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Engine City
Ken MacLeod
To Carol, with love
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to Carol, Sharon, and Michael, as always; to Andrew Greig for listening about
light-years; and to Farah Mendlesohn for reading and commenting on the first draft.
There is no middle path between these two, for a man must either be a free and true
commonwealthтАЩs man, or a monarchical tyrannical royalist.
Kingly government governs the earth by that cheating art of buying and selling, and
thereby becomes a man of contention, his hand is against every man, and every manтАЩs
hand is against him; and take this government at the best, it is a diseased government, and
the very city Babylon, full of confusion.
тАФGerard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1651)

Contents
тАв prologue: states of mind

тАв part one: the very city babylon
тАв 1 the advancement of learning

тАв 2 hardy man

тАв 3 rtfm

тАв 4 the modern prince

тАв 5 tidal race

тАв 6 bright star cultures

тАв 7 the modern regime

тАв part two: the human as alien
тАв 8 new earth (political)

тАв 9 the hanging libraries

тАв 10 high strangeness incidents
тАв 11 lithomancer

тАв 12 rocket science

тАв 13 blood of spiders

тАв 14 the new moonтАЩs arms

тАв coda: state of play