009
3 The Left Left Behind (By: Terry Bisson, Eleanor Arnason) 2009
4 Lucky Strike (By: Kim Stanley Robinson) 2009
5 Lucky Strike 2009
6 The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips, Eleanor Arnason) 2010
7 The Underbelly 2010
8 Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010
9 Mammoths of the Great Plains 2010
10 The Wild Girls 2011
11 The Wild Girls (By: Ursula K. Le Guin, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
12 Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
13 Modem Times 2.0 2011
14 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (By: Cory Doctorow, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
15 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 2011
16 Report from Planet Midnight (By: Nalo Hopkinson, Eleanor Arnason) 2012
17 Surfing the Gnarl 2012
18 Report from Planet Midnight 2012
19 The Science of Herself (By: Karen Joy Fowler, Eleanor Arnason) 2013
20 The Science of Herself 2013
21 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason, Paul Krassner) 2013
22 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials 2013
23 New Taboos (By: John Shirley) 2013
24 New Taboos 2013
25 Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad, Eleanor Arnason) 2014
26 Raising Hell 2014
27 My Life, My Body (By: Marge Piercy) 2015
28 Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz, Eleanor Arnason) 2015
29 My Life, My Body 2015
30 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale, Eleanor Arnason) 2016
31 Gypsy 2015
32 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be 2016
33 Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand, Eleanor Arnason) 2017
34 Totalitopia (By: John Crowley) 2017
35 Fire. 2017
36 Totalitopia 2017
37 The Atheist in the Attic (By: Samuel R. Delany, Eleanor Arnason) 2018
38 The Atheist in the Attic 2018
39 Thoreau's Microscope (By: Michael Blumlein, Eleanor Arnason) 2018
40 The Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack) 2019
41 Thoreau's Microscope 2018
42 A City Made of Words (By: Paul Park) 2019
43 The Beatrix Gates 2019
44 Not What I Intended (By: Nancy Kress) 2025
45 A City Made of Words 2019
Year's Best SF Anthology Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Year's Best SF 1996
2 Year's Best SF 2 1997
3 Year's Best SF 3 1998
4 Year's Best SF 4 1999
5 Year's Best SF 5 2000
6 Year's Best SF 6 2001
7 Year's Best SF 7 2002
8 Year's Best SF 8 2003
9 Year's Best SF 9 2004
10 Year's Best SF 10 2005
11 Year's Best SF 11 2006
12 Year's Best SF 12 2007
13 Year's Best SF 13 2008
14 Year's Best SF 14 2009
15 Year's Best SF 15 2010
16 Year's Best SF 16 2011
17 Year's Best SF 17 2012
18 Year's Best SF 18 2013
Solaris Rising Anthology Books
# Titel Jahr
1 Solaris Rising (With: Pat Cadigan, Mike Resnick, Stephen Baxter, Lavie Tidhar, Peter F. Hamilton, Ian Watson, Eric Brown, Adam Roberts, Paul Di Filippo, Alastair Reynolds, Tricia Sullivan, Ian Whates, Richard Salter) 2011
2 Solaris Rising 1.5 (By: Paul Cornell, Tanith Lee, Mike Resnick, Aliette de Bodard, Adam Roberts, Paul Di Filippo, Ian Whates, Gareth L. Powell, Sarah Lotz, Philip Vine) 2012
3 Solaris Rising 2 (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Paul Cornell, Liz Williams, James Lovegrove, Robert Reed, Eugie Foster, Nancy Kress, Nick Harkaway, Norman Spinrad, Vandana Singh, Kim Lakin-Smith, Ian Whates, Paul Cornell, Jr., Kay Kenyon, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Martin Sketchley, Allan Steele) 2013
PM's Outspoken Authors Books
# Titel Jahr
1 The Presidential Papers (By: John H. Kessel) 1984
2 The Human Front 2001
3 The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips, Eleanor Arnason) 2010
4 Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010
5 Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock, Eleanor Arnason) 2011
6 Surfing the Gnarl (By: Rudy Rucker) 2012
7 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By: Eleanor Arnason, Paul Krassner) 2013
8 Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad, Eleanor Arnason) 2014
9 Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz) 2015
10 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale, Eleanor Arnason) 2016
11 Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand, Eleanor Arnason) 2017
12 The Atheist in the Attic (By: Samuel R. Delany, Eleanor Arnason) 2018
13 Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack) 2019
14 Talk Like a Man (By: Nisi Shawl) 2019
15 Big Girl (By: Meg Elison) 2020
16 Planetbreaker’s Son (By: Nick Mamatas) 2021
17 Utopias of the Third Kind (By: Vandana Singh) 2021
18 Night Shift (By: Eileen Gunn) 2022
19 The Collapsing Frontier (By: Jonathan Lethem) 2024
Ken MacLeod Anthologies
# Titel Jahr
1 Year's Best SF 1996
2 Year's Best SF 2 1997
3 Year's Best SF 3 1998
4 Year's Best SF 4 1999
5 Year's Best SF 5 2000
6 Year's Best SF 6 2001
7 Infinities 2002
8 Year's Best SF 7 2002
9 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 2002
10 Year's Best SF 8 2003
11 Year's Best SF 9 2004
12 Solaris Rising 2011
13 Year's Best SF 10 2005
14 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006
15 Year's Best SF 11 2006
16 Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge 2007
17 Year's Best SF 12 2007
18 The New Space Opera 2007
19 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007
20 Shoreline of Infinity 11½: Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition 2018
21 Space Opera 2007
22 Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition 2008
23 Year's Best SF 13 2008
24 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 2008
25 Seeds of Change 2008
26 Year's Best SF 14 2009
27 Year's Best SF 15 2010
28 The Sixty 2011
29 Year's Best SF 16 2011
30 Year's Best SF 17 2012
31 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection 2012
32 Where Rockets Burn Through 2012
33 Solaris Rising 2 2013
34 Year's Best SF 18 2013
35 Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 2013
36 Shoreline of Infinity 4 2016
37 Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition 2017
38 Shoreline of Infinity 11½ 2018
39 Best of British Science Fiction 2017 2018
40 Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of UK's Healthcare Workers 2020
41 Best of British Science Fiction 2019 2020
42 Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions 2022
43 The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories: Fourth Annual Collection 2023