Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod was born in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, and currently lives in South Queensferry near Edinburgh. His novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, or extreme economic libertarianism, in SF contents, and include The Star Fraction (1995), The Stone Canal (1996) and Learning the World (2005), all of which won the Prometheus Award in the respective years.