Mastodawn

Engine City

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/31/engine-city/

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John Griogair Bell Oct 24

Dark Light

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/24/dark-light/

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John Griogair Bell Oct 17

Cosmonaut Keep

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/17/cosmonaut-keep/

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Nick Hubble Oct 31, 2024

Latest in my series of blogposts on Ken MacLeod's fiction. Here, I look in detail at the Engines of Light trilogy, a key work. Also some notes on the Dialectic, Historical Materialism, and the Scottish Programme.
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https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/road-from-glasgow-2024-ken-macleod-engines-of-light-cosmonaut-keep-orbit-2000-dark-light-orbit-2001-and-engine-city-orbit-2002/

Road from Glasgow 2024: Ken Macleod, Engines of Light: Cosmonaut Keep (Orbit, 2000), Dark Light (Orbit, 2001) and Engine City (Orbit, 2002)

Including Notes on the Dialectic, Historical Materialism and the Scottish Programme Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF in the run-up to, and aftermath of, this year’s WorldCon, focusing esp…

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