Ian R. MacLeod

• Jul-1997
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• Aug-1997
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Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel This prescient and ground-breaking novel is set in a near-future where the privileged citizens of Europe shelter behind immense physical and biotechnical barriers from a world ravaged by climate change a...

• May-2003
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“MacLeod is set to become a writer of the magnitude of Dickens or Tolkien.” -- The Guardian Aether is industry, industry is magic and the Great Guilds rule the known world. Raised amid the smokestakes, terraced houses and endless subterranean po...

• Jun-2004
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This collection of literary short fiction combines fantasy, science fiction, and horror in vivid settings, peopled with ordinary humans with normal relationships, and the interaction of the mundane with the fantastic. In “Breathmoss,” a young gir...

• Jan-2005
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To save her only son from the ravages of consumption, the Greatgrandmistress of the Telegraphers Guild, Alice Meynell, has made a bargain with her former lover-a changeling in the land of Einfell where magic may accomplish what science could not-to d...

• Sep-2010
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Journeys will take you to extraordinary places. From a changed Jerusalem to windmills which draw their own wind. From windswept British campsites to vast slave empires which have never been. MacLeod's breadth of vision in this collection is extraordi...

• Apr-2013
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As seen on Sky Arts’ Playhouse Presents: Imagine there’s no Lennon . . . In the reality-altering novella “Snodgrass,” John Lennon sidesteps his musical destiny and instead becomes a civil servant After spending his adolescence like so many...

• Jun-2013
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A future world of unrelenting change, strangeness, and uncertainty, experienced through the passions and memories of one remarkable old woman Roushana Maitland has known great fame and great sorrow throughout her long life. As a world-renowned mus...

• Jun-2013
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Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History: A pastel-hued yet chilling alternate vision of England, The Summer Isles views the nightmare that the country has become since Germany’s victory in the Great War, throu...

• Jun-2013
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Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History: Nineteen-forties Hollywood is dazzlingly transformed and recreated in this alternate history fantasy noir about former screen actor-turned-private eye Clark Gable who investigates a deadly conspirac...

• May-2018
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This Locus Award finalist vampire novel is “by turns western adventure, Renaissance horror, political intrigue, dysfunctional family drama, and more” (Locus).In the aftermath of the last great battle of the American Civil War, a disillusioned Uni...

• May-2019
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“MacLeod is a brilliant writer.”  -- Tim Powers

“Ian MacLeod writes like an angel. He strings together ideally chosen words into sentences that are variously lush, sparse, subtle, bold, joyous, mournful, comic and tragic.”  -- Pa...

• May-2019
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“MacLeod is a brilliant writer.”  -- Tim Powers “Ian MacLeod writes like an angel. He strings together ideally chosen words into sentences that are variously lush, sparse, subtle, bold, joyous, mournful, comic and tragic.”  -- Paul ...

• Feb-2022
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Ian R. Macleod's fantasy short story "The Chronologist" is a Tor.com Original A boy, desperate to escape the drudgery of life in his small town, gets caught up in the machinations of a traveling time keeper, and slowly watches his town and his life u...

• May-2023
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From furthest reaches of deep space in The Memory Artist to the jungles of Yucatan in Lamagica, and from the strange suburbia of Stuff to a Vatican where a dying pope awaits deliverance in Sin Eater, the worlds mapped out by these stories range far a...