The Human Front (14 page)
Authors: Ken MacLeod
“Rewriting Humanity: Reflections on the Possibility and Desirability of Genetic Engineering,”
Scientific Notes
13, Libertarian Alliance, 2001.
“Whole Wide World” (review),
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
31, no. 84, Spring 2002.
”Singularity Skies,”
Locus
51, no. 2 (issue no. 511) (August 2003): 41–42.
“Politics and Science Fiction.” In
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction,
edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
“Space.”
Sunday Herald,
March 2004.
“Socialism on One Planet.”
Socialist Standard,
June 2004.
“Does SF Have to Be About the Present?”
New York Review of Science Fiction,
Fall 2004.
“I Robot, You Robot?”
BT Business Together,
2004.
“Islands, Funerals, and the Footnotes of Buckle.”
The Scorpion 2,
2005.
“The Profession of Science Fiction: Seeing Through the Atmosphere,”
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
36, no. 99, Spring 2007.
“The Biologists Strike Back,” (contributor)
Nature
448 (July 5, 2007): 18–21.
“Refloating the Ark,”
Morning Star,
March 3, 2008.
“Blood Music,
Greg Bear, 1985,”
SFX,
July 2008.
“A
Case of Conscience,
James Blish, 1958,” SFX, December 2008.
“Flood,
by Stephen Baxter” (review),
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
38, no. 105, Spring 2009.
“The Centauri Device,
M. John Harrison, 1974,” SFX, October 2009.
“Space Odyssey,” with Dr. Duncan Steel,
BBC Focus Magazine
198, January 2009.
“Reading the Genome,”
ESRC Genomics Network Newsletter
9, Spring 2009.
”Starship Troopers,
Robert A. Heinlein, 1959,”
SFX,
February 2010.
“Humanity Will Thank Heaven That This Creator of Synthetic Life Is Playing God,”
Guardian,
May 21, 2010.
“Gattaca,” in
Cinema Futura,
edited by Mark Morris, PS Publishing, 2010.
“Cities in Flight,
James Blish, 1970,” SFX, November 2010.
“Engaging the Public with Genomics through Literary Networks and Fan Communities,” Genomics Forum Briefing, edited by Dr. Christine Knight, 2010.
“Living with the Genome—Ten Years On,” with Dr. Steve Sturdy,
The Gen,
September 2010.
“The Future Will Happen Here, Too,” in
The Bottle Imp
8, Fall 2010, Association for Scottish Literary Studies.
“Science Fiction Opens Up the Universe,”
Guardian,
July 14, 2011.
Giant Lizards from Another Star,
NESFA Press, 2006.
“Faith as a Grain of Poppy Seed,”
Poetry and Audience
23, no. 3.
“Succession,”
New Dawn Fades
10.
Poems and Polemics
(Minneapolis: Rune Press, 2001).
The Human Genre Project,
a website of poetry and short prose pieces (stories and reflections) inspired by genetics and genomics. The website is supported by the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum.
http://www.humangenreproject.com/index.php
.
The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod,
edited by Andrew M. Butler and Farah Mendlesohn (Reading: The Science Fiction Foundation, 2003).
“‘What’s Past Is Prologue’: Historical Causation and Agency in Ken MacLeod’s
The Star Fraction
and
The Stone Canal,”
John H. Arnold,
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
34, no. 93, Spring 2005.
“Ken MacLeod and the Practice of History,” Sherryl Vint,
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
35, no. 96, Spring 2006.
“Ken MacLeod’s Permanent Revolution: Utopian Possible Worlds, History, and the
Augenblick
in the ‘Fall Revolution,’” Philip Wegner, in
Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction,
edited by Mark Bould and China Miéville (London: Pluto Press, 2009).
K
EN MACLEOD WAS BORN
in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, on August 2, 1954. He is married with two grown-up children and lives in West Lothian. He has honours and master’s degree in biological subjects and worked for some years in the IT industry.
Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. In 2009 he was Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University, and is now Writer in Residence at the MA Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University.
He is the author of thirteen novels, from
The Star Fraction
(Legend, 1995) to
Intrusion
(Orbit, 2012), and many articles and short stories. His novels and stories have received three BSFA Awards and three Prometheus Awards, and several have been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards.
Ken MacLeod’s blog is
The Early Days of a Better Nation
(
http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com
). His Twitter feed is
@amendlocke
.
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