They also liked MacLeod, who visited us at Dalkeith House, where the UW program is housed, and gave a talk on his work carefully calibrated, I believe, to their level of sophistication. I assigned it to my students who, despite devoting most of their time in Edinburgh to the bar scene and touring, actually seemed to enjoy the novel as well, though, being typical American college kids, they found most of the book's political content intensely incomprehensible. at the time was his third novel, The Cassini Division, which I read and liked. The only work by MacLeod readily available in the U. Banks I had come up empty so I was very grateful for the recommendation. Although the course enrolled American students, it was supposed to have a Scottish orientation and, after Robert Louis Stevenson, Alasdair Gray, and Iain M. If memory serves it was Farah Mendlesohn, one of the editors of the book I'm reviewing here, who suggested him. from Pathway Book Services, 1-80 first discovered Ken MacLeod's fiction in early 2000 when I was working on the syllabus for a science fiction course I'd been asked to teach as part of the University of Wisconsin in Scotland program that fall. Foundation Studies in Science Fiction, 3. Reading, UK: The Science Fiction Foundation, 2003.
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