Ian Mcdonald

Science fiction happens everywhere This is why it's about time we reloaded the future we've known so far with visions from a much wider selection of voices, languages and backgrounds: it's about time we moved from the old "Sense of Wonder" to the new "Sense of Wander" - a useful concept that will allow us to discover the many hidden gems just waiting to be translated from languages other than English and cultures others than the Western one. This second collection of short stories published on Future Fiction features 15 stories from 13 countries and translations from 5 different languages, including authors such as Vandana Singh, Chen Qiufan, Ian McDonald, K. A. Teryna, Anil Menon, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Stamatis Stamatopolous, Seyong Jeong, Martha Riva Palacio Obon, Renan Bernardo, Clifton Gachagua, Santiago Belluco, Hassan Abdulrazzak, and Morgan Swim. The translations are made by Stephanie Polakis (Greek), Alex Shvartsman (Russian), Emily Jin (Chinese), Sophie Bowman (Korean), Will Morningstar (Spanish). Table of ContentsIntroduction by Francesco VersoThe Guile by Ian McDonald (UK) The Colour that Defines Me by Stamatis Stamatopolous (Greece)Medusa by K. A. Teryna (Russia)The Ancestral Temple in a Box by Chen Qiufan (China)The Flowering by Seyong Jeong (South Korea)Indra's Web by Vandana Singh (India) Biography of Algae by Martha Riva Palacio Obon (Mexico)The Man Without Quintessence by Anil Menon (India)Anticipation of Hollowness by Renan Bernardo (Brasil)To Gaze at the Sun by Clifton Gachagua (Nigeria)The Standard of Ur by Hassan Abdulrazzak (Irak)The State Machine by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (Sri Lanka) Sunset Blues by Wanini Kimemiah (Kenya)Into the Biosafety Disposal Forest by Santiago Belluco (Brasil)Copies Without Originals by Morgan Swim (U. S. A.)

It all started thirty years ago on Mars. By the time it was finished, the town of Desolation Road had been witness to every abnormality yet seen on the Red Planet. From Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational 'Stravaganza, to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar, nowhere else boasts such sights for the wandering lucky traveller. Its inhabitants are just as storied. From Dr. Alimantando -- founder and resident genius -- to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother with a child grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo whose way with machines bordered on the mystic, to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with - and married - the same woman. There's nowhere quite like Desolation Road. Once you go there, you may never be the same again.

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR SCIENCE FICTION The continuing saga of the Five Dragons, Ian McDonald's fast-paced, intricately plotted space opera pitched as Game of Thrones meets The Expanse A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons--five families that control the Moon's leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain--marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of the Moon. The only person who can stop him is a brilliant lunar lawyer, his sister, Ariel. Witness the Dragons' final battle for absolute sovereignty in Ian McDonald's heart-stopping finale to the Luna trilogy. Luna 1. Luna: New Moon2. Luna: Wolf Moon3. Luna: Moon Rising

Etsitkö jännitystä, uusia näkökulmia tai rentouttavaa lukuelämystä? Tutustu kirjakategorioihimme ja löydä seuraava suosikkikirjasi.

Ian McDonald has written even when the poetry is not specifically about Mary. Yet many poems have been directly inspired by her and this book contains them. When he got to know Mary he realized that she made life a lot more worth while. Since that time he has written poems for her, about her, with her in mind and situations in which her presence was deeply felt. He has collected such poems in this book for her birthday as a mark of love and honour for a beautiful and loving person who has anchored and protected and enhanced his life.

August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India ... On the eve of Mother India's hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists to computer-generated soap stars, River of Gods shows a civilization in flux - a river of gods. RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes. This is an SF novel that blew apart the narrow anglo and US-centric concerns of the genre and ushered in a new global consciousness for the genre.

McDonald's epic SF trilogy of corporate greed and family betrayal in the lethal setting of the moon reaches its triumphant conclusion. Acclaimed as one of the most exciting and important SF series of the decade, this is perfect SF for fans of Gravity and The Martian looking for a large scale space-based epic.

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.

Luna: Wolf Moon continues Ian McDonald's saga of the Five Dragons. 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 from 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 Series1. Luna: New Moon2. Luna: Wolf Moon

The continuing saga of the Five Dragons, Ian McDonald's fast-paced, intricately plotted space opera pitched as Game of Thrones meets The ExpanseA hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons-five families that control the Moon's leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain-marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Corta rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of the Moon. The only person who can stop him is a brilliant lunar lawyer: his sister, Ariel. Witness the Dragons' final battle for absolute sovereignty in Ian McDonald's heart-stopping finale to the Luna trilogy.

Two of Guyana's most gifted writers have combined their far-reaching prowess and literary talent to arrive at this collection of poems that warms the heart and stirs the imagination with their diverse mix of colourful characters and poignant stories. From Berbice to Essequibo, and Demerara in-between, these poems traverse the geography of Guyana with startling insights into its people and culture. These poems will remain with the reader long after the book is finished.

From the vantage point of later middle life, Ian McDonald's collection looks into the heart of time passing: the coming death of aging parents, the old men, the sight of 'my own lines of age' and the loss of pleasure in the glittering carnival of the senses. There are joys in the rich blessings of the arrival of a new child coming unexpected at this stage of life, but those joys are made more piquant by the inescapable sense of the ephemeral. Poems of moving domestic intimacy and humor ('To alarm their fathers half to death/New-born babies hold their breath'), valedictory requiems for the characters who have given Georgetown life its flavor and regret for the country's loss of civility during its darkest recent years and songs in praise of nature are all part of a vision which looks into the darkness but says, 'Yes, it is as you say, / But let us get just one thing straight: / There is beauty in the world/ ... And the star-tree blossoms in the night, /Night that will have an end.'

Produced to honour the centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's birth, this anthology acts as a fund raiser for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Original SF stories of precisely 2001 words from some of the biggest names in science fiction, including 10 winners of the Clarke Award and 13 authors who have been shortlisted, as well as non-fiction from thrice-winner China Mi ville and former judge Neil Gaiman. Contents: Introduction Golgotha - Dave Hutchinson The Monoliths of Mars - Paul McAuley Murmuration - Jane Rogers Ouroboros - Ian R MacLeod The Escape Hatch - Matthew De Abaitua Childhood's Friend - Rachel Pollack Takes from the White Hart - Bruce Sterling Your Death, Your Way, 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed - Emma Newman Distraction - Gwyneth Jones Dancers - Allen Stroud Entropy War - Yoon Ha Lee The Ontologist - Liz Williams Waiting in the Sky - Tom Hunter The Collectors - Adrian Tchaikovsky I Saw Three Ships - Phillip Mann Before They Left - Colin Greenland Drawn From the Eye - Jeff Noon Roads of Silver, Paths of Gold - Emmi It ranta The Fugue - Stephanie Holman Memories of a Table - Chris Beckett Child of Ