The Star Fraction: Book One: The Fall Revolution Series - Tapa dura

Britain in the 21st century is a Balkanized mess with an absentee-landlord Hanoverian royal family, and the US/UN acts as a repressive global police force. Moh Kohn is unaware that he holds the key to information which could change the world. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.

Ken MacLeod graduated with a BSc from Glasgow University in 1976. Following research at Brunel University, he worked in a variety of manual and clerical jobs whilst completing an MPhil thesis. He previously worked as a computer analyst/programmer in Edinburgh, but is now a full-time writer. He is the author of twelve previous novels, five of which have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and two which have won the BSFA Award. Ken MacLeod is married with two grown-up children and lives in West Lothian.