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''Cosmonaut Keep'' is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2000. It is the first book in the Engines of Light Trilogy, a 2001 nominee for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a 2002
Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...
Nominee for best novel.http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Hugo2002.html
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Reception

'' Publishers Weekly'' 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, who are nicknamed the ''Wobblies''. The idea of the Webblies formed a central part of a later novel '' For the Win'' by Cory Doctorow, 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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