Scottish Science Fiction Author not to be confused with Ken Bitsko Mac Leod.
Author of:
The Fall Revolution tetralogy
The Star Fraction [ISBN 0765301563]
The Stone Canal [ISBN 0812568648]
The Cassini Division [ISBN 0812568583]
The Sky Road [ISBN 0812577590]
The Engines of Light trilogy
Cosmonaut Keep [ISBN 0765340739]
Dark Light [ISBN 0765344963]
Engine City [ISBN 076530502X]
Newton's Wake [ISBN 0765305038]
His books use science fiction partially as a forum to explore political ideas. The Star Fraction has some emphasis on communism, within the framework of a society that has some similarities to that of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. The Stone Canal explores anarchism/Anarcho Capitalism.
It's not all dead serious. As a fillip, Mr. MacLeod also lightly salts his novels with subtle in-jokes.
The Stone Canal has a well-written passage portraying a surprising use of Boot Strapping.
The Stone Canal may have been inspired in part by David Friedman's 1971 The Machinery of Freedom [ISBN 0812690699], a libertarian guide to Anarcho Capitalism. Note the similarities: one of the main characters of The Stone Canal is David Reed (who is a major proponent of Anarcho Capitalism), and the title of the first part of the novel is "The Machinery of Freedom". Mr. Friedman is also reputed to be a SF fan.
If you are referring to David Director Friedman, he is indeed an SF fan, among other things. Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Friedman en.wikipedia.org
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