Descent

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'Descent is politically engaged, brimming with smart ideas and shot through with a mordant wit. The novel is dedicated to the memory of MacLeod's friend Iain M. Banks, and one feels that the future of Scottish SF is in good hands' - James Lovegrove, The Financial Times

'Ken MacLeod is the modern day George Orwell' - SFX

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE TRUTH

Ball lightning. Weather balloons. Secret military aircraft. Ryan knows all the justifications for UFO sightings. But when something falls out of the sky on the hills near his small Scottish town, he finds his cynicism can't identify or explain the phenomenon.

And in a future where nothing is a secret, where everything is recorded on CCTV or reported online, why can he find no evidence of the UFO, nor anything to shed light on what occurred Is it the political revolutionaries, is it the government or is it aliens themselves who are creating the cover-up Or does the very idea of a cover-up hide the biggest secret of all

Ken MacLeod, author of 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated Intrusion, tells a science fiction story for the twenty-first century - this is what happens when conspiracy theorists meet Big Brother.

Books by Ken MacLeod:

Fall Revolution

The Star Fraction

The Stone Canal

The Cassini Division

The Sky Road

Engines of Light

Cosmonaut Keep

Dark Light

Engine City

Corporation Wars Trilogy

Dissidence

Insurgence

Emergence

Novels

The Human Front

Newton's Wake

Learning the World

The Execution Channel

The Restoration Game

Intrusion

Descent

Reviews

A steely, brilliant piece of work

Insightful and ingenious . . . Intrusion is both horrific and comic, and deals movingly with the consequences of genetic fixes

Ken MacLeod is the modern day George Orwell - SFX

Politically engaged, speculative fiction at its finest

Descent is politically engaged, brimming with smart ideas and shot through with a mordant wit. The novel is dedicated to the memory of MacLeod's friend Iain M. Banks, and one feels that the future of Scottish SF is in good hands. - The Financial Times

Author Bio

Ken MacLeod is the author of twelve previous novels, five of which have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and two which have won the BSFA Award. Ken MacLeod is married with two grown-up children and lives in West Lothian.