River of Gods
Author(s): Ian McDonald
Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
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.
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McDonald's most recent novel BRASYL was widely acclaimed as the best SF novel of 2007 RIVER OF GODS won the BSFA award for best SF novel of the year in 2005 The SF equivalent of MINDNIGHT'S CHILDREN 'A staggering achievement, brilliantly imagined and endlessly surprising ... A brave, brilliant and wonderful novel' GUARDIAN
Ian McDonald was born in Manchester in 1960. His family moved to Northern Island in 1965. He now lives in Belfast and works in TV production. The author of many previous novels including the groundbreaking Chaga books set in Africa Ian McDonald has long been at the cutting edge of SF. RIVER OF GODS won the BSFA award in 2005.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Gollancz
- : 0.384
- : 09 July 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 35mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Science fiction
- : 592
- : 823.914
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Ian McDonald