New Releases by Ian McDonald

A FanFiAddict Most Anticipated Title! How to Train Your Dragon meets Mad Max in this story of an orphan in a fractured Southwest who just wants to ride a dinosaur under the lights. Come one, come all to the dinosaur rodeo! Tif Tamim wants nothing more than to be a dinosaur buckaroo. An orphan in search of a place to rest his head and a job to weigh down his pockets, Tif has bounced from circus to circus, yearning for a chance to ride a prehistoric beauty under the sparkling lights of a big-top. To become a buckaroo, Tif needs to learn the tools of the trade, yet few dino maestros want to take a scrawny nobody from nowhere under their wing. But when Tif frees a dino from an abusive owner and braves the roving gangs of the formerly-American west to bring the dino to safety, he catches someone’s eye. And boy, how those eyes dazzle Tif from the back of a bucking carnotaur. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with a power unlike any we''ve seen before. When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne—tweed-suited, otherworldly, guided by the Grace—in the middle of a London riot, she sets in motion a series of events which will span decades, continents and a series of events which will change the world. From rioting London to geothermal Iceland to the climate-struck islands of Polynesia, from birth to life to death, from tranquillity to terror to joy, Raisa’s journey will encompass the world. But one thing will always be true. Hopeland is family—and family is dangerous. Also by Ian McDonald The Luna Series Luna: New Moon Luna: Wolf Moon Luna: Moon Rising At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lucas Corta, que tout le monde croyait mort, a réussi l’impossible : survivre, lui, le natif de la Lune, à un long séjour sur la Terre. Revenu en orbite pour se venger, il a triomphé. Désormais la Lune lui appartient. Mais il a également beaucoup perdu, à commencer par son fils Lucasinho, plongé dans le coma et atteint de lésions cérébrales irréversibles. Sans compter que les Mackenzie rescapés n’ont pas dit leur dernier mot et espèrent bien rendre à Lucas la monnaie de sa pièce. Les Sun, quant à eux, fourbissent toujours leurs armes pour éliminer tous leurs concurrents. Plus que jamais, sur la Lune, la guerre entre les Cinq Dragons fait rage. Après le succès des précédents tomes, Ian McDonald retrouve avec brio l’univers violent et sans concession de Luna.

Száz évvel a jövőben háború dúl az Öt Sárkány – a Hold vezető ipari vállalatait irányító öt család – között. Mind az öt klán foggal-körömmel igyekszik a tápláléklánc csúcsára jutni, és ehhez bevetnek érdekházasságokat, ipari kémkedést, emberrablást és tömeges merényleteket is. Lucas Corta, a családfő zseniális politikai machinációi és akaratereje révén a veszteségből győzelmet kovácsol, és magához ragadja a Hold feletti uralmat. Az egyetlen, aki útjába állhat, páratlan ügyvéd húga, Ariel. Ian McDonald Luna-trilógiájának lélegzetelállító fináléjában a Sárkányok ismét összecsapnak a végső hatalomért.

Bouquiniste indépendant, Emmett Leigh déniche un jour un petit recueil de poèmes lors de la liquidation de la librairie d’un confrère. Un recueil, Le Temps fut, qui s’avère vite d’une qualité littéraire au mieux médiocre... En revanche, ce qui intéresse Emmett au plus haut point, c’est la lettre manuscrite qu’il découvre glissée entre les pages de l’ouvrage. Pour le bouquiniste, tout ce qui peut donner un cachet unique et personnel à un livre est bon à prendre. Il se trouve ici en présence d’une lettre d’amour qu’un certain Tom adresse à son amant, Ben, en plein cœur de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Remuant ciel et terre – et vieux papiers – afin d’identifier les deux soldats, Emmett finit par les retrouver sur diverses photos, prises à différentes époques. Or, la date présumée des photos et l’âge des protagonistes qui y figurent ne correspondent pas... Du tout.

