''The Restoration Game'' is a 2010 science fiction/

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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 ...

. The novel's main character and narrator, Lucy Stone, a computer programmer, grew up in the fictional Caucasian Soviet republic of Krassnia and in 2008 works for a videogame company in Edinburgh. After Stone's mother, who once worked for the CIA, commissions her company to create an

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based on Krassnian mythology, Stone becomes entangled in the region's politics and her own family history. The story is set in the year 2008. MacLeod has said that he originally intended to set it in the near future, but the

2008 South Ossetia war The 2008 Russo-Georgian WarThe war is known by a variety of other names, including Five-Day War, August War and Russian invasion of Georgia. was a war between Georgia, on one side, and Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of Sou ...

made this impossible. Reviews of the novel have generally been positive. ''Financial Times'' reviewer James Lovegrove writes that "Where his novel excels is in its depiction of the machinations used both by governments and families to coerce others into doing their bidding, and in its inquiry into the nature of reality." The novel was nominated for the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Restoration Game Novels by Ken MacLeod 2010 British novels 2010 science fiction novels Fiction set in 2008 Novels set in fictional countries Libertarian science fiction books British science fiction novels Orbit Books books

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