Beyond the Light Horizon

The biggest question about the final book in a trilogy is, will it stick the landing? So when you get three quarters of the way through the book and have to double check if it actually is a trilogy, well that could be problem. Luckily MacLeod does a magic trick in his last fifty pages and allows his......more

I finished Ken Macleod's Beyond the Light Horizon, the concluding book in his Lightspeed space opera trilogy. I thought that it was a good conclusion to the series. One characteristic of Macleod's books is that they tend to be relatively short, at least compared to many of his contemporaries. I thin......more

2.7 stars. Again, plenty of ideas and some semblance of a story, but I can't recall a single character - they're all so bland. I think Ken MacLeod's writing just isn't for me.......more

I'm grateful to the publisher for giving me access to an advance e-copy of Beyond the Light Horizon to consider for review. In a complex and satisfying conclusion to Macleod's Lightspeed trilogy, we see the consequences for Earth politics and development of the discovery of faster-than-light travel,......more

This was... odd. I am not going to say Ken is losing his touch. I think he may be maturing more as a novelist. I also suspect that commercial pressures have come into play here. His previous trilogy, the Corporation Wars, and this one, could both have been one big book, and in _Lightspeed_ I think th......more