In The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families. Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works. Cariad Corcoran has a new sister who is everything she is not: tall, beautiful, confident. They''re unlikely allies and even unlikelier sisters, but they''re determined to find the moon''s first footprint, even if the lunar frontier is doing its best to kill them before they get there. Praise for Ian McDonald''s Luna series "McDonald''s never written a bad novel, but Luna: New Moon is a great one."—Cory Doctorow "With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. "— Los Angeles Review of Books At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

2103. Sur une Lune où tout se vend, où tout s’achète, jusqu’aux sels minéraux contenus dans votre urine, et où la mort peut survenir à peu près à n’importe quel moment, Adriana Corta est la dirigeante du plus récent des ''Cinq Dragons'', ces familles à couteaux tirés qui règnent sur les colonies lunaires. Elle doit l’ascension météoritique de son organisation au commerce de l’hélium 3. Mais Corta Hélio possède de nombreux ennemis, et si Adriana, au crépuscule de sa vie, veut léguer quelque chose à ses cinq enfants, il lui faudra se battre, et en retour ils devront se battre pour elle... Car sur la Lune, ce nouveau Far West en pleine ruée vers l’or, tous les coups sont permis. Souvent comparé à Game of Thrones à cause de la brutalité de ses intrigues, récompensé par le Gaylactic Spectrum Award 2016, Luna, Nouvelle Lune est le premier volume d’une trilogie.

Einhundert Jahre in der Zukunft: Die fünf Drachen, die einflussreichen Familienclans, haben die Herrschaft über den Mond unter sich aufgeteilt. Aber jedes Haus will noch ein wenig mehr Macht, ein wenig mehr Einfluss an sich reißen – und dazu ist ihnen jedes Mittel recht: Eheschließungen, Verschwörungen, Erpressung und sogar Mord. Doch dann taucht ein neuer Spieler auf dem politischen Parkett der Mondgesellschaft auf – und aus im Verborgenen geführten Scharmützeln wird offener Krieg ...

Winner of the Philip K Dick Award "Filled with wondrous language, marvelous events." — Science Fiction Chronicle In Ireland, three generations of young women fight to control the powers coursing through their blood: the power to bring the mystical Otherworld into our world, and change it. Emily, Jessica and Enye must each face their dark side of human mythoconsciousness–and their own personal histories. But the forces of faerie are ever treacherous... Filled with vivid, passionate characters you will never forget, King of Morning, Queen of Day is a spellbinding fantasy of the real Ireland. "McDonald''s power as a storyteller lies in his stylistic versatility and intensity of language as well as in his capacity to create vivid and memorable characters. Highly recommended." — Library Journal "A brilliant book." —Charles de Lint

A thrilling early work from the author of the critically-acclaimed New Moon trilogy "For ten years, I''ve been singing the praises of OUT ON BLUE SIX, Ian McDonald''s 1989 science fiction novel that defies description and beggars the imagination... this book is one of those once-in-a-generation, brain-melting flashes of brilliance that makes you fall in love with a writer''s work forever." — Cory Doctorow Hundreds of years from now, the world is perfect. The Compassionate Society guarantees happiness, peace and total personal fulfillment to its citizens, and those less than satisfied are guilty of Paincrime. Among them, count cartoonist Courtney Hall, who runs afoul of the Ministry of Pain when one of her cartoons hits a little too close to home. Pursued by the relentless Love Police, she drops down a rabbit hole into a counter-world of rebels, artists and enhanced raccoons. Out on Blue Six is a fast, funny, bizarre story of an almost-Utopia–and almost-Utopias make the best dystopias.

"At once disturbing and beautiful . . . superbly realized." — The Times (London) Grandfather was a tree, Father grew trux, in fifteen colours. Mother could sing the double-helix song, sing it right into the hearts of living things and change them... The Land is a living, breathing, sentient world, where careful skills and talent can manipulate its very substance into a myriad different shapes and forms. This is the world in which Mathembe Fileli grows up, until the conflicts tearing her country apart shatter her village, her home and her family and scatter them to the four winds. Can Mathembe reunite her family in a world full of angels, talking trees, squalor and glory? "Ian McDonald takes on all the atrocity and strife of the 20th Century, radically displaces it, and dares to envision a means of change. It''s a brilliant achievement." — Locus "McDonald is a superior writer." — Booklist

"Cyberpunk''s first lyrical poem, mixing Kabbalah, manga, pop-culture trivia and Zen with enough style and dexterity to actually pull it off . . . [McDonald] does more in a page than most writers do in a chapter." —Neal Stephenson Words can control you, words can make you act against your own will...and words can kill. Ethan Ring discovers computer graphics with profound effects on human minds—fracters. Dark political forces want his power, and Ethan must face the consequences of his creation, and his actions. In search of redemption, he embarks on an ancient thousand-mile pilgrimage, but can he ever escape the forces that once controlled him, and can he resist the power of the deadly images tattooed onto his hands? This ebook edition also includes the 2008 novella, The Tear.

