Cosmonaut Keep

Cosmonaut Keep (2000; US paperback ISBN 0-7653-4073-9), a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod. It is the first novel in the Engines of Light Trilogy and a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for best novel.

Literary significance and reception

Publishers Weekly had mostly praise for the novel saying "MacLeod handles the strands of the plot deftly, weaving one beautifully realized world with the other and highlighting the parallels between the two. Rarely does a book demand so much of the reader and then deliver. Densely written with a remarkable depth of cultural texture, though occasionally confusing in its politics (which includes socialists, "Webblies" and libertarian capitalists), MacLeod's story is spoiled only by the false notes of two parallel love interests."

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