• The Fall Revolution 4

  • The Sky Road
  • By: Ken Macleod
  • Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
  • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (21 ratings)

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The Fall Revolution 4

By: Ken Macleod
Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
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Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past. A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced the end of a different space age--her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenceless against the Sino-Soviet Union. As Myra appealed to the crumbling West for help, she found history turning on her own strange past--and on the terrible decisions she faces now. The Sky Road is a fireworks display, a bravura performance, and the most amazing novel yet by one of the powerful new voices in science fiction.

©2012 Ken Macleod (P)2012 Audible Ltd

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Ken Macleod’s The Sky Road is the fourth installment in his Fall Revolution series. This tale takes place during two time periods. The first concerns events surrounding the Fall Revolution that eventually leads to Earth’s post-industrial period. The second period is far in the future (24th century) when humanity is slowly beginning to reach for the stars again. Two individuals, one involved with the space project and a historian explore the details of events described in the other time period and attempt to reconcile the party line with unearthed information.

Macleod appears to have cobbled together bits and pieces that may have originally been the basis for two separate independent, but related tales into one story that doesn’t hold together well. The actions and events around the time of the fall revolution are interesting storytelling, but in the end, quite mundane, while the later time period suffers from entrenched dogma about irrelevant history.

The narration is quite good with excellent character distinction. Close attention is necessary to catch the period shifts.

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