The science fiction of Ian McDonald.....
Explore the captivating science fiction of Ian McDonald with a complete list of his best books. Dive into futuristic worlds, rich storytelling, and visionary themes in McDonald's acclaimed works.
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Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone
by Ian McDonald
The creator of computer-generated images that have the power to heal, erase memories, bring ecstasy, and kill savagely, graphic arts student Ethan Ring must brave treacherous terrain to escape those who would use his invention for evil. Original.
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River of Gods
by Ian McDonald
As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business — a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj — the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet — when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and cultures — one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.
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Evolution's Shore
by Ian McDonald
A meteorite falls on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro and the area is transformed into a new world which provides the local inhabitants with all the necessities of life, as well as immortality. The story is told by an Irish woman reporter who is sent to investigate the meteorite.
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Out on Blue Six
by Ian McDonald
In the Compassionate Society, a totalitarian future society where happiness is law, cartoonist Courtney Hall finds herself a fugitive from justice when one of her political cartoons runs afoul of the Ministry of Pain
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Ares Express
by Ian McDonald
Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's DESOLATION ROAD, ARES EXPRESS is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's 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.
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Terminal Cafe
by Ian McDonald
Los Angeles has its Necroville or "City of the Dead"--off-limits to living humans--but on the Night of the Dead, Necroville throws the wildest party L.A. has ever seen and mysterious events threaten all of humanity
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Desolation Road
by Ian McDonald
Relates the history of a bizarre little town on the edge of the Martian desert over the course of its thirty-year existence
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The Broken Land
by Ian McDonald
In the midst of the war between the Emperor and the people of Chepsenyt, young Mathembe Fileli is separated from her parents, and she sets off on a desperate journey of survival. Reprint.
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Kling, Klang, Klatch
by Ian McDonald
KLING KLANG KLATCH is set in a superficially glittering world that, if not exactly human, reflects humanity's desires, corruption, and racism at a fundamental level. Ian McDonald's (Desolation Road) blackly bizarre wit and David Lyttleton's (Punch) razor-sharp eye for detail have created a unique fantasy with a delicious streak of dark humor.
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The Humming-bird Tree
by Ian McDonald
Alan was too young to understand why his parents preferred him to play with the other white boys on the estate. But, he learned that if he was going to meet Kaiser and Jaillin, he had to pretend he was going to meet someone else. Sometimes, the pretending became real, and Alan found himself in betrayal of the friendship that meant so much to him.
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King of Morning, Queen of Day
by Ian McDonald
Three generations of Irish women--Emily, Jessica, and Enye--struggle to tame the ancient magical powers that imbue the countryside and themselves, each with varying degrees of success
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Empire Dreams
by Ian McDonald
Filled with magic, humor and the stunning realism that can surface only in the most well-conceived fantasies, Ian McDonalds's Empire Dreams is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the ever-changing landscape of the human imagination--a ride that will leave readers breathless with wonder and awe.
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Kirinya
by Ian McDonald
The end of the universe happened at around ten o¿clock at night on 22 December 2032. It¿s just that humanity hasn¿t realized it yet. And the Chaga, the strange flora deposited from the stars, is still busy terraforming the tropics into someone else¿s 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 doesn¿t want to be a full-time mother, even though her child Serena is her last link with Shepard. Gaby¿s fire has gone out; she¿s gone soft. But the massive political and military upheavals that are rocking the world are about to drag her back into the action.
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Sacrifice of Fools
by Ian McDonald
Murder mystery and science fiction thriller combine. In Ireland in 2001, a member of the Shian community is brutally murdered. Human and a alien cultures collide.
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Necroville
by Ian McDonald
In the 21st century nanotechnology has revolutionized the world - it has even raised the dead.