“He’s hit the main vein of conversation about locks on artificial intelligence and living in simulations and exoplanetary exploitation and drone warfare and wraps it all into a remarkably human, funny, and smartly designed yarn. It is, in fact, a king-hell commercial entertainment.”
—Warren Ellis
“MacLeod does many astonishing things here. He creates viable, believable multiplex interactions among so many different sets of characters, human and robot.… He shows a keen hand with action sequences.”
—Locus
“Dissidence is the novel that’s direct yet still brims with ideas, politics and memorable characters, and … keeps things moving with the pace of an airport thriller.… MacLeod’s most entertaining novel to date.”
—SFX
“[The Corporation Wars] is a tasty broth of ideas taking in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of law and disquisitions on military ethics.”
—The Herald (Glasgow)
“Fantastic fights and deep conspiracies and moral dilemmas and strange new worlds, both virtual and real (maybe). MacLeod’s great skill—as in works like The Execution Chanel, Newton’s Wake, The Night Sessions, and Intrusion—is to marry propulsive plot to philosophical speculation.”—
The Scotsman