Learning the World

Learning the World:
A Scientific Romance
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
AuthorKen MacLeod
Cover artistLee Gibbons
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherOrbit
Publication date
2005
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages303
ISBN1-84149-343-0 (hardcover),
ISBN 1-84149-344-9 (paperback)
OCLC59878405

Learning the World is a science fiction novel by British writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2005. It won the 2006 Prometheus Award, was nominated for the Hugo, Locus, Clarke, and Campbell Awards that same year, and received a BSFA nomination in 2005. Since the book's publication MacLeod has written two short stories set in the same universe, "Lighting Out" and "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?".