{"product_id":"cosmonaut-keep-engines-of-light-book-one-9781841490670","title":"Cosmonaut Keep: Engines of Light: Book One","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\"Cosmonaut Keep\" is a portal to a deeply imagined future history that parlays X-Files paranoia about Area 51 and alien Greys into a vast interstellar community watched over by microcosmic gods.' - \u003ci\u003ePaul McAuley, INTERZONE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Science fiction's freshest new writer' - \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Ural Caspian Oil War, nobody really trusted the EU government. So why should their extraordinary announcement of first contact with alien intelligence be believed? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatt Cairns thinks he can discover the truth. It is out there, but much, much further away than he could have imagined.  Thousands of light-years from Earth, a human colony is struggling for survival. The world on which they have settled, however, has already been inhabited by humans - and other intelligent species from Earth - for millennia. In that ancient division of labour, humans do have a place. But where is it? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwenty-first-century political intrigue becomes space opera on an epic scale in Ken MacLeod's first book in a dazzling new series. His most ambitious novel to date, it will take one of Britain's most exciting new science fiction authors to even greater heights of success and critical acclaim.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks by Ken MacLeod:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFall Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Star Fraction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Canal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cassini Division\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sky Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngines of Light\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmonaut Keep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEngine City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorporation Wars Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDissidence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInsurgence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmergence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Human Front\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewton's Wake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Execution Channel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Restoration Game\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntrusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDescent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistinctive, politically challenging, both tantalizing and satisfying. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003cbr\u003eRarely does a book demand so much of the reader-and then deliver. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003cbr\u003eLike a British--specifically, Scots--counterpart of Bruce Sterling, Ken MacLeod is an SF author who has thought hard about politics and delights in making unlikely alternatives plausible, grippingly readable and often downright funny. * Cosmonaut Keep swaps between two timelines whose characters share the ultimate goal of interstellar travel. In an uncertain future on the far world of Mingulay, human colonists live in the title's ancient, alien-built Keep--coexisting with reptilian \"saur *\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile alternate chapters present a mid-21st century Earth whose EU is (to America's horror) Russian-dominated with a big red star in the middle of its flag, rumours of alien contact aboun, and computer whizzkid Matt Cairns finds himself carrying a dat * Clearly the later storyline's Gregor Cairns is Matt's descendant. There are ingenious connections and surprises, with witty resonances between their wild careers, their travels and their bumpy love-lives. The foreground action-adventure points to a bigger *\u003cbr\u003eCosmonaut Keep opens MacLeod's new SF sequence Engines of Light. It is highly entertaining and intelligent, promising more good things to come. * David Langford, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003eThis man is going to be a major writer * IAIN M. BANKS *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771527004503,"sku":"9781841490670","price":23.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841490670.jpg?v=1758728163","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cosmonaut-keep-engines-of-light-book-one-9781841490670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}