[books 2014] Ken McLeod
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inulro29. Descent by Ken McLeod
Set in Edinburgh in the age of our grandchildren (more or less), Ryan has an alien abduction experience as a teen. But he's savvy, he knows it he wasn't actually abducted by aliens and it was more likely to be a top secret aerospace project.
Nonetheless, this even has a pretty big impact on his life thereafter, a time of big change in Scotland and the world. The Depression (which is strongly hinted has been going on since our own crash in 2008) seems to be over and the political landscape is changing. Revolutionaries give up and go home...or do they.
I loved this - in some ways, not a lot happens, but it's the way he tells it. It's Ken McLeod, so it's full of ideas, but not in a way that bogs you down and makes you take a long break to process like in a lot of his works.
It's probably my second favourite of his books, after The Night Sessions.
Set in Edinburgh in the age of our grandchildren (more or less), Ryan has an alien abduction experience as a teen. But he's savvy, he knows it he wasn't actually abducted by aliens and it was more likely to be a top secret aerospace project.
Nonetheless, this even has a pretty big impact on his life thereafter, a time of big change in Scotland and the world. The Depression (which is strongly hinted has been going on since our own crash in 2008) seems to be over and the political landscape is changing. Revolutionaries give up and go home...or do they.
I loved this - in some ways, not a lot happens, but it's the way he tells it. It's Ken McLeod, so it's full of ideas, but not in a way that bogs you down and makes you take a long break to process like in a lot of his works.
It's probably my second favourite of his books, after The Night Sessions.
