''Cosmonaut Keep'' is a

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novel by Scottish writer

Ken MacLeod 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, an ...

, published in 2000. It is the first book in the

Engines of Light Trilogy 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 Award, Arthur C. Clarke, ...

, a 2001 nominee for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for best novel.http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo2002.html
.

Reception

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'' had mostly praise for the novel saying:

Reference in other work

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 The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in Chicago in 1905. The origin of the nickname "Wobblies" is uncertain. IWW ideology combines general ...

, who are nicknamed the ''Wobblies''. The idea of the Webblies formed a central part of a later novel ''

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'' by

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, where it is given much greater prominence. MacLeod is acknowledged by Doctorow as coining the terms. MacLeod is thanked in the Acknowledments section: "Many thanks to Ken Macleod for letting me use IWWWW and 'Webbly.'"

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