A future programmers union is called "Information Workers of the World Wide Web", or the Webblies, a reference to the Industrial Workers of the World, who are nicknamed the Wobblies. For example, his chapter titles such as "Trusted Third Parties" or "Revolutionary Platform" usually have double (or multiple) meanings. He is known for his constant in-joking and punning on the intersection between socialist ideologies and computer programming, as well as other fields. MacLeod's general outlook can be best described as techno-utopian socialist, though unlike a majority of techno-utopians, he has expressed great scepticism over the possibility and especially over the desirability of strong AI. Technical themes encompass singularities, divergent human cultural evolution, and post-human cyborg- resurrection. His science fiction novels often explore socialist, communist, and anarchist political ideas, especially Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism (or extreme economic libertarianism). McAuley, Alastair Reynolds, Adam Roberts, Charles Stross, Richard Morgan, and Liz Williams.
His contemporaries include Neal Asher, Stephen Baxter, Iain M. He is part of a group of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. MacLeod is opposed to Scottish independence. He lived in South Queensferry near Edinburgh before moving to Gourock, on the Firth of Clyde, in June 2017. He was a Trotskyist activist in the 1970s and early 1980s and is married and has two children. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Scotland on 2 August 1954. He sits on the advisory board of the Edinburgh Science Festival. Prior to becoming a novelist, MacLeod studied biology and worked as a computer programmer. A techno-utopianist, MacLeod's work makes frequent use of libertarian socialist themes he is a three-time winner of the libertarian Prometheus Award. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell Memorial awards for best novel on multiple occasions. MacLeod's novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. His novels The Sky Road and The Night Sessions won the BSFA Award.
Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954 in Steòrnabhagh) is a Scottish science fiction writer. Ken and Carol MacLeod at Boskone 43, 2006.
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