[books 2012] Ken Macleod

[inulro]

11. Learning the World: A Novel of First Contact by Ken Macleod

A spaceship whose purpose is to travel the galaxy and plant new colonies finds a sign of life, for the first time in thousands of years of colonisation.  The "aliens" are a sort of bat people at a level of development that roughly parallels the eve of World War I.

The story is told

Comments

[zotz]

I was talking the other night to someone who's already read the new one, the bastard. Apparently it's good, and it's a bit Gattacaish.

[inulro]

Why does it not surprise me that you know people who get to read his works before the release date.

[zotz]

Not well enough to get sight of a copy myself, unfortunately. It'll be down to the bookshop for me.

[inulro]

I think I'm getting it from the library.

[zenithed]

Aargh I'm so behind on Ken Macleod. What would you most recommend since Engines of Light?

[inulro]

The night Sessions, bit I haven't read the other newer ones.