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Biog

All these 'fact' tags in the header frankly constitute vandalism. Anybody needing confirmation of the topic of his master's thesis should read the handy biog on the back cover of any of his books! I'll keep looking for a link that replicates that info for those who are really sceptical and don't have a copy of the Stone Canal handy! Famousdog 17:15, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trade Latin

Can somebody translate la:Latina mercatoria? --Error 23:28, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is 'The Sky Road' a different reality?

I'm not sure that 'The Sky Road' takes place in a different reality. The story is told by a descendent of the anti-technological outlaws who caused, or who became dominant after the Green Death as described in 'The Cassini Division' and about a hundred years later. The Tinkers are the computer users and makers who were defeated or banished in a mostly unrecorded way but who have been guiding humanity back towards space. The story is resolved quite well across the four books. Sfgreenwood 00:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It has been said that in The Sky Road the barbarians won, the capitalists lost and the socialists went away (to terraform Mars), while in The Stone Canal / The Cassini Division the socialists won, the barbarians lost and the capitalists went away (to terraform New Mars). —Tamfang (talk) 08:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah you're right, I guess it is pretty clearly a different reality.P4k (talk) 21:16, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note though that the divergence is what Myra did in 2059, after the death of Jon Wilde in 2046; so the parts of The Stone Canal that describe events on Earth (narrated by Jay-Dub) belong to the undivided timeline. —Tamfang (talk) 21:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

EoL background

How relevant is the revival of socialism (a detail I had forgotten) in the background of Engines of Light? None of the story itself takes place anywhere near Earth, so it's misleading to mention events on Earth in the summary. —Tamfang 19:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Likewise, it's not an alternate history but rather straight-up speculative fiction, as the Earth events described occur in the future at the time the story was written. The Engines of Light section needs some re-working... GreatGraySkwid 15:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, a lot of Cosmonaut Keep occurs on Earth, with the political situtation being part of the reason the Bright Star sets out in the first place. Lurker (said · done) 17:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Infobox Has Defeated Me Once Again

Someone edit, please.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.132.236.33 (talk • contribs)

I changed the Infobox to the Infobox Writer template, which gives a few more options. There was a problem with some of the terms in the old version to do with the syntax used by Infobox Biography. (And I nicked the new version from the Iain Banks article, if you want to make something of that ;O) ) Someone might want to clean up the new version FlowerpotmaN (t · c) 20:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes section

Eloquent as some of these are (the "These names will be written" just moved me to tears again; and I'm the one who put it there, so it should have lost some of its power by now), shouldn't this all be moved to Wikiquotes? I have no idea how to do that. --Orange Mike 13:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As soon as I've got time, I will start a page for Ken Macleod at Wikiquote. --Meile 14:15, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done! --Meile 20:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should these quotes be deleted at this point?Prezbo (talk) 07:06, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done (and moved to tears again, dammit!) --Orange Mike | Talk 16:12, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Human Genre Project

The Human Genre Project, a collection of works about genres collated and maintained by MacLeod

Huh? What are "works about genres"? (The series of comic novels based on movie genres comes to mind, but seems not to fit here.) Clicking the link I see a collection of short fiction apparently inspired by genetic research, organized by chromosome. —Tamfang (talk) 23:03, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

the webblies

The international workers of the world wide web (weblies) is from For The Win by Cory Doctorow, isn't it? I am unfamiliar with MacLeod's work, can anyone speak w/ authority on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.184.34 (talk) 23:08, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They certainly appear in Cosmonaut Keep by Maclead; don't know if Cory uses them too. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC) (dues-paying Wobbly)[reply]

He does. For the Win was published much more recently (2010) and is available free online under a Creative Commons license here. But Doctorow says in the Acknowledgements section "Many thanks to Ken Macleod for letting me use IWWWW and "Webbly." " so no problems with plagiarism. Famousdog (talk) 09:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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