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Dark Light

By Ken MacLeod

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| Paperback | 9781841491097

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A Tale of Humans In a Universe of Ubiquitous Alien Life

Intelligence, it turns out, is rare—on planetary surfaces. It thrives everywhere else, from the Oort-cloud fringes of star systems to the magma furnaces beneath planetary crusts. And among the most powerful of the galaxyRContinue

A Tale of Humans In a Universe of Ubiquitous Alien Life

Intelligence, it turns out, is rare—on planetary surfaces. It thrives everywhere else, from the Oort-cloud fringes of star systems to the magma furnaces beneath planetary crusts. And among the most powerful of the galaxy’s intelligences, there are profound differences of opinion about how to deal with surface life-forms such as human beings.

For, untold light years from Earth, the powers that rule the universe have been, for millennia, plucking humans (and other intelligent beings) from Earth and forcibly resettling them in a number of star systems close to one another, leaving them to develop on their own. A few generations ago, a small cadre of humans from Earth’s 21st century arrived in this “Second Sphere” on their own power—the first humans ever to do so. Their descendants have formed the “Cosmonaut” class that dominates Mingulay. Now, two hundred years later, Gregor Cairns and a small group of associates have rediscovered faster-than-light travel and traveled to the star system next door. They’re determined to find more of the original, mysteriously long-lived cosmonauts. They want answers. And for those answers, they intend to interrogate the gods.

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  • The Best Reviews: Ken MacLeod, Dark Light

    "The sequel is better than the prequel" The most powerful sentient beings known in the universe have been relocating humans, Saurs, and other intelligent species from one star system to another for at last several millennium. In the twenty-third cent ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Dark Light

    Ken Macleod's socialist science fiction universe gets a lot clearer in 'Dark Light', the second novel of his 'Engines of Light' series. This time around, he focuses his story on Croatoan, the sister world to Mingulay in the "Second Sphere", a region ... (read full critics)

    bookotron published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

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  • Really enjoying this sequel to Cosmonaut Keep. Some of the ideas feel a little simplistic from time to time and McLeod's use of the present tense is sometimes distracting but overall, this is a very good read, full of very interesting ideas.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 384 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1841491098
  • ISBN-13: 9781841491097
  • Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk
  • Pub date: Sep 30, 2002
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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