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Details
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Title
The Night Sessions
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Binding
Paperback
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Edition
1St Edition
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
263
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Pyr, Amherst
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Date
2012-04-24
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Bookseller's Inventory #
BOS-J-04a-01592
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ISBN
9781616146139 / 1616146133
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Weight
0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
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Dimensions
8.99 x 6.07 x 0.74 in (22.83 x 15.42 x 1.88 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Mystery fiction, Edinburgh (Scotland)
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2011050586
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
From the publisher
Ken 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 an Honours and Masters degree in biological subjects and worked for some years in the IT industry. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer, and in 2009 was Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University. He is the author of twelve novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to The Restoration Game (2010), and many articles and short stories. His novels have received two BSFA awards and three Prometheus Awards, and several have been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards. Ken MacLeod's weblog is The Early Days of a Better Nation: http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com
Media reviews
"As ever, MacLeod's depiction of the near future is achieved through solid characterisation and brilliant detail. His forte is the depiction of how belief systems can corrupt, and The Night Sessions is a stunning indictment of fundamentalism of all kinds."
-The Guardian
"The characterisation is good, the processes realistic and the plot suitably complex, though never enough to confuse. Ken leads his audience through a number of set pieces to a satisfying ending. I must admit that, despite not being a religious person myself, I did have my doubts that such an extreme situation could come about in reality, though if you are able to suspend your disbelief (as I did) there’s a lot to get your teeth into here. In summary then, as good as I had hoped after The Execution Channel. Intelligent, entertaining and knowledgeable, this is everything you might expect or hope for from a Ken MacLeod SF novel. Perhaps slightly more SF than The Execution Channel, though not that much more, it does make an interesting counterpoint with Charles Stross’ Halting State, which has similar elements in a near-future setting (and who, coincidentally, is acknowledged at the beginning of the book.) Of the two, although I liked Halting State a lot, I preferred this."
-SFF World
"In Hollywood terms, it's high concept: in a world where religion is banned, what happens when robots find God? …The Night Sessions is a fast, entertaining read with some challenging ideas behind it. … if The Night Sessions' conclusion is not quite as audacious as that of the previous novel, it is nevertheless strikingly brutal and brave, a welcome sign of a novelist willing to follow through the implications of his set-up."
-Strange Horizons
Citations
- Asimov's Science Fiction, 11/01/2012, Page 183
- Booklist, 03/15/2012, Page 28
- Library Journal, 04/15/2012, Page 65
- Publishers Weekly, 02/27/2012, Page 65
- Romantic Times, 04/01/2012, Page 69
About the author
Ken MacLeod lives in Scotland. He has honors and master's degrees in biological subjects and worked for some years in the IT industry. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of nineteen novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to Beyond the Reach of Earth (2023), 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.
