Literary recommendations: Ken MacLeod

[Justin Schwartz]

OK, you put The Corrections on my list. At a lower level, but also fun, my 
train reading these days has been the sci fi novels of Ken MacLeod, a Scot 
post-Trot who is trying to come to terms with a post-1991 world by positing 
various futures in which 4th Internationslists play a large role: running 
Khazakstan, or a snippet of it (The Sky Road--gives Against the Current a 
mention!), establishing neo-Miseian right wing libertarian utopias with 
machine slaves (The Stone Canal) after falling from their socialist faith, 
creating a nano-tech based anarchist socialist utopia on Earth while 
fighting off the uebermenschen posthimans who have colonized Jupiter (the 
Cassini Division), etc. Writes well. Hates, I mean HATES, Greens. Is a bit 
clunky with feminist issues. Many here will like him a lot. Give him a go, 
How can we hate books with epigraphs from Engels and Dietzgen? jks


>From: "Peter K." <peterk at enteract.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: ratting on profs
>Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:23:46 -0500
>>Speaking of dysfunctional, stifling families though, anyone read
>_The Corrections_ by Jonathan Franzen? The paperback's out
>and I'm a little ways into it. Pretty good so far. At one point a young,

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