Il salto di Heisenberg ha portato la Everness su una Terra alternativa, diversa da qualsiasi luogo l''equipaggio dell''astronave abbia mai visto. Everett Singh, Sen e gli altri si trovano su una pianura sconfinata, in un mondo in cui i dinosauri non si sono estinti ma si sono evoluti acquisendo un vantaggio tecnologico di venticinque milioni di anni sull''umanità, e nel bel mezzo dello scontro tra nazioni rivali. L''equipaggio della Everness deve affrontare un mondo che sta andando rapidamente verso l''apocalisse. Per sopravvivere, e per capire quali nuovi scenari si aprono per l''umanità...

"[A] multigenerational novella of two time-crossed lovers . . . Fans of science fiction who enjoy a dash of history and legend will savor this tender story." — Publishers Weekly A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it. In the heart of World War II, Tom and Ben became lovers. Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found. Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their desperate timelines overlap. "With echoes of H. G. Wells''s The Time Machine . . . Time Was weaves an exquisite spell of love, war and quantum physics that is timeless in its appeal." —Nina Allan, award-winning author of The Silver Wind "McDonald''s gift for storytelling is on full display as he captures the emotional nuances of a decades-long love while exploring issues of military and scientific might and the state of the contemporary book industry." — Booklist

The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. They''ve arrived on an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter. Who could have built such a thing? The Jiju, the dominant species on a plane where the dinosaurs didn''t die out. They evolved, diversified, and have a twenty-five million year technology head-start on humanity. If they ever get off their plane, and into the worlds of the Plenitude... Everness has jumped right into the midst of a faction fight between rival nations, but can anyone be safe among the warring Jiju, and what is the price of their help? The crew of the Everness is divided in a very alien world, a world fast approaching the point of apocalypse. And back in the Plenitude of Known Worlds, Charlotte Villiers gathers allies and works her way deep into the corridors of power. Praise for Empress of the Sun "YA or not, the Everness series may be the most enjoyable ongoing series that SF currently has to offer." — Locus "The marvelous Everness series takes readers to a world with highly evolved dinosaurs in this third voyage through parallel universes... McDonald lets his imagination run rampant without abandoning credibility, tackling real scientific concepts such as confirmation bias, a feature lacking in far too much science fiction... Endlessly fascinating and fun." — Kirkus (Starred Review) "With strong characters covering all ages and genders, fine action sequences, and enough cool SF concepts that could fill a volume twice its size, EMPRESS OF THE SUN is an excellent entry in one of my favorite SF series." — SF Signal

Una nueva forma de vivir, mil formas de morir. Segunda entrega de la trilogía de ciencia ficción «Luna». Corta Hélio, una de las cinco corporaciones familiares que gobiernan la Luna, ha caído. Sus riquezas se reparten entre sus innumerables enemigos, y sus supervivientes están dispersos. Han pasado dieciocho meses. Lucasinho y Luna, los jóvenes Corta, se encuentran bajo la protección de los poderosos Asamoah, mientras que Robson, aún conmocionado tras presenciar la muerte violenta de sus padres, es ahora pupilo, prácticamente un rehén, de Mackenzie Metals. Y el último heredero, Lucas, ha desaparecido de la faz de la Luna. Solo lady Sun, la matriarca de Taiyang, sospecha que Lucas Corta no ha muerto y, lo más importante, que sigue desempeñando un importante papel. A fin de cuentas, siempre se le han dado bien las maquinaciones, e incluso desde la muerte está dispuesto a todo con tal de recuperar lo perdido y reconstruir Corta Hélio, con más poder que antes. Pero Corta Hélio necesita aliados y, para buscarlos, el hijo fugitivo emprende un viaje audaz e imposible... a laTierra. En un entorno lunar inestable, las lealtades cambiantes y las intrigas políticas de las diversas familias alcanzan el cénit de sus tramas más elaboradas cuando estalla una guerra abierta entre ellas. Opiniones: «Mucha intriga, violencia, sexo... una suerte de Dallas en la Luna.» The Guardian «Preveo abundantes nominaciones para este libro. Recomendado.» SFF World «Ian McDonald es uno de los mejores escritores de ciencia ficción del mundo.» KimStanley Robinson «McDonald crea una compleja y fascinante civilización con una tecnología creíble, personajes complejos e historias que se sostienen.» Publishers Weekly

