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Engine
City (Engines Of Light Book 3) by Ken MacLeod Orbit.
271 page hardback. Price: £16.99 (UK). ISBN: 1-84149-148-9. Check out website: www.orbitbooks.co.uk
It details the story of three Earth cosmonauts who build the first human light-speed ship and travel to distant worlds and try to stop the gods (who are the consciousness of stars) from destroying civilisations like we would destroy a fly buzzing about our head. I think that I enjoyed this book so much because it is like real life (insomuch as a Science Fiction novel populated by alien spider-monkeys and ancient ancestors annoying their descendants can be). The story it tells is both large scale and sweeping and also small and detailed. You can read this book if you are interested in society and politics and the effects that individuals have on these institutions. Or you can read this book if you like the interplay between well-written and believable characters. It also has one of enigmatic but also satisfying endings to a book, Ken
McLeod did not shy away from a realistic (in the context of this book) ending,
not sacrificing any of the characters' personality traits for an easy ending to
this book. I have read the second book in the series but I have not
read the first one but the prologue in this book and explanations throughout the
text explained a lot about the story and I thought that this book was more able
to stand on its own. Katie McGivern
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OTHER REVIEWS - January 2003
Other reviews: January 2003 Mermaids And Magic Shows: The Paintings Of David Delamare with text by Nigel Suckling Engine City (Engines Of Light Book 3) by Ken MacLeod Enterprise: Shockwave - novelisation by Paul Ruditis Tales From Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin Restoration (book 2 of The Rai-Kirah) by Carol Berg Star Wars II: Attack Of The Clones Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey Smallville: Strange Visitors by Roger Stern Smallville: Dragon by Alan Grant Star Trek: Gateways: What Lay Beyond (book 7 of 7) Enterprise: What Price Honor? by Dave Stern The House On The Borderland And Other Novels by William Hope Hodgson In Search Of Forever by Rodney Mathews with text by Nigel Suckling Splintered Light: Logos And Language In Tolkien's World (Revised Edition) by Verlyn Flieger Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season 2 Volume 3
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'Engine
City' is the third book in Ken McLeod's series 'Engines of Light'.
I
have tried to write that last sentence about ten times and I still
haven't told half of the plot intricacies. It is a huge plot contained
within some tightly written, idea-packed prose. And it works.
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