false <![CDATA[Cyberabad Days]]> 3428255 2 Ian McDonald's <i>River of Gods</i> called "a masterpiece" by <i>Asimov s Science Fiction</i> and praised by the <i>Washington Post</i> as "a major achievement from a writer who is becoming one of the best SF novelists of our time" painted a vivid picture of a near future India, 100 years after independence. It revolutionized SF for a new generation by taking a perspective that was not European or American. Nominated for the Hugo Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and winning the BSFA Award, the rich world of the novel has inspired McDonald to revisit its milieu in a series of short stories, all set in the world of <i>River of Gods</i>.<BR> <br> <P><i>Cyberabad Days</i> is a triumphant return to the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas.<BR> <br> <P><i>Cyberabad Days</i> is a collection of eight stories, one Hugo nominee and one Hugo winner among them, as well as a twenty-five thousand word original novella. As with everything Ian McDonald does, it is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.<BR> 3469135 24 2 2009 Cyberabad Days total:55|5:27|4:18|3:6|2:4|1:0| 55 233 148 19 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 07:23:51 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 08:10:20 -0700 2009 Ian McDonald's chops as a storyteller and visionary have become apparent over two decades of cutting-edge SFóin short stories, novels, and the trickier novellas and novelettes that have often formed the springboard for longer works. The stories in Cyberabad Days showcase those skills, distilling th...

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With so much science-fiction out there, it always impresses me to encounter a fresh perspective.

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