Ian McDonald

São Paulo, 2032: Una ciudad con corazón de neón, de infinidad de millones de habitantes, de extraordinaria riqueza y extrema pobreza. Una ciudad vigilada, donde un ladrón de favela puede verse atrapa

São Paulo, 2032: Una ciudad con corazón de neón, de infinidad de millones de habitantes, de extraordinaria riqueza y extrema pobreza. Una ciudad vigilada, donde un ladrón de favela puede verse atrapa

The world: ''Cyberabad'' is 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 out-number females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Cyberabad is a collection of 7 stories: The Little Goddess. Hugo nominee Best Novella 2006. In near future Nepal, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood. The Djinn''s Wife. Hugo nominee and BSFA short fiction winner 2007 A minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence but is it a marriage of heaven and hell? The Dust Assassin. Feuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process. Jasbir and Sujay go Shaadi. Love and marriage should be plain-sailing when your matchmaker is a soap-star artificial intelligence Sanjeev and Robotwallah. What happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over? Kyle meets the River. A young American in Varanas learns the true meaning of ''nation building'' in the early days of a new country. Vishnu at the Cat Circus. A genetically improved ''Brahmin'' child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity.

August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India . . . On the eve of Mother India''s hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists to computer-generated soap stars, River of Gods shows a civilization in flux - a river of gods. RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes. This is an SF novel that blew apart the narrow anglo and US-centric concerns of the genre and ushered in a new global consciousness for the genre.

August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India...In the mid twenty-first century, Mother India is all the things she is now - ancient and vibrant, poor yet staggeringly rich. Diverse, violent, beautiful and terrible, thrilling and bewildering. A nation choked with peoples and cultures, riven with almost seismic contrasts and contradictions. Nearly two billion humans crowd the subcontinent and her seething cities - the cyberabads - where timeless culture and the highest of high-technologies meet to spawn new societies, and - possibly - new sentient species. RIVER OF GODS is a book as big and brawling as its subject. Its magnificently diverse array of characters - from genetically enhanced ''Brahmins'' to body-part runners, American scientists to ''Dharma-cops'' (government Artificial Intelligence assassins) - are drawn in interwoven stories towards a cosmic-scale conclusion that will forever change the way we understand ourselves, life, and the universe we inhabit.

Ian McDonald es un autor consolidado en el Reino Unido. Sus obras, que le han valido el aplauso de la crítica y el reconocimiento de los aficionados con las ventas, abordan los principales temas de nuestro tiempo con una marcada preocupacion por los aspectos sociales.El 15 de agosto de 2047, cuando se cumplen cien años del nacimiento de la India, diez extraños ven como sus vidas se cruzan. Un policia, un consejero del Gobierno, un humorista, un actor, un delincuente callejero, un periodista, un investigador y un cientifico estadounidense son algunos de los elegidos que, durante las siguientes semanas, tendran en sus manos el poder de decidir el destino de un pais de mil quinientos millones de personas que veneran a nueve millones de dioses diferentes.

Everett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from Charlotte Villiers but at a terrible price. His father is lost, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All World, and Everett and the crew of the airship Everness have taken a wild Heisenberg Jump to a frozen earth far beyond the Plenitude of Known Worlds, he plans to rescue his family.Its deadly chase from the frozen wastes of iceball earth; to Earth 4 (like ours, except that the alien Thryn Sentiency occupied the moon in 1964); to the dead London of the forbidden plane of Earth 1, where the remnants of humanity battle a terrifying nanotechnology run wild. Everett has the love and support of Sen, Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, and the rest of the crew of Everness, but will that be enough when your deadliest enemy isnt the Order or the world-devouring nanotech Nahnits yourself. Because the villainous Charlotte Villiers is always one step ahead.Praise for Be My Enemy"Absolutely triumphant sequel tremendous action scenes, cunning escapes, genius attacks on the ways that multidimensional travel might be weaponized, horrific glimpses of shadowy powers and sinister technologies a gifted ear for poesie that makes the English language sing, the unapologetic presumption of the readers ability to understand whats going on without a lot of hand-holding, and a technological mysticism that never explicitly says when the literal stops and the fantasy starts..." Boing Boing"Smart, clever and abundantly original, with suspense that grabs your eyeballs, this is real science fiction for all ages. More! More!" Kirkus"WA blast from start to finish. As far as Im concerned, Ian McDonald could write another dozen or so of these Everness novels, and Id happily read them all." SF Signal

