“In Cyberabad Days, author Ian McDonald returns to the technologically brilliant, parched and i-Dusty India of 2047, an India first visited in his award-winning novel River of Gods… McDonald is rightly praised as one of the industry’s preeminent SF authors and Cyberabad Days is a showcase of his talent. The world he has created on the bled-dry banks of the Ganges is richly textured and alien, detailing lives that are mundane to the characters but foreign and exotic to the readers. The work that went into researching and developing the culture of this future India utopian or dystopian depending on your caste and wealth is obvious. This is a world that manages to be convincingly, sympathetically Indian, but is still created with such light strokes of McDonald’s pen that the reader never gets bogged down in the world-building. You can taste the heat of the day on your tongue, feel the press of the crowds in the streets. Cyberabad Days is a brilliant, well-paced short story collection that snatches snapshots of life in this powerful, futuristic India. You don’t need to have read River of Gods to enjoy Cyberabad Days, McDonald’s world is so immersive it is easy to find your footing in it. The prose is elegant, drawing in lush scenes with a clean economy of language, and the stories riveting. It’s an admirable addition to the canon of McDonald’s work and one that I’d recommend reading.”
“He should be reckoned as one of the finest of all our novelists.”
“One of the most interesting and accomplished science fiction writers of this latter-day era, indeed maybe the most interesting and complished, and certainly the most culturally and musically sophisticated, the Frank Herbert, William Gibson, or arguably even Thomas Pynchon of the early 21st century.”
Copyright
A Gollancz ebook
Copyright © Ian McDonald 2009
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The Little Goddess: Asimov’s Science Fiction. Copyright © Ian McDonald 2005
The Djinn’s Wife: Asimov’s Science Fiction. Copyright © Ian McDonald 2006
Kyle Meets the River: Forbidden Planets, ed. Peter Crowther, Daw Books Ltd.
Copyright © Ian McDonald 2006
Sanjeev and Robotwallah: Fast Forward 1, ed. Lou Anders, Pyr.
Copyright © Ian McDonald 2007
The Dust Assassin: The Starry Rift, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Viking.
Copyright © Ian McDonald 2008
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First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Gollancz
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