"For all the enjoyable intrigue he concocts, McDonald never lets us forget that the Moon is a frontier that basically just wants to kill us." ― Chicago Tribune A Dragon is dead. Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed. The remaining Helio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are under the protection of the powerful Asamoahs, while Robson, still reeling from witnessing his parent''s violent deaths, is now a ward—virtually a hostage—of Mackenzie Metals. And the last appointed heir, Lucas, has vanished off the surface of the moon. Only Lady Sun, dowager of Taiyang, suspects that Lucas Corta is not dead, and more to the point—that he is still a major player in the game. After all, Lucas always was the schemer, and even in death, he would go to any lengths to take back everything and build a new Corta Helio, more powerful than before. But Corta Helio needs allies, and to find them, the fleeing son undertakes an audacious, impossible journey—to Earth. In an unstable lunar environment, the shifting loyalties and political machinations of each family reach the zenith of their most fertile plots as outright war erupts. Luna: Wolf Moon continues Ian McDonald''s saga of the Five Dragons. "The fights and vengeance that follow are more vicious and intricate than anything in Game of Thrones, full of great acts of self-sacrifice and viciousness alike, brave cavalry charges and last stands, cowardice and avarice." ― Boing Boing

En 2004, Ian McDonald publiait en Angleterre un roman d’une ambition peu commune dans le paysage de la science-fiction contemporaine, Le fleuve des dieux, un livre aux multiples intrigues situées dans une Inde de 2047 balkanisée et soumise à une sécheresse sans précédent. Le prix de la British Science Fiction Association a récompensé ce roman et son édition française a reçu le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire et le prix Bob Morane. En 2009, Ian McDonald a rassemblé, sous le titre La petite déesse, les sept nouvelles et courts romans qu’il avait écrits sur cette même Inde du futur. On y découvre, souvent par le biais du regard d’enfants, un sous-continent où les hommes sont quatre fois plus nombreux que les femmes, où se côtoient des gens d’une extrême pauvreté, des intelligences artificielles et des stars virtuelles, tous confrontés à des menaces d’un genre nouveau. La nouvelle éponyme a, elle aussi, été récompensée par le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, "L’épouse du djinn" ayant, elle, reçu le prestigieux prix Hugo.

"Ian McDonald, the author of such landmark novels as Desolation Road, Chaga, River of Gods, and The Dervish House, has long been regarded as one of Britain''s finest SF writers. Just like those full-length works, his shorter fiction has commanded much admiration, and now, in this massive retrospective volume, the best McDonald tales are assembled in glittering array. Represented here are all the phases of McDonald''s career: the poetic early retro-visions that in the late Eighties signalled the arrival of a marvellously fluent new stylistic voice; the virtuoso Nineties riffs on themes such as the Irish Troubles, nanotechnology, alternate history, and alien sexuality; the bold post-millennial ventures into the futuristic politics of Third World countries such as Kenya, India, and Brazil, as well as far afield to alien solar systems; and recent, dazzlingly conceived variations on the Arab Spring, the nature of superheroes, and Mars as pulp SF writers once fondly imagined it to be. The treasures are abundant, each presented in McDonald’s addictive, immersive prose--language at once elegantly timeless and edgily contemporary."--Publisher''s statement.

