Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)
Kenneth Macrae MacLeod è un autore di fantascienza scozzese.
Vive nelle vicinanze di Edimburgo. Si è laureato all'Università di Glasgow in zoologia e ha lavorato come programmatore.
I suoi libri trattano spesso i temi politici come il socialismo, il comunismo e l'anarchia, soffermandosi in particolare sulle varianti del trotskismo e dell'anarco-capitalismo o del libertarismo estremo. A livello tecnologico invece tra i temi maggiormente affrontati troviamo la singolarità tecnologica, forme estreme di evoluzione sociale del genere umano, resurrezione-cyborg post-umana. Lo stile di MacLeod è stato definito come techno-progressivo anche se, a differenza di altri autori dello stesso genere, MacLeod ha espresso grande scetticismo verso un eccessivo sviluppo della tecnologia e specialmente verso l'opportunità di avere intelligenze artificiali forti. Alcuni dei suoi personaggi sono dei radicali anti-tecnologia.
Fa parte della nuova generazione di scrittori di fantascienza inglesi specializzati principalmente in fantascienza hard e space opera. Tra i suoi contemporanei citiamo Iain Banks, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross e Liz Williams. Wikipedia

Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)
weblog post http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_kenmacleod_archive.html, 3 September 2004 <br class="br">Other sources
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 264)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 15 “Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone” (p. 248)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 9 “Red Sun Circle” (pp. 136-137)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 239)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 3 “Spectral Lines” (p. 40)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 17 “Fire in the Sky” (p. 284)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 9 “Red Sun Circle” (p. 148)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 9 “Red Sun Circle” (pp. 134-135)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 237)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 19 “A Full and Frank Exchange of Views” (p. 326)
“I take small interest in politics,” he said. “The subject repels me.”
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 232)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 15 “Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone” (p. 249)
“Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.”
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 4 “A Moving Point of Light” (p. 51)
“Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.”
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 273)
“It saddened him that military technology was so much more advanced than he’d ever imagined.”
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 8 “Security Concerns” (p. 122)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 21 “But The Sky, My Lady! The Sky!” (p. 358)
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 4 “A Moving Point of Light” (p. 51)
USENET posting to rec.sf.arts.fandom http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/browse_frm/thread/303b0da0ab25aee/b12adceacd343279 28 September 2000, in the discussion of Robert A. Heinlein's quote "The cowards never started and the weaklings died on the way." (Expanded Universe, How to be a Survivor in the Atomic Age) <br class="br">Other sources
“We’re in danger of losing the ship generation.”
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
“I’m aware of the problems,” she said. “‘You can’t tell the boys from the girls, they have no respect for their elders, their user interfaces are garish and unwieldy, everybody is writing a book, and their music is just noise.’ Found scratched on a potsherd in Sumer.”
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 15 “Hollow Spaces of the Forward Cone” (p. 248)
“Anyway…I find what you write interesting.”
Ken MacLeod libro Learning the World
“That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.”
Origine: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 7 “Television” (p. 110)