{"id":2246,"date":"2010-06-12T02:37:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T07:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/06\/12\/the-night-sessions-ken-macleod\/"},"modified":"2010-06-12T02:37:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T07:37:48","slug":"the-night-sessions-ken-macleod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/06\/12\/the-night-sessions-ken-macleod\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Sessions – Ken MacLeod"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Night Sessions
\nKen MacLeod
\n324 pages
\npublished in 2008
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\nIt was only when Ken ran a blurb on his blog for a promotion event for his new novel<\/a>, that I realised that I hadn’t read his previous one The Night Sessions<\/cite> yet. So when my sweetie was running an Amazon order anyway and asked me what I wanted as a gift, this is what I asked for. Glad I did too, as it is of the usual high quality I expect from Ken.\n<\/p>\n

\nYou could call The Night Sessions<\/cite> a thematic sequel to The Execution Channel<\/a><\/cite>. That novel took place at the height of a decades long extension of the War Against Terror, while this takes place some decades after the end of what’s now called the Faith Wars in the US\/UK, the Oil Wars anywhere else. Ended in a defeat for the coalition of the willing, it led to serious political repercussions in the west: the UK has disintegrated, the US is undergoing a second civil war (something Ken has used before) and in Scotland, as elsewhere religion is well and truly disestablished. There’s not just a separation of church and state, but an official constitutional police of no cognisance: the state doesn’t recognise priests, vicars, bishops, mullars or other religious offices, not even on the level of acknowledging their titles. It’s a world that fits in with Ken’s current hardline secularist attitude, as witnessed by his blog.\n<\/p>\n

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