The Stone Canal
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WINNER OF THE PROMETHEUS AWARD
Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object.
Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remembers life on Earth as Jonathon Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear capability who was accused of losing World War III. That stranger remembers David Reid, New Mars's leader...and the women they fought over ideals they once shared.
Moving from twentieth-century Scotland through a tumultuous twenty-first century and outward to humanity's settlement on a planet circling another star, The Stone Canal is idea-driven science fiction at its best, making real and believable a future where long lives, strange deaths, and unexpected knowledge await those who survive the wars and revolutions to come.
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Created about 13 years agoAbout Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod lives near Edinburgh, Scotland. His first two novels, The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal, both won the Prometheus Award; his third, The Cassini Division, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Nebula Award, and his fourth, The Sky Road, won the British SF Association Award.
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