Ian McDonald





Ian McDonald

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January 01, 1960 in Manchester, The United Kingdom

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Ian McDonald (1960-) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies.

McDonald was born in 1960, in Manchester, to a Scottish father and Irish mother, but moved to Belfast when he was five, and has lived there ever since. He therefore lived through the whole of the 'Troubles' (1968-99), and his sensibility has been permanently shaped by coming to understand Northern Ireland as a post-colonial (and so, in his view, de facto 'Third World') society imposed on an older culture. He became a fan of SF from childhood TV, began writing when he was 9, sold his first story to a local Belfast magazine whe...more


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I never blog, unless it's to contradict myself, or I have something of interest to report. This is the latter. Just (and by just, I mean, still getting over the travel angst, which, since it involved Ryanair, and a 2:00 am drive up from Dublin, fog and chip'n'pin cardreader failure at a gas station, is considerable) back from Pyrkon, at Poznan in Poland. This is the national Polish SFF conventi... read more »
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Average rating: 3.81 · 6,445 ratings · 1,034 reviews · 102 distinct works
River of Gods
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,293 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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The Dervish House
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 918 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions
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Brasyl
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
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Desolation Road
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions
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Cyberabad Days
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Planesrunner (Everness #1)
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Evolution's Shore
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
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Terminal Café
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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King of Morning, Queen of Day
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 60 ratings3 editions
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“Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.”
Ian McDonald, Brasyl

“He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.”
Ian McDonald, The Dervish House

“Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.”
Ian McDonald, The Dervish House

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