River of Gods - Hardcover

Ian McDonald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743256697 ISBN 13: 9780743256698

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2004

Synopsis

As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business — a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj — the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet — when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden.

In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation.

River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and cultures — one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.

About this title

From the Publisher:

· Nominated for both the Hugo and the Arthur C. Clarke Award · Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel

About the Author:

Ian McDonald is the author of Planesrunner, Be My Enemy, and Empress of the Sun, in the Everness series. He has written thirteen science fiction novels--including the 2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner for Best Novel, The Dervish House--as well as Brasyl, River of Gods, Cyberabad Days, Ares Express, Desolation Road, King of Morning, Queen of Day, Out on Blue Six, Chaga, and Kirinya.  He's been nominated for every major science fiction award, and even won some. McDonald also works in television and in program development--all those reality shows have to come from somewhere--and has written for screen as well as print. He lives in Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast, and loves to travel.

About this edition

• Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743256697
• ISBN 13: 9780743256698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 583