Newton's Wake

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Newton's Wake

With visionary epics like The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and Cosmonaut Keep, award-winning Scottish author Ken MacLeod has led a revolution in contemporary science fiction, blending cutting edge science and razor-sharp political insights with pure, over-the-top interstellar adventure. Now MacLeod takes this heady mix to a new level with a stunning new SF masterwork--Newton's Wake. In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture--a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings--a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered. Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Skein, a chain of interplanetary star-gates left behind by the posthumans. But on a world called Eurydice, a remote planet at the farthest rim of the galaxy, Lucinda stumbled upon a forgotten relic of the past that could threaten her way of life.

Alternate Titles:	Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
Author:	Ken MacLeod
Published:	2004
Genre:	Science Fiction, Space Opera, New Space Opera
Tags:	Publication, Book, Novel, Space Opera, New Space Opera, Read, Story Survey, Want to Read Again, Pick, Novel Pick, SF Pick, Space Opera Pick, New Space Opera Pick
Viewpoint:	Third Person
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Amazon:	Kindle, Paperback
Goodreads:	Newton's Wake

Story Survey

• Title: Newton's Wake
• Author: Ken MacLeod
• Length: Novel
• Publication Year: 2004
• Source: Tor paperback (2005)
• ISFDB: ISFDB entry
• wikipedia.org: Newton's Wake
• Genre: Science Fiction / New Space Opera
• Starting Genre: SF
• Starting Perspective: 3rd
• Starting Tense: past tense
• Starting Action Level: 2.5 (out of 5)
• Starting Hook Level: 4 (out of 5)
• Starting Tension Level: 2.5 (out of 5)
• Starting Genre Level: 4 (out of 5)
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Chapter 1

Combat Archaeology

As soon as she stepped through the gate Lucinda Carlyle knew the planet had been taken, and knew it would be worth taking back. It bore the thumbprints of hurried terraforming: bluish grass and moss, low shrubbery like heather. No animal life was visible, but she had no doubt it was there. Five kilometres away across an otherwise barren moor dotted with outcrops and bogs a kilometre-high diamond machine speared the sky. Complex in aspect, somewhere between basalticc cliff and a cathedral, it had shown up on the robot probe, but that was nothing compared to actually looking at it.

She turned away from it and looked back at the gate. It was marked by a hilltop henge, whether by the gate's builders or by subsequent, less sophisticated minds she couldn't guess: tow three-metre slabs upended, topped by a third. One by one her team stepped forth from the unlikely shimmer and gazed around the landscape. A yellow G5 sun blinked a bleary, wtery morning eye over the horizon.

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