Spanning centuries and light years, acclaimed author Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep interweaves two tales of love, intrigue, and courage. One is the story of Matt Cairns, a young outlaw programmer struggling to survive in a politically turbulent near-future Europe. The other tells of his descendant, Gregor Cairns, who has made a home for himself on a distant and exotic alien world many centuries later. Cosmonaut Keep is contemporary science fiction at its highest level, an epic of daring and passionate individuals seeking a place for themselves and their dreams in a vast and enigmatic universe.