Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod
Addressing the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow, August 2005
BornKenneth Macrae MacLeod
(1954-08-02) 2 August 1954
Stornoway, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow (BS)
GenreScience fiction
Notable awardsBSFA Award, Prometheus Award
Children2
Website
kenmacleod.blogspot.com

Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer. His novels The Sky Road and The Night Sessions won the BSFA Award. MacLeod's novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell Memorial awards for best novel on multiple occasions. In 2024 MacLeod was one of the Guests of Honour at the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow.

A techno-utopianist, MacLeod's work makes frequent use of libertarian socialist themes; he is a three-time winner of the libertarian Prometheus Award. He sits on the advisory board of the Edinburgh Science Festival.