It was written as a novel, which however could not sell MacLeod published the cut version, with the full-length version only being published in a limited edition in 2005. The narrator is a closeted homosexual Oxford historian who had known the leader in youth. It is an alternate history where Britain, having been defeated in the World War I, develops its own form of fascism in 1930s. MacLeod's novella The Summer Isles (Asimov's Science Fiction Oct/Nov 1998) won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for and the World Fantasy Award. MacLeod's debut novel, The Great Wheel, was published in 1997, and won the Locus Award for Best First novel. He is the author of the novels The Light Ages and The House of Storms, which are set in an alternate universe nineteenth century England, where aether, a substance that can be controlled by the mind, has ossified English society into guilds and has retarded technological progress. He studied law and worked as a civil servant before going freelance in early 1990es soon after he started publishing stories, attracting critical praise and awards nominations. MacLeod (born 1956) is a British science fiction and fantasy writer.
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