Learning the World: a Scientific Romance - Softcover

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 was a finalist for the Hugo Award, as were his next two novels, Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light. His most recent novel is Newton's Wake. Ken MacLeod lives near Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and children.

"Uncommonly sharp."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred) on Learning the World

"Compelling!"
--Entertainment Weekly on Learning the World

"Highly entertaining."
--Locus on Learning the World

"Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these."
--Kim Stanley Robinson

"Far more fun than deep space drama has any right to be...Just read the book. Then read it again. It's even better the second time."
--SFX on Newton's Wake

"MacLeod's inventiveness, verbal playfulness, and bloody-minded irony never flag for a moment."
--Locus on Engine City

"Ken MacLeod doesn't just create believable futures--he breaks them down to explain what makes them tick."
--Wired

"Stylish, witty, and engaging!"
--San Diego Union Tribune on Newton's Wake

"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 brings dramatic life to some of the core issues of technology and humanity."
--Vernor Vinge

"For my money, Ken MacLeod is the current champion of the very smartest kind of New Space Opera: a relentlessly engaged thinker about nitty-gritty political-economic-social matters who also operates on the Romantic end of the genre by imagining worlds that offer vast (and even godlike) possibilities for humankind."
--Locus


"Uncommonly sharp."

(Kirkus Reviews)

"Compelling!"
(Entertainment Weekly)

"Highly entertaining."
(Locus)