There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one among billions of parallel earths.When Everett Singhs scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer: the Infundibulum, the map of all the parallel earths, the most valuable object in the multiverse. There are dark forces in the Plenitude of Known Worlds who will stop at nothing to get it. Theyve got power, authority, the might of ten planetssome of them more technologically advanced than our Earthat their fingertips. Hes got wits, intelligence, and a knack for Indian cooking.Everett must trick his way through the Heisenberg Gate that his dad helped build and go on the run in a parallel Earth. But to rescue his dad from Charlotte Villiers and the sinister Order, this Planesrunners going to need friends. Friends like Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, her adopted daughter, Sen, and the crew of the airship Everness.Can they rescue Everetts father and get the Infundibulum to safety? The game is afoot!Praise for Planesrunner"PLANESRUNNER is chock-full of awesome. Ian McDonalds steampunk London blazes on a vast scale with eye-popping towers, gritty streets, and larger-than-life characters who arent afraid to fight for each other. The kind of airship-dueling, guns-blazing fantasy that makes me wish I could pop through to the next reality over, join the Airish, and take to the skies." Paolo Bacigalupi"Science fiction rules in this stellar series opener about a boy who travels to parallel universes. What joy to find science fiction based on real scientific concepts Shining imagination, pulsing suspense and sparkling writing make this one stand out." Kirkus (Starred Review)"McDonald writes with scientific and literary sophistication, as well as a wicked sense of humor. Add nonstop action, eccentric characters, and expert universe building, and this first volume of the Everness series is a winner." Publishers Weekly

From the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, an alien force begins to spread, turning the land into an unrecognizable alien landscape. Tendeléo is nine years old when this first package comes down, and before she reaches adulthood the Chaga will change her life forever.REVIEWS"[An] excellent original novella gazes boldly into the heart of darkness, and finds there a great and galvanising hope." Infinity Plus" the Chaga sequence [is] Ian McDonalds marvellous panorama of Third World plights and possibilities." SF SiteWinner of the Sturgeon Award, 2001.

The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. Theyve arrived on an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter.Who could have built such a thing? The Jiju, the dominant species on a plane where the dinosaurs didnt die out. They evolved, diversified, and have a twenty-five million year technology head-start on humanity. If they ever get off their plane, and into the worlds of the Plenitude...Everness has jumped right into the midst of a faction fight between rival nations, but can anyone be safe among the warring Jiju, and what is the price of their help?The crew of the Everness is divided in a very alien world, a world fast approaching the point of apocalypse. And back in the Plenitude of Known Worlds, Charlotte Villiers gathers allies and works her way deep into the corridors of power.Praise for Empress of the Sun"YA or not, the Everness series may be the most enjoyable ongoing series that SF currently has to offer." Locus"The marvelous Everness series takes readers to a world with highly evolved dinosaurs in this third voyage through parallel universes... McDonald lets his imagination run rampant without abandoning credibility, tackling real scientific concepts such as confirmation bias, a feature lacking in far too much science fiction Endlessly fascinating and fun." Kirkus (Starred Review)"With strong characters covering all ages and genders, fine action sequences, and enough cool SF concepts that could fill a volume twice its size, EMPRESS OF THE SUN is an excellent entry in one of my favorite SF series." SF Signal

It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality; from Adam Blacks Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel), to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the towns founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with and married the same woman.REVIEWS"Ian McDonalds Desolation Road is one of my most personally influential novels. Its an epic tale of the terraforming of Mars, whose sweep captures the birth and death of mythologies, economics, art, revolution, politics Desolation Road pays homage to David Byrnes Catherine Wheel, to Ray Bradburys entire canon and to Jack Vance, blending all these disparate creators in a way that surprises, delights, then surprises and delights again." Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing)"McDonalds first novel, it absolutely bowled me over when it came out, and while I have read everything hes published since, and admire all of it and like most of it, this remains my favourite... some of the most beautiful prose imaginable If you ever want to demonstrate how different science fiction can be, what an incredible range and sweep of things are published with a little spaceship on the spine, Desolation Road is a shining datapoint, because it isnt like anything else and yet it is coming from a knowledge of what the genre can do and can be and making something new out of it." Jo Walton (Tor.com)"This is the kind of novel I long to find yet seldom do. Desolation Road is a rara avis... Extraordinary and more than that!" Philip Jose Farmer

"At once disturbing and beautiful . . . superbly realized." The Times (London)Grandfather was a tree, Father grew trux, in fifteen colours. Mother could sing the double-helix song, sing it right into the hearts of living things and change them...The Land is a living, breathing, sentient world, where careful skills and talent can manipulate its very substance into a myriad different shapes and forms.This is the world in which Mathembe Fileli grows up, until the conflicts tearing her country apart shatter her village, her home and her family and scatter them to the four winds. Can Mathembe reunite her family in a world full of angels, talking trees, squalor and glory?"Ian McDonald takes on all the atrocity and strife of the 20th Century, radically displaces it, and dares to envision a means of change. Its a brilliant achievement." Locus"McDonald is a superior writer." Booklist

