Cyberabad Days
By Ian McDonald
2009
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336
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A collection of eight stories, "Cyberabad Days" is a triumphant return to the India of 2047 (the India of River of Gods ); a new, muscular superpower in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, strange new genders, and genetically improved children. contents: 9 • America is Not the Only Planet (2009) essay by Paul McAuley 13 • Sanjeev and Robotwallah (2007) short story 31 • Kyle Meets the River (2006) novelette 51 • The Dust Assassin (2008) novelette 79 • An Eligible Boy (2008) novelette 109 • The Little Goddess (2005) novella 155 • The Djinn's Wife (2006) novelette 199 • Vishnu at the Cat Circus (2009) novella
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Author
Ian McDonald
Author · 34 books
Ian Neil McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He used to live in a house built in the back garden of C. S. Lewis’s childhood home but has since moved to central Belfast, where he now lives, exploring interests like cats, contemplative religion, bonsai, bicycles, and comic-book collecting. He debuted in 1982 with the short story “The Island of the Dead” in the short-lived British magazine Extro. His first novel, Desolation Road, was published in 1988. Other works include King of Morning, Queen of Day (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award), River of Gods, The Dervish House (both of which won British Science Fiction Association Awards), the graphic novel Kling Klang Klatch, and many more. His most recent publications are Planesrunner and Be My Enemy, books one and two of the Everness series for younger readers (though older readers will find them a ball of fun, as well). Ian worked in television development for sixteen years, but is glad to be back to writing fulltime.
