| Cosmonaut Keep | |
| Author: | Ken MacLeod |
| Cover Artist: | Lee Gibbons |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Engines of Light Trilogy |
| Genre: | Science fiction |
| Publisher: | Orbit Books |
| Pub Date: | 2003 (first edition) |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 308 p. |
| Isbn: | 1857239865 |
| Oclc: | 53096139 |
| Followed By: | Dark Light |
Cosmonaut Keep is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2000.It is the first book in the Engines of Light Trilogy, a 2001 nominee for the Arthur C. Clarke Award,[1] and a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for best novel.[2] [3]
Publishers Weekly had mostly praise for the novel saying:
In Cosmonaut Keep, MacLeod makes fleeting reference to a future programmers' union called the "Information Workers of the World Wide Web", or the Webblies, a reference to the Industrial Workers of the World, who are nicknamed the Wobblies. The idea of the Webblies formed a central part of a later novel For the Win by Cory Doctorow, where it is given much greater prominence. MacLeod is acknowledged by Doctorow as coining the terms.[4]