Emily Desmond, Jessica Caldwell, Enye MacCall, trois générations de femmes irlandaises, folles pour certains, sorcières pour d''autres. La première fréquente les lutins du bois de Bridestone quand son père, astronome, essaie de communiquer avec des extraterrestres qu''i imagine embarqués sur une comète. La seconde, jeune Dublinoise mythomane, se réfugie dans ses mensonges parce que la vérité est sans doute trop dure à supporter. Quant à Enye MacColl, katana à la main, elle mène un combat secret contre des monstres venus d''on ne sait où.

The Future Is Ourselves The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come? Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to drastically alter. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series, featuring stories by Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, James S.A. Corey, Gregory Benford, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Simon Ings, Kameron Hurley, Nancy Kress, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Bruce Sterling, Sean Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela and Ian McDonald.

The scions of a falling house navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family''s status on the Moon in this thrilling space opera. The Moon wants to kill you. Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water, and air runs out, just before you hit paydirt. Maybe it will kill you when you are trapped between the reigning corporations—the Five Dragons—in a foolish gamble against a futuristic feudal society. On the Moon, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon''s newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon''s Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie Metal corporation and fought to earn her family''s new status. Now, in the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation—Corta Helio—confronted by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana''s five children must defend their mother''s empire from her many enemies . . . and each other. Perfect for fans of Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken Macleod alike. Praise for Luna: New Moon "McDonald''s never written a bad novel, but [ Luna: New Moon] is a great one." —Cory Doctorow "With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. "— Los Angeles Review of Books "McDonald creates a complex and fascinating civilization featuring believable technology, and the characters are fully developed, with individually gripping stories." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

In einer kleinen marsianischen Stadt ... Dies ist die Geschichte einer Stadt auf dem Mars. Sie ist nicht die größte oder die schönste, sondern liegt mitten in der Wüste. Sie ist einzigartig, vor allem wegen der exzentrischen Individualisten, die sich dort angesiedelt haben: Stadtgründer Dr. Alimantando folgt einem mysteriösen grünen Wesen, das jede Nacht neben seinem Feuer auftaucht. Die Jagd bleibt ohne Erfolg, und so beschließt er, sich in der Einsamkeit niederzulassen. Die währt allerdings nicht lange: Schräge Typen wie Rajendra Das, ein Landstreicher, der mit Maschinen sprechen kann, Babushka, eine alte Frau, die ein Kind aus dem Reagenzglas will, die Gallacelli-Brüder, Drillinge, die am Ende alle dieselbe Frau heiraten und noch einige Lebenskünstler mehr zieht es in die Einsamkeit der endlosen Marswüste ...

Die Aliens landen nicht vor dem Weißen Haus Der erste Besuch fremder Lebensformen aus dem All lief ganz anders, als man ihn sich vorgestellt hatte: Die Aliens lassen Tausende kleine biologische Bomben auf dem Äquator niedergehen, besonders betroffen ist Kenia. Wo immer diese Bio-Asteroiden niedergehen, verändern sie die Umwelt, entziehen Mensch und Tier den Lebensraum. Die Journalistin Gaby McAslan untersucht nicht nur die Aliens, sondern auch die Auswirkungen der UN-Sperrzonen auf die Menschen in Afrika – und macht dabei eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung ...

Istanbul, avril 2027. Sous une chaleur écrasante, la ville tentaculaire fête l’anniversaire de l’entrée de la Turquie dans la Communauté européenne. Dans Istanbul en ébullition (l’air conditionné coûte trop cher, l’eau aussi), une bombe explose dans un tramway. Cet événement va bouleverser la vie des habitants de la maison des derviches de la place Adem Dede : Necdet se met à voir des djinns, le jeune Can utilise son robot pour enquêter sur l’attentat non revendiqué, l’antiquaire Ayse accepte de rechercher un sarcophage légendaire, Leyla se voit chargée du marketing d’une nouvelle technologie révolutionnaire : le stockage bio-informatique. C’est dans la maison des derviches que se joueront rien de moins que l’avenir de la Turquie et celui du monde tel que nous le connaissons. La maison des derviches est une fresque flamboyante qui décrit magistralement la Turquie d’un futur proche. Le roman a reçu le prix Planète-SF des blogueurs 2013, le John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2011 et le British Science Fiction Association Award 2010.

