Ian McDonald, Author . Pyr $25 (599p) ISBN 978-1-59102-436-1
This ambitious portrait of a future India from British author McDonald (Desolation Road
) offers multitudes: gods, castes, protagonists, cultures. Nine disparate characters, including a cop, a scientist and a stand-up comic, act out their related...
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Ian McDonald. Tor.com, $3.99 e-book (176p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9145-2
Veteran speculative author McDonald (the Luna series) entrances readers with this multigenerational novella of two time-crossed lovers who can only meet for brief moments separated by several years. An old, anonymous poetry book thrown into the...
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Ian McDonald, Author . Pyr $25 (357p) ISBN 978-1-59102-543-6
British author McDonald's outstanding SF novel channels the vitality of South America's largest country into an edgy, post-cyberpunk free-for-all. McDonald sets up three separate characters in different eras—a cynical contemporary...
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Ian McDonald, Author Bantam Books $19 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-37416-2
Definitions of life and death become blurred when technology makes it possible to ``resurrect'' the dead. ``Resurrected'' bodies are far superior to flesh and blood but, ironically, the act of dying changes one's status to legally dead. In legal...
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Ian McDonald, Author Spectra Books $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08983-7
Mathembe Fileli and her family enjoy a nearly perfect existence in their native village of Chepsenyt, where her father raises trux, live organisms resembling trucks and used in heavy construction work, and her mother spins clothing, food and tools...
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Ian McDonald, Author Spectra Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29239-8
McDonald ( Desolation Road ) redefines the divisions between rich and poor, human and animal, aggressor and victim in this collection of 11 short stories. Once again he conjures futures in which machines and living creatures combine into new forms...
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Ian McDonald, Author Spectra Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-56116-6
McDonald's fifth novel is a slim but powerful vision of 21st-century Japan and a guilt-ridden man's journey through it toward redemption. Ethan Ring, introspective and plagued by the sins of his past, embarks on the ancient Shikoku pilgrimage--an...
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Ian McDonald, Author . Pyr $16 (389p) ISBN 978-1-61614-197-4
Hugo-winner McDonald’s virtues have long been underappreciated by major North American publishers, which may be why it took nine years for this sequel to 1988’s Desolation Road
to make it from the U.K. to the U.S. Dissatisfaction over...
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Ian McDonald. Prometheus/Pyr, $16.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-61614-541-5
In this first YA novel from noted SF writer McDonald (The Dervish House), 14-year-old Everett Singh is still dealing with his parents’ divorce when his quantum physicist father is kidnapped, and both the police and Everett’s father’s boss are acting
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Ian McDonald. Tor, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7553-7
In this powerful sequel to Luna: New Moon, the Dragons, five great industrial families of the lunar colony, fight viciously to increase their power. At the end of the first volume of the series McDonald has referred to as “Dallas in space,” House...
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Ian McDonald. Tor, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9147-6
McDonald concludes his Luna space opera trilogy in triumphant style, following Luna: Wolf Moon. In this near future, the Earth’s moon is controlled by five family corporations known as the Dragons. The central conflict between two members of the...
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Ian McDonald. Tor, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7551-3
McDonald (Empress of the Sun) begins his superb near-future series launch with an elaborate and very necessary list of characters. The five families who rule Earth’s moon, called the Five Dragons, operate in an essentially feudal system. There is no
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Ian McDonald. Tor.com, $14.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-250-24779-7
The sophisticated worldbuilding McDonald presented in his Luna trilogy is sadly absent in this forgettable novella, presented in the form of a bratty teen’s recounting of an adventure to a therapist. In 2089, Cariad Corcoran, who was born on the...
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