''Engine City'' is a

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

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 2002. It is the third novel 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, ...

. The novel follows on from '' Dark Light'' and is also set in the "Second Sphere", primarily in the city of Nova Babylonia, the plot centering on the arrival of humans from the edge of the sphere offering immortality and warning of an impending alien invasion.

Literary significance and reception

The ''

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'' review for the novel said:

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