title: The Human Front (Outspoken Authors)
author:  Ken MacLeod 
description: Starred Review. Scottish author MacLeod bolsters his tight, brilliant 2001 alternate-history novella with two supporting essays and a lengthy interview, combining revolutionary politics, flying-saucer lore, and family dynamics in a slender but potent volume. The eponymous novella takes up the bulk of the book, tracing the life of Scottish resistance fighter John Matheson as he's gradually radicalized. In his world, Stalin is gunned down by American troops and flying saucers serve as Allied bombers. Matheson's revolutionary career takes a turn for the strange when he shoots a saucer down, taking its pilot prisoner and opening the door to a far deeper mystery. The essaysone on the novella's setting and one on the landscape of fictionlend depth and context to what is already an excellent tale, one that readers should be glad to see made readily available in the United States. (Aug.)
zlib_text: “One of SF s hottest new authors.” —Locus
  HE STUNNING CONCLUSION TO THE ENGINES OF LIGHT
  
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  Pr a ise f o r  Ke n  Ma c Le o d
  “Distinctive, politically challenging, both tantalizing and 
  satisfying.” 
  —Kirkus Reviews on Cosmonaut Keep
  “Rarely does a book demand so much of the reader—and 
  then deliver.” 
  —Publishers Weekly on Cosmonaut Keep
  “Science fiction’s freshest new writer . . . MacLeod is a 
  fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who man­
  ages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them 
  down.” 
  —Salon
  “Ken MacLeod’s novels are fast, funny and sophisticated. 
  There can never be enough books like these.”
  —Kim Stanley Robinson
  “Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution.” 
  —Asimov’s SF
  “MacLeod’s project is one of the most intellectually ambi­
  tious—and compulsively readable—in recent SF. Nor is the 
  first-rate storytelling just sugar-coating on the pill; the sto­
  ries and the characters that inhabit them give the play of 
  ideas a subtlety that