The Star FractionMoh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory-enhancing drugs, fleeing the US/UN's technology cops. Jordan Brown is a teenager in the Christian enclave of Beulah City, dealing in theologically-correct software for the world's fundamentalists-and wants out. In a balkanized twenty-first century, where the "peace process" is deadlier than war, the US/UN's spy satellites have everyone in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans, and the lives of Moh, Janis, and Jordan are part of the program. A specter is haunting the fight for space and freedom, the specter of the betrayed revolution that happened before. . . . With The Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod burst onto the SF scene and began the Fall Revolution sequence that continued with The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road. |
Contents
Introduction to the American Edition | 11 |
Smoking Gunman | 13 |
Evidence for Aeroplanes | 27 |
Hardware Platform Interface | 41 |
Not Unacquainted with the More Obvious Laws of Electricity | 57 |
The FifthColor Country | 69 |
The Space and Freedom Party | 81 |
The Uploaded Gun | 97 |
The Cities of the Pretty | 179 |
The Horsemen of the Apocrypha | 193 |
Specters of Albion | 207 |
Expert Sister | 225 |
The Eve of JustinTime Destruction | 245 |
The Good Sorcerer | 259 |
The Americans Strike | 279 |
Dissembler | 291 |
The Virtual Venue | 109 |
To Each As He Is Chosen | 125 |
The Transitional Programmer | 139 |
Quantum Localities | 157 |
The Queen of the Maybe | 307 |
What I Do When They Shove Chinese Writing Under the Door | 319 |
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