Review: The Star Fraction

Title: The Star Fraction
Author: Ken MacLeod
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Publisher: Tor
Copyright: 1995
ISBN: 0765301563
Pages: 320
Keywords: speculative fiction
Reading period: 19–26 April, 2009
A few decades hence, Britain has devolved into balkanized ministates. A Trotskyite, space-loving mercenary inadvertently awakens an AI and sparks the revolution. The plot is unsummarizable, but it’s entertaining and complex, mixing action, political theory, cyberpunk, and romance.