What happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over?Ī young American in Varanas learns the true meaning of “nation building” in the early days of a new country.Ī genetically improved “Brahmin”child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity.Cyberabad Days returns to the India of 2047 as featured in Ian McDonald's acclaimed novel River of Gods.
The Djinn’s Wife (Hugo for best novelette and BSFA short-fiction winner of 2007)Ī minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence, but is it a marriage of heaven and hell?įeuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process.In near future Nepal, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood. The Little Goddess (Hugo nominee for best novella of 2006).As with everything Ian McDonald does, it is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas.Ĭyberabad Days is a collection of eight stories, one Hugo nominee and one Hugo winner among them, as well as a twenty-five thousand word original novella.
Clarke Award, and winning the BSFA Award, the rich world of the novel has inspired McDonald to revisit its milieu in a series of short stories, all set in the world of River of Gods.Ĭyberabad Days is a triumphant return to the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. Nominated for the Hugo Award and the Arthur C. It revolutionized SF for a new generation by taking a perspective that was not European or American. Ian McDonald’s River of Gods - called a “masterpiece” by Asimov’s Science Fiction and praised by the Washington Post as “a major achievement from a writer who is becoming one of the best SF novelists of our time” - painted a vivid picture of a near future India, 100 years after independence.
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