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Ian R. MacLeod

イアン・R・マクラウド

Ian R. MacLeod

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1956-01-01 （Solihull, near Birmingham, England）
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Residence History
Solihull (near Birmingham), England

Career

Occupations
science fiction author, fantasy author, novelist
Active Years
1990-

Awards

Locus Award (Best First Novel)
1998
Work: The Great Wheel
Category: Best First Novel
Organization: Locus
Result: winner
Sidewise Award
1999
Work: The Summer Isles (short/novella version)
Category: Best Short-Form Alternate History
Organization: Sidewise Awards Committee
Result: winner
World Fantasy Award (Short Fiction)
1999
Work: The Summer Isles
Category: Short Fiction
Organization: World Fantasy Awards
Result: winner
World Fantasy Award (Short Fiction)
2000
Work: The Chop Girl
Category: Short Fiction
Organization: World Fantasy Awards
Result: winner
Sidewise Award
2006
Work: The Summer Isles (novel / long version)
Category: Best Long-Form Alternate History
Organization: Sidewise Awards Committee
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Great Wheel

1997 novel (science fiction / fantasy)

MacLeod's debut novel. A distinctive work with a 19th-century flavored setting and speculative elements.

industrial and social changepower and repression

The Light Ages

2003 alternate-history fantasy

Set in a parallel 19th-century England where 'aether' — a psychically controlled substance — inhibits technological progress, producing a hardened society.

alternate historyscience vs. mysticismsocial ossification

The House of Storms

2005 alternate-history fantasy

One of the works sharing the world of The Light Ages, set in a 19th-century-flavored parallel England.

power structurestechnology and spirituality

The Summer Isles

1998 novella / alternate history

Originally written as a novel but published in a truncated novella/short form. An alternate-history tale imagining Britain defeated in WWI and developing its own fascism in the 1930s.

alternate historyrise of fascismstate vs individual
Translations
  • The Summer Isles (Japanese translation by Hisashi Asakura, 2008)

Song of Time

novel

Bibliography

  • The Great Wheel
  • The Light Ages
  • The House of Storms
  • The Summer Isles
  • Song of Time
  • Breathmoss and Other Exhalations (short fiction collection)

Translations of Works

  • The Summer Isles (Japanese translation by Hisashi Asakura, 2008)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
lush, lyrical proseVictorian-flavored speculative worldbuilding
Recurring Motifs
alternate historymemory and timesocial ossification

Legacy

Ian R. MacLeod is a British SF and fantasy writer known for blending alternate history with lyrical, fantastical elements. He has received multiple international awards for his short and long fiction.

Trivia

  • A rare example where different versions of the same story/novel won the Sidewise Award.
  • Originally studied law and worked as a civil servant before becoming a freelance writer in the early 1990s.