A master of politically charged sf, MacLeod channels our contemporary preoccupation with terrorism into an engulfing stream of espionage and international intrigue. -- BOOKLIST
Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these. -- KIM STANLEY ROBINSON
Science fiction's freshest new writer...MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down. -- SALON
Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel starts like a techno-thriller "ripped from tomorrow's headlines", a thrilling, fast-moving tale of suspense rife with paranoia and multiple conspiracy theories. However, it's deeper and more thoughtful than most thrillers. MacLeod vividly and economically portrays an all-too-plausible world in which war has spread across the Middle East and Central Asia; millions of Americans live in FEMA concentration camps due to climate change; the British Government is considering deporting all Muslims, and what's really happening is hidden in a blizzard of disinformation and propaganda. This is politically engaged, speculative fiction at its finest, with a conclusion that's absolutely mind-blowing. ― THE TIMES
Politically engaged, speculative fiction at its finest, with a conclusion that's absolutely mind-blowing ― The Times
Jaw-droppingly audacious ― SFX
A very good book, perhaps the best Ken MacLeod has written to date . . . The Execution Channel is an extraordinary novel ― STRANGE HORIZONS
Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel starts like a techno-thriller "ripped from tomorrow's headlines", a thrilling, fast-moving tale of suspense rife with paranoia and multiple conspiracy theories. However, it's deeper and more thoughtful than most thrillers. MacLeod vividly and economically portrays an all-too-plausible world in which war has spread across the Middle East and Central Asia; millions of Americans live in FEMA concentration camps due to climate change; the British Government is considering deporting all Muslims, and what's really happening is hidden in a blizzard of disinformation and propaganda. This is politically engaged, speculative fiction at its finest, with a conclusion that's absolutely mind-blowing. - THE TIMES
Politically engaged, speculative fiction at its finest, with a conclusion that's absolutely mind-blowing - The Times
Jaw-droppingly audacious - SFX
A very good book, perhaps the best Ken MacLeod has written to date . . . The Execution Channel is an extraordinary novel - STRANGE HORIZONS
Book Description
Ken MacLeod's most relevant and accessible novel to date.
From the Publisher
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full time.
Author Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
The Fall Revolution: The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, The Sky Road. Engines of Light: Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light, Engine City (9781841492032). Newton's Wake (9781841492247). Learning the World (9781841493442).
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.com
His twitter feed is @amendlocke