Star Fraction Author:Ken MacLeod The award-winning novel that launched Ken MacLeods SF career, in softcover with a new introduction written especially for the American readerBritain in the 21st century is a Balkanized mess with an absentee-landlord Hanoverian royal family, neighborhoods that pursue their own independent foreign policies, and US/UN technology cops with everyone ... more »in their sights. Moh Kohn is a security mercenar unaware that he holds the key to information which could change the world. Janis Taine is a scientist who needs Mohs help hiding from the US/UN. Jordan Brown is a teenaged refugee from an enclave of religious fundamentalists. And a rogue computer program is guiding events to a breathtaking conclusion, with strange and wonderful implications for the human future.« less