Beyond the Hallowed Sky

Book One of the Lightspeed Trilogy

By: Ken MacLeod

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Paperback | 30 November 2021 | Edition Number 1

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When a brilliant scientist gets a letter from herself about faster-than-light travel, she doesn't know what to believe. The equations work, but her paper is discredited - and soon the criticism is more than scientific. Exiled by the establishment, she gets an offer to build her starship from an unlikely source. But in the heights of Venus and on a planet of another star, a secret is already being uncovered that will shake humanity to its foundations.

Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod begins a new space opera trilogy by imagining humankind on the precipice of discovery - the invention of faster-than-light travel unlocks a universe of new possibilities, and new dangers.

About the Author

Ken MacLeod was born on the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Gourock, Scotland. He has a postgraduate degree in biomechanics and worked for some years in IT. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of seventeen novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to The Corporation Wars (2018), and many articles and short stories. He has won three BSFA awards and three Prometheus Awards, and been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards.

He was a Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University, and Writer in Residence for the MA Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University.

Industry Reviews

Brimming with smart ideas and shot through with a mordant wit . . . one feels that the future of Scottish SF is in good hands

MacLeod is up there with Banks and Hamilton as one of the British sci-fi authors you absolutely have to read - SFX

Science fiction's freshest new writer . . . MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down - Salon

Prose as sleek and fast as the technology it describes . . . watch this man go global

Ken MacLeod has an enviable track record of extrapolating from current trends to produce mind-bending novels of ideas

MacLeod is putting the moral, intellectual and political seriousness of science fiction back centre stage

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