A collection of science fiction stories and novelettes by the Hugo and Philip K. Dick Award–winning author of Desolation Road and Luna: New Moon. Published in conjunction with his Locus Award–winning debut novel, Desolation Road, Empire Dreams collects some of Ian McDonald''s finest early short fiction, including a several stories that first appeared in Asimov''s Science Fiction magazine. In "Vivaldi," an astrophysicist contemplates the death of the universe as he hurtles through space to investigate a black hole. A beach bum in Morocco encounters a woman who is curiously full of life in "Radio Marrakech." An Irish scientist prepares to make contact with aliens as his daughter dreams of fairies in "King of Morning, Queen of Day." And in the title novelette, a boy is given an experimental treatment that allows him to fight his cancer via virtual reality gameplaying. As Asimov''s Science Fiction declared, Ian McDonald is "the Frank Herbert, William Gibson, or arguably even Thomas Pynchon of the early 21st century."

Tous les hindous vous le diront, pour se débarrasser de ses péchés, il suffit de se laver dans les eaux du Gangâ, dans la cité de Vârânacî. Et, en cette année 2047, les péchés ce n''est pas ce qui manque : un corps aux ovaires prélevés glisse doucement sur les eaux du fleuve ; des intelligences artificielles se rebellent et causent de tels dégâts qu''une unité de police a été spécialement créée pour les excommunier. Gangâ, le fleuve des dieux, dont les eaux n''ont jamais été aussi basses, se rue vers un gouffre conceptuel, technologique, évolutionnaire... ou peut-être tout cela à la fois. À travers le kaléidoscope de neuf destins interconnectés, Ian McDonald dresse le portrait d''une Inde future, mais aussi d''une Terre future, où tout n''est que vertige. Unanimement salué par la critique, Le fleuve des dieux a reçu le British Science Fiction Award, le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, le prix Bob Morane et a été finaliste du prestigieux prix Hugo.

Découvrez Brage, le label de formats courts des éditions Bragelonne ! Dans la nouvelle magnifique que nous présentons ici, qui contient suffisamment d''idées éblouissantes pour remplir un roman de huit cents pages, McDonald nous fait comprendre qu''une guerre totale entre deux civilisations interstellaires rivales serait lente, atroce et vaste, et, enfin - totale. Sans laisser le moindre refuge au sein de la Galaxie, voire dans tout l''Univers, pour le camp des perdants. L''auteur britannique Ian McDonald est un écrivain ambitieux et audacieux, doté d''un talent impressionnant et d''une palette de styles très variés. Sa première nouvelle fut publiée en 1982, et depuis ses fictions sont souvent apparues dans Interzone, Asimov''s Science Fiction, New Worlds et autres publications. Il fut nominé pour le prix John W. Campbell - destiné aux nouveaux écrivains de SF - en 1985, et il gagna le prix Locus dans la catégorie « Meilleur premier roman » en 1989 pour Desolation Road. Sa nouvelle « Tendeléo »1 fut lauréate du prix Theodore Sturgeon en 2001. Il remporta également le Philip K. Dick Award en 1992 pour le roman de Fantasy, Roi du matin, reine du jour. Son dernier roman, Brasyl2, lui valut le prix de la British Science Fiction Association en 2008. Ses autres livres comprennent les romans Nécroville, Out on Blue Six, Hearts, Hands and Voices, Sacrifice of Fools, Chaga, Kirinya et River of Gods, ainsi que deux recueils de nouvelles, Empire Dreams (traduit sous ce titre en français) et Speaking In Tongues. Un nouveau recueil, Cyberabad Days, qui rassemble ses nouvelles liées à l''Inde futuriste décrite dans River of Gods, vient de paraître. Né en 1960 à Manchester en Angleterre, McDonald vit depuis longtemps en Irlande du Nord. Il réside et travaille aujourd''hui à Belfast.

El 15 de agosto de 2047, cuando se cumplen cien años del nacimiento de la India, diez extraños ven cómo sus vidas se cruzan. Un policía, un consejero del Gobierno, un humorista, un actor, un delincuente callejero, un periodista, un investigador y un científico estadounidense son algunos de los elegidos que, durante las siguientes semanas, tendrán en sus manos el poder de decidir el destino de un país de mil quinientos millones de personas que veneran a nueve millones de dioses diferentes.