Book description
The Hard Rapture took Earth's best minds away. Now the rest are about
to find out where they went ...
Centuries ago, space settlers and soldiers fled to the stars from
the sentient AI war machines that engulfed Earth. They colonised
Eurydice, a planet whose rocks contain traces of its own war machines
- some of which still guard a vast, enigmatic artifact on a remote
tundra.
When an expedition raids this strange artifact, the Eurydiceans
discover that they weren't the last survivors of humanity after all.
Their leisured lifestyle is about to be disrupted by new arrivals for
whom Eurydice is a prize worth fighting over.
And the long-dormant war machines are awakening ...
Newton's Wake is a stunning stand-alone space opera, charting the
struggle for human survival in a universe dominated by post-human
intelligence.
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has
worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full time.
