The Star Fraction

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these novels are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

FRACTIONS: THE FIRST HALF OF THE FALL REVOLUTION

Copyright © 2008 by Ken MacLeod

The Star Fraction copyright © 1995 by Ken MacLeod

The Stone Canal copyright © 1996 by Ken MacLeod

All rights reserved.

An Orb Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dataa

MacLeod, Ken.

[Star fraction]

Fractions / Ken MacLeod.—1st trade pbk. ed.

p. cm.—(Fall revolution series)

“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”

ISBN: 978-1-4299-6552-1

1. Life on other planets—Fiction. 2. Computer programs—Fiction. I. MacLeod, Ken Stone canal. II. Title.

PR6063.A2515S734 2008

823'.914—dc22

2008034635