New Releases by Ian McDonald

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.

It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality; from Adam Black''s Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational ''Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel), to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town''s founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child – grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with – and married – the same woman. REVIEWS "Ian McDonald''s Desolation Road is one of my most personally influential novels. It''s an epic tale of the terraforming of Mars, whose sweep captures the birth and death of mythologies, economics, art, revolution, politics... Desolation Road pays homage to David Byrne''s Catherine Wheel, to Ray Bradbury''s entire canon and to Jack Vance, blending all these disparate creators in a way that surprises, delights, then surprises and delights again." – Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing) "McDonald''s first novel, it absolutely bowled me over when it came out, and while I have read everything he''s published since, and admire all of it and like most of it, this remains my favourite... some of the most beautiful prose imaginable... If you ever want to demonstrate how different science fiction can be, what an incredible range and sweep of things are published with a little spaceship on the spine, Desolation Road is a shining datapoint, because it isn''t like anything else and yet it is coming from a knowledge of what the genre can do and can be and making something new out of it." – Jo Walton (Tor.com) "This is the kind of novel I long to find yet seldom do. Desolation Road is a rara avis... Extraordinary and more than that!" – Philip José Farmer

A Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colorful, witty SF novel, taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald''s Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet''s circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future -- or futures -- of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas, and trains as big as city blocks. REVIEWS " Ares Express is a long, adventure-filled, extravagantly colorful, often funny, quite moving, highly imaginative, excellently written story, set on a glorious Mars built partly of sharp-edged Kim Stanley Robinson-style extrapolation, but mostly of lush, loving, Ray Bradbury-style semi-SF, semi-Fantasy, Martian dreams.... I loved it wholeheartedly." – SF Site "Hugo-winner McDonald''s virtues have long been underappreciated by major North American publishers... McDonald''s fantastic Mars is vividly detailed and owes much to Bradbury''s Martian stories. Despite a bit of hand waving around technology that is glibly indistinguishable from magic, this sequel is entirely worthy of its rightly lauded predecessor [ Desolation Road]." – Publishers Weekly "One of the strangest, weirdest, fantastic reads of your life." – SF Crowsnest "McDonald is clever, lyrical... snarky, and utterly wondrous. The characters would be completely unbelievable in our world, but in theirs they are inevitable..." – Night Owl Reviews

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.

The next installment of the multiple award-winning author''s exciting YA series. Everett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from the clutches of Charlotte Villiers and the Order, but at a terrible price. His father is missing, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All Worlds, and Everett and the crew of the airship Everness have taken a wild, random Heisenberg Jump to a random parallel plane. Everett is smart and resourceful, and, from a frozen earth far beyond the Plenitude, he plans to rescue his family. But the villainous Charlotte Villiers is one step ahead of him. The action traverses the frozen wastes of iceball earth; to Earth 4 (like ours, except that the alien Thryn Sentiency occupied the moon in 1964); to the dead London of the forbidden plane of Earth 1, where the remnants of humanity battle a terrifying nanotechnology run wild--and Everett faces terrible choices of morality and power. But Everett has the love and support of Sen, Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, and the rest of the crew of Everness. He learns that the deadliest enemy isn''t the Order, or the world-devouring nanotech Nahn--it''s yourself. From the Hardcover edition.

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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.

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.