Saturday, February 14, 2004

Newton's Wake

I just went looking to see if I could find any reviews of Ken Macleod's new novel Newton's Wake which is published in a couple of weeks' time. Unsurprisingly, no full reviews yet, but this comment from Patrick Nielsen Hayden, who edited it, makes me place it pretty highly on my 'I want to read that' list (and also on my wishlist, hintingly enough):
Ken MacLeod's Newton's Wake: A Space Opera is indeed primo stuff, as Charlie says. Favorite scene so far: the one in which our heroine, semi-stranded on a planet being terraformed by Korean Juche-ists preparatory to selling it to the farmers of "America Offline," curries favor with her hosts by playing them a recording of the play The Tragedy of Leonid Brezhnev, Prince of Muscovy. Some excerpts of which are given, in iambic pentameter.

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