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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
commonwealth’s 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 man’s
hand is against him; and take this government at the best, it is a diseased government, and
the very city Babylon, full of confusion.
—Gerard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1651)

Contents
• prologue: states of mind

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

• 2 hardy man

• 3 rtfm

• 4 the modern prince

• 5 tidal race

• 6 bright star cultures

• 7 the modern regime

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

• 9 the hanging libraries

• 10 high strangeness incidents
• 11 lithomancer

• 12 rocket science

• 13 blood of spiders

• 14 the new moon’s arms

• coda: state of play