The Restoration Game
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| Author | Ken MacLeod |
|---|---|
| Genre | science fiction/techno-thriller novel |
| Publisher | Orbit Books |
Publication date | 2010 |
The Restoration Game is a 2010 science fiction/techno-thriller novel by Ken MacLeod.
The novel's main character and narrator, Lucy Stone, a computer programmer, grew up in the fictional Caucasian Soviet republic of Krassnia and in 2008 works for a videogame company in Edinburgh.[1] After Stone's mother, who once worked for the CIA, commissions her company to create an MMORPG based on Krassnian mythology, Stone becomes entangled in the region's politics and her own family history.[1][2]
The story is set in the year 2008.[3] MacLeod has said that he originally intended to set it in the near future, but the 2008 South Ossetia war made this impossible.[4][5]
Reviews of the novel have generally been positive.[1][2][3][6][7][8] Financial Times reviewer James Lovegrove writes that "Where his novel excels is in its depiction of the machinations used both by governments and families to coerce others into doing their bidding, and in its inquiry into the nature of reality."[1]
The novel was nominated for the Prometheus Award.[9]
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Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d Lovegrove, James (19 July 2010). "The Restoration Game". Financial Times.
- ^ a b Wright, Jonathan. "The Restoration Game". BBC Focus.
- ^ a b Wright, Jonathan (2 July 2010). "The Restoration Game – Ken MacLeod". SFX.
- ^ "The Early Days of a Better Nation".
- ^ "SFcrowsnest - where do you want to go?".
- ^ Walker, Jesse (October 2010). "Briefly Noted: It's All in the Game". Reason.
- ^ "Book reviews: New Model Army | Kraken | The Resoration [sic] Game - Scotland on Sunday". scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011.
- ^ Brown, Eric (13 March 2010). "Science fiction & fantasy roundup". The Guardian. London.
- ^ Libertarian Futurist Society. "PROMETHEUS AWARD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED". Retrieved 10 July 2012.
External links[edit]
- The Restoration Game title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database