2001 and All That
Scottish SF author Ken MacLeod argues that much history, including the End of it, has happened since 2001, and he thinks it is rather important that they should not be remembered.
Adolf Hitler: Man or Myth?
Article by Ken Macleod on why the UK thinks Hitler was fiction but Conan the Barbarian was real.
Conspiracy in the Shadow of Hierarchy
MacLeod on conspiracy theories, such as who shot JFK.
Does Science Fiction Have to be About the Present?
Ken MacLeod writes about his theory that SF can be more illuminating about the time of its writing than about that of its imagined future.
Eight Days in Zagreb
Ken Macleod on visiting Croatia as a guest of the Sferakon convention.
Forty Whacks
Ken Macleod on visiting Spain for Stitch and Split: Selves and Territories in Science Fiction, in Seville, sponsored by the Universidad Internacional de Andalucia.
Libertarianism, the Loony Left and the Secrets of
[PDF] An essay on MacLeod's view of socialism, anarchism and libertarian influences in science fiction.
Looking Upward
Scots SF author Ken MacLeod muses on all our imagined societies of common ownership, and wonders if poor old human nature just keeps on getting in the way of utopia.
The Scottish Revolution
MacLeod ponders the twists and turns of fate that made capitalist development finally and fully possible in Scotland and irreversible in Britain as a whole.