Newton鈥檚 Wake by Ken MacLeod, Orbit, 拢17.99, ISBN 1841491756 Reviewed by Elizabeth Sourbut
ON a distant planet Lucinda Carlyle, scion of a Glaswegian family of gangsters, has awakened a nest of sentient war machines. Allegiances shift as the Carlyles compete with Zen warriors, communists and American farmers for control of a skein of interstellar wormholes. In this space opera, Ken MacLeod is as inventive, witty and politically astute as ever.