New Releases by Ian McDonald

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 monstre de plus de 600 pages, aux multiples intrigues situées dans une Inde de 2047 balkanisée et en proie à une sécheresse sans précédent. Le prix de la British Science Fiction Association a récompensé ce roman qui s''est aussitôt imposé comme le Blade Runner du début de XXIe siècle. Son édition française a reçu le Grand Prix de l''Imaginaire. 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 puissants, gens d''une extrême pauvreté, intelligences artificielles et stars virtuelles, tous confrontés à des menaces d''un genre nouveau.

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.

When fourteen-year-old Everett Singh''s scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves a mysterious app on Everett''s computer giving him access to the Infundibulum--a map of parallel earths--which is being sought by technologically advanced dark powers that Everett must somehow elude while he tries to rescue his father.

Features short stories about robots that depict the complications and questions surrounding rights, human bonding, and freedom.

It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Everyone it seems is after a piece of Turkey. But the shockwaves from this random act of 21st century pandemic terrorism will ripple further and resonate louder than just Enginsoy Square. Welcome to the world of The Dervish House—the great, ancient, paradoxical city of Istanbul, divided like a human brain, in the great, ancient, equally paradoxical nation of Turkey. The year is 2027 and Turkey is about to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its accession to the European Union. This is the age of carbon consciousness: every individual in the EU has a card stipulating individual carbon allowance that must be produced at every CO2 generating transaction. For those who can master the game, who can make the trades between gas price and carbon trading permits, who can play the power factions against each other, there are fortunes to be made. The old Byzantine politics are back. They never went away. The ancient power struggled between Sunni and Shia threatens like a storm: Ankara has watched the Middle East emerge from twenty-five years of sectarian conflict. So far it has stayed aloof. A populist Prime Minister has called a referendum on EU membership. Tensions run high. The army watches, hand on holster. And a Galatasary Champions’ League football game against Arsenal stokes passions even higher. The Dervish House is seven days, six characters, three interconnected story strands, one central common core –the eponymous dervish house, a character in itself—that pins all these players together in a weave of intrigue, conflict, drama and a ticking clock of a thriller. From the Hardcover edition.

Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald''s Desolation Road, this novel 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

This collection of seven stories and a thirty-one thousand word original novella revisits the vivid world of near future India that McDonald so successfully depicted in River of Gods (a BSFA Award winner). Readers will discover a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. This future India has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Includes one Hugo Award nominee and one Hugo Award winner. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Think Bladerunner in the tropics... Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world’s greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling. Three separate stories follow three main characters: Edson is a self-made talent impresario one step up from the slums in a near future São Paulo of astonishing riches and poverty. A chance encounter draws Edson into the dangerous world of illegal quantum computing, but where can you run in a total surveillance society where every move, face, and centavo is constantly tracked? Marcelina is an ambitious Rio TV producer looking for that big reality TV hit to make her name. When her hot idea leads her on the track of a disgraced World Cup soccer goalkeeper, she becomes enmeshed in an ancient conspiracy that threatens not just her life, but her very soul. Father Luis is a Jesuit missionary sent into the maelstrom of 18th-century Brazil to locate and punish a rogue priest who has strayed beyond the articles of his faith and set up a vast empire in the hinterland. In the company of a French geographer and spy, what he finds in the backwaters of the Amazon tries both his faith and the nature of reality itself to the breaking point. Three characters, three stories, three Brazils, all linked together across time, space, and reality in a hugely ambitious story that will challenge the way you think about everything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.