Best Selling Books by Ian McDonald

Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies is back with his 10th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy from 2015. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass. Featuring Paolo Bacigalupi • Elizabeth Bear • Greg Bear • Jeffrey Ford • Neil Gaiman • Nalo Hopkinson • Nisi Shawl • Simon Ings • Gwyneth Jones • Caitlin R. Kiernan • Anne Leckie • Kelly Link • Usman T. Malik • Ian McDonald • Vonda McIntrye • Sam J. Miller • Tamsyn Muir • Robert Reed • Alastair Reynolds • Kim Stanley Robinson • Kelly Robson • Geoff Ryman • Nike Sulway • Catherynne Valente • Genevieve Valentine • Kai Ashante Wilson • Alyssa Wong

Outre-espace. Temps futurs.Depuis des millénaires, Tay abrite une humanité parfaitement adaptée aux conditions d’un monde-océan. Pour le jeune Ptey, le moment est venu de rejoindre la Maison de Multiplication et découvrir les huit personnalités qui le constituent, ses Aspects — un rite de passage essentiel qui le changera à jamais. Mais dans le ciel de Tay, depuis des décennies maintenant, se presse la Communauté anpreen, huit cents vaisseaux titanesques à la coque de glace nanorenforcée en quête de ressources. Car aussi puissante que soit l’Anpreen, cette très vieille espèce du Clade, elle n’en est pas moins en fuite — et en ruine. En effet, l’armada anpreen n’est que l’écho d’un conflit immensément plus vaste, et l’Ennemi est sur ses talons, il approche, il sera bientôt là. Quel sort réservera-t-il au paisible monde de Tay une fois l’objet de son ire réduit à néant ?Pour Ptey reste la fuite, mais pour aller où ? « L’une de ces histoires qui vous rappellent pourquoi vous lisez de la science-fiction. Un récit aussi vaste que l’univers et un feu d’artifice d’idées explosives. La bonne SF, c’est ça. »It Doesn’t Have to Be Right... Né à Manchester en 1960 d’un père écossais et d’une mère irlandaise, Ian McDonald vit depuis son enfance en Irlande du Nord. Il publie sa première nouvelle en 1982, son premier roman, Desolation Road, en 1988. C’est le début d’une carrière couronnée par les prix les plus prestigieux — Locus, British Science Fiction Award, ou Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire à trois reprises. Écrivain bourlingueur, McDonald délaisse volontiers les figures imposées de la science-fiction occidentale pour s’intéresser à des cultures tour à tour familières et étrangères. Aspects, space opera tissé dans l’étoffe moirée du vertige, hommage à Olaf Stapledon et aux grands maîtres des récits cosmiques, est le deuxième titre de l’auteur à paraître ici, après Le Temps fut.

Twee kinderen worden elkaars eerste liefde, maar dit lijkt voorbestemd om te mislukken mede door de vooroordelen en de bestaande geschiedenis rond ras en de invloed van de volwassenen in de kinderen hun omgeving.

An unabridged collection spotlighting the “best of the best” science fiction stories published in 2015 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In “My Last Bringback,” by John Barnes, an expert on restoring the memories of Alzheimer''s patients becomes her own patient.A young man living in a bubble habitat on the ocean floor of Venus must deal with terraforming gone awryin “The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss,” by David Brin. In“Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight,” winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, byAliette de Bodard,the death of a scientist in the Dai Viet interstellar empire is mourned. The shipmind of a cobbled together fighter spacecraft and its pilot press on under dire circumstances in “Damage” by David Levine. An aristocrat’s trip to Venus, in search of her disgraced brother, is memorialized by papercuts of flora native to this planet in “Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan,” by Ian McDonald. In “The Audience,” by Sean McMullen, a spacecraft’s trek to another planet discovers a malevolent species interested in Earth. An AI is on a mission to the outer reaches of the solar system to found a sanctuary in a posthuman universe in “Empty,” by Robert Reed. In “A Murmuration,” by Alastair Reynolds, a scientist struggles to publish a paper on her exhilarating findings on the flocking behavior of birds. In the dystopian future of “Two-Year Man,” by Kelly Robson, a janitor brings a mutant baby home to his wife hoping to fill their lives with love. And finally, an android medical attendant, capable of mimicking family members, cares for an Alzheimer’s patient in “Today I Am Paul,” by Martin L. Shoemaker.

The “Red Baron” from Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) was Les McDonald, once a firebrand Communist activist and the youthful leader of the left faction within the Vancouver electrical workers’ union. His fate would be intertwined with the Lenkurt Electric strike of 1966, a wildcat strike that led to the imprisonment of four trade union leaders. Following his involvement as a long-time trade unionist, McDonald went on to be better known for his dedication to the establishment of triathlon as an official sport of the Olympic Games. However, McDonald’s important role in Local 213 and the Lenkurt strike—a watershed moment in Canadian labour history—was, until now, the untold story of the first half of his life. Referencing Local 213’s Minute Books, newspaper articles, collected correspondence, as well as dozens of personal interviews conducted by the author, this book examines the history of IBEW Local 213 in the turbulent years leading up to the Lenkurt strike. In addition to describing these events and their important historical ramifications, author Ian McDonald chronicles how his father helped to rebuild a left faction within the local union. With a focus on the period between 1955 to 1985, this ground-breaking study of a single construction trade union local—its brief post-World War II experience with Communist leadership, well-known work-site militancy, and repeated interventions by the IBEW’s International Office—sheds light on the local’s “red” minority activism and ultimately explains why McDonald returned to the world of sport to finish his career.

An amazing roller coaster ride through the frontiers of the imagination from the author of the award-winning King of Morning, Queen of Day. Here are eleven previously uncollected tales filled with magic, humor, and the stunning realism that can surface only in the most well-conceived fantasies.

Ian McDonald''s poetry embraces Caribbean possibility with a romantic fervour which still acknowledges what is harsh and painful in the region. He has both the gift to see ''the ibis-bird in pigeons'' and an ironical consciousness of the poet''s gilding eye. There are love poems of lyric grace and stunning simplicity; exuberant paeans to nature in all its beauty, fierceness and cruelty; narratives which grip and characters who are powerfully memorable. Here is a celebration of life which is made all the more intense by the consciousness of mortality which lurks behind every vivid occasion. Readers who have enjoyed Ian McDonald''s recent work in the much praised collections Mercy Ward and Essequibo will be delighted by these earlier poems, only a few of which have been available to date in anthologies and Caribbean literary journals. Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.

Peter Hamilton brings his trademark flair for narrative sweep and epic ideas to a short novel that tells the story of an near- immortal mankind that grew from the Roman Empire. Paired with WATCHING TREES GROW is TENDELEO¿S STORY the Theodore Sturgeon award-winning new Chaga short novel from the acclaimed Ian McDonald.

KLING KLANG KLATCH is set in a superficially glittering world that, if not exactly human, reflects humanity''s desires, corruption, and racism at a fundamental level. Ian McDonald''s (Desolation Road) blackly bizarre wit and David Lyttleton''s (Punch) razor-sharp eye for detail have created a unique fantasy with a delicious streak of dark humor.

Los Angeles has its Necroville or "City of the Dead"--off-limits to living humans--but on the Night of the Dead, Necroville throws the wildest party L.A. has ever seen and mysterious events threaten all of humanity