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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 Nation http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com His twitter feed is @amendlockeKen MacLeod's novels are fast, funny and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these: he is writing revolutionary SF
- Kim Stanley Robinson,
Brims with ideas, politics and memorable characters . . . MacLeod's most entertaining novel
- SFX on THE CORPORATION WARS: DISSIDENCE,
Remarkably human, funny and smartly-designed . . . it rips along on rockets
- Warren Ellis on THE CORPORATION WARS: DISSIDENCE,
Science fiction's freshest new writer . . . MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down
- SALON,
[<i>The Corporation Wars</i>] is a kind of action-packed <i>Dirty Dozen</i> or <i>Suicide Squad</i> scenario . . . . MacLeod does many astonishing things here. He creates viable, believable multiplex interactions among so many different sets of characters, human and robot. His detailing of the non-human way of thinking and speaking employed by the freebots is fun and exemplary . . . . He shows a keen hand with action sequences. And there is a generous amount of humor to leaven the otherwise dire and deadly consequences of the multi-front war.
- LOCUS,
"[<i>The Corporation Wars</i>] hits the main vein of conversation about locks on artificial intelligence and living in simulations and exoplanetary exploitation and drone warfare and wraps it all into a remarkably human, funny, and smartly-designed yarn. It is, in fact, a king-hell commercial entertainment... It rips along on rockets.
- WARREN ELLIS,
[<i>The Corporation Wars</i>] is a tasty broth of ideas taking in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of law and disquisitions on military ethics.
- THE HERALD (Glasgow),
For my money, Ken MacLeod is the current champion of the very smartest kind of New Space Opera... every variation on his themes produces something worth re-reading.
- LOCUS,
MacLeod manages big Ideas (political and futurological) and propulsive action without short-changing either side of that classic science-fictional tension-of-opposites.
- LOCUS,