The Stone Canal

There is more than a hint of a heroic ethic here, though the hero in question may be more like Miltons Satan than Captain Future. As much fun as [MacLeods] books provide, its that fierceness, that seriousness of purpose, that powers their engines and makes me want to read on. - Locus

McLeod is writing revolutionary SF . . . A nova has appeared in our sky. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but deaths only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, and only the Abolitionists object.

Until a young man walks into Ship City, a clone who remembers Jon Wildes life as an anarchist with nuclear capability, who was accused of losing World War 3. He also remembers Dave Reid, the citys boss, who haunts Wildes memory to the end ... a cold death in Kazakhstan. In Reids cyborg concubine, Dee Model, both men see the image of their obsessions, and information that wants to be free. But she has ideas of her own ...

THE STONE CANAL moves from the recent past into a distant future, where long lives and strange deaths await those who survive the wars and revolutions to come.

The acclaimed second novel in the Fall Revolution sequence.

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
Newtons Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent