Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod
Kenneth Macrae "Ken" MacLeodis a Scottish science fiction writer...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 August 1954
writing secret becoming
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.
what-if impossible socialism
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
two long world
It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.
astronomy superstitious
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.
simple wings philosopher
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.
leaving fiction strange
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.