Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod
Kenneth Macrae "Ken" MacLeodis a Scottish science fiction writer...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 August 1954
believe mythology ufo
I don't believe in the UFO mythology but I find it fascinating. Episodically, I find it fascinating.
both emergency police services talk towards
We've been working towards this for a long time, both provincially and nationally, so that emergency services such as police can talk with the RCMP and other emergency services. The way it was before, we were isolated,
real engineering ideas
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
lying father believe
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
thinking world bigs
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.
leaving fiction strange
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
responsibility ideas justice
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
mind problem changing-your-mind
Change the problem by changing your mind.
falling-in-love personality loved-ones
Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.
simple wings philosopher
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.
astronomy superstitious
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.
writing interesting people
Anyway...I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it.
two long world
It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.
thinking southern way
Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.