Cosmonaut Keep
{{Short description|2000 novel by Ken MacLeod}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Cosmonaut Keep
| image = File:CosmonautKeep.jpg
| caption = First ed. cover
| author = Ken MacLeod
| cover_artist = Lee Gibbons
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| series = Engines of Light Trilogy
| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = Orbit Books
| pub_date = 2003 (first edition)
| media_type = Print
| pages = 308 p.
| isbn = 1857239865
| oclc = 53096139
| followed_by = Dark Light
}}
Cosmonaut Keep is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2000.
It is the first book in the Engines of Light Trilogy, a 2001 nominee for the Arthur C. Clarke Award,{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2001
| title = 2001 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| accessdate=2009-07-20
}} and a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for best novel.[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo2002.html http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo2002.html] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112195713/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo2002.html |date=January 12, 2008 }}.{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2002
| title = 2002 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| accessdate=2009-07-20
}}
Reception
Publishers Weekly had mostly praise for the novel saying:
{{blockquote|text=MacLeod handles the strands of the plot deftly, weaving one beautifully realized world with the other and highlighting the parallels between the two. Rarely does a book demand so much of the reader and then deliver. Densely written with a remarkable depth of cultural texture, though occasionally confusing in its politics (which includes socialists, "Webblies" and libertarian capitalists), MacLeod's story is spoiled only by the false notes of two parallel love interests.{{cite magazine|last=Zaleski|first=Jeff|author2=Peter Cannon |title=Cosmonaut Keep|date=April 9, 2001 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780765300324 |magazine=Publishers Weekly|volume= 248|issue= 15|pages=55|issn=0000-0019}}}}
Reference in other work
In Cosmonaut Keep, MacLeod makes fleeting reference to a future programmers' union called the "Information Workers of the World Wide Web", or the Webblies, a reference to the Industrial Workers of the World, who are nicknamed the Wobblies. The idea of the Webblies formed a central part of a later novel For the Win by Cory Doctorow, where it is given much greater prominence. MacLeod is acknowledged by Doctorow as coining the terms.{{cite book | title=For the Win | author=Cory Doctorow | year=2010 | url=http://craphound.com/ftw/Cory_Doctorow_-_For_the_Win.htm | publisher=HarperVoyager | isbn=978-0-00-735201-2}} MacLeod is thanked in the Acknowledments section: "Many thanks to Ken Macleod for letting me use IWWWW and 'Webbly.'"
References
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External links
- {{isfdb title|id=21047}}
- [http://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=63 Cosmonaut Keep] at Worlds Without End
Category:2000 science fiction novels
Category:Novels by Ken MacLeod
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