Ian McDonald

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January 01, 1960 in Manchester, The United Kingdom

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website

http://ianmcdonald.livejournal.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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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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Goats! In Cloaks!

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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Books by Ian McDonald

Average rating: 3.81 · 6,445 ratings · 1,034 reviews · 102 distinct works

	River of Gods 3.86 avg rating — 1,293 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Dervish House 3.84 avg rating — 918 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Brasyl 3.59 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Desolation Road 3.85 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 1988 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Cyberabad Days 4.00 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Planesrunner (Everness #1) 3.80 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Evolution's Shore 3.72 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Terminal Café 3.72 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	My rating:
	King of Morning, Queen of Day 3.73 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone 3.90 avg rating — 60 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Ian McDonald

Everness (2 books)
by Ian McDonald

3.80 avg rating — 118 ratings

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Quotes by Ian McDonald

“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

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“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

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

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Polls

These are the nominations for the May Science fiction Theme: Philip K. Dick Award Nominees

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

9 votes 47.4%

Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

4 votes 21.1%

Clade by Mark Budz

3 votes 15.8%

Neuromancer by William Gibson

2 votes 10.5%

City of Pearl by Karen Traviss

1 vote 5.3%

Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald

0 votes 0.0%

19 total votes

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