On the trail of the mystery of Saturns disappearing moons, network journalist Gaby McAslan finds herself in Africa researching the Kilimanjaro Event: a meteor-strike in Kenya which caused the stunning African landscape to give way to something equally beautiful and indescribably alien. Dubbed the Chaga, the alien flora destroys all man-made materials, and moulds human flesh, bone and spirit to its own designs. But when Gaby finds the first man to survive the Chagas changes, she realizes it has its own plans for humankindAgainst the backdrop of Mount Kilimanjaro, McDonald weaves a staggering tale of keen human observation and speculation, as the Kilimanjaro Event changes the course of the human race by exposure to something beyond its imagination.Note: Chaga was published in the UK under the title Evolutions Shore.REVIEWS"McDonald consistently explores new territory with his breathtaking images and incisive language. Both form and substance blend fortuitously in a work that features strong characters, a suspenseful story, and a profound message of hope and transformation. A priority purchase for SF collections." Library Journal"One of the finest writers of his generation, who chooses to write science fiction because that is how he can best illuminate the world." New Statesman"inventive and challenging [an] often fascinating piece of speculation." Kirkus

Winner of the Philip K Dick Award"Filled with wondrous language, marvelous events." Science Fiction ChronicleIn Ireland, three generations of young women fight to control the powers coursing through their blood: the power to bring the mystical Otherworld into our world, and change it.Emily, Jessica and Enye must each face their dark side of human mythoconsciousnessand their own personal histories. But the forces of faerie are ever treacherousFilled with vivid, passionate characters you will never forget, King of Morning, Queen of Day is a spellbinding fantasy of the real Ireland."McDonalds power as a storyteller lies in his stylistic versatility and intensity of language as well as in his capacity to create vivid and memorable characters. Highly recommended." Library Journal"A brilliant book." Charles de Lint

"Cyberpunks first lyrical poem, mixing Kabbalah, manga, pop-culture trivia and Zen with enough style and dexterity to actually pull it off . . . [McDonald] does more in a page than most writers do in a chapter." Neal StephensonWords can control you, words can make you act against your own will...and words can kill.Ethan Ring discovers computer graphics with profound effects on human mindsfracters. Dark political forces want his power, and Ethan must face the consequences of his creation, and his actions.In search of redemption, he embarks on an ancient thousand-mile pilgrimage, but can he ever escape the forces that once controlled him, and can he resist the power of the deadly images tattooed onto his hands?This ebook edition also includes the 2008 novella, The Tear.

A thrilling early work from the author of the critically-acclaimed New Moon trilogy"For ten years, Ive been singing the praises of OUT ON BLUE SIX, Ian McDonalds 1989 science fiction novel that defies description and beggars the imagination this book is one of those once-in-a-generation, brain-melting flashes of brilliance that makes you fall in love with a writers work forever." Cory DoctorowHundreds of years from now, the world is perfect. The Compassionate Society guarantees happiness, peace and total personal fulfillment to its citizens, and those less than satisfied are guilty of Paincrime.Among them, count cartoonist Courtney Hall, who runs afoul of the Ministry of Pain when one of her cartoons hits a little too close to home. Pursued by the relentless Love Police, she drops down a rabbit hole into a counter-world of rebels, artists and enhanced raccoons.Out on Blue Six is a fast, funny, bizarre story of an almost-Utopiaand almost-Utopias make the best dystopias.

The end of the universe happened at around ten oclock at night on 22 December, 2032. Its just that humanity hasnt realized it yet. And the Chaga, the strange flora deposited from the stars, is still busy terraforming the tropics into someone elses terra. Gaby McAslan was once a hungry news reporter who compromised her relationship with UNECTA researcher Dr. Shepard for the sake of her story... but Gaby is no longer a journalist and she doesnt want to be a full-time mother, even though her child Serena is her last link with Shepard. Gabys fire has gone out; shes gone soft. But the massive political and military upheavals rocking the world are about to drag her back into the action.REVIEWS"This is a huge and ambitious novel, the work of a supremely talented writer approaching the top of his game." SFX"So outstanding a writer that he deserves reading beyond the science-fantasy market ... He has such marvellous talent, so vivid an imagination. His prose sings and zings simultaneously." The Times

A Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colorful, witty SF novel, taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonalds Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planets circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future -- or futures -- of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas, and trains as big as city blocks.REVIEWS"Ares Express is a long, adventure-filled, extravagantly colorful, often funny, quite moving, highly imaginative, excellently written story, set on a glorious Mars built partly of sharp-edged Kim Stanley Robinson-style extrapolation, but mostly of lush, loving, Ray Bradbury-style semi-SF, semi-Fantasy, Martian dreams.... I loved it wholeheartedly." SF Site"Hugo-winner McDonalds virtues have long been underappreciated by major North American publishers... McDonalds fantastic Mars is vividly detailed and owes much to Bradburys Martian stories. Despite a bit of hand waving around technology that is glibly indistinguishable from magic, this sequel is entirely worthy of its rightly lauded predecessor [Desolation Road]." Publishers Weekly"One of the strangest, weirdest, fantastic reads of your life." SF Crowsnest"McDonald is clever, lyrical snarky, and utterly wondrous. The characters would be completely unbelievable in our world, but in theirs they are inevitable..." Night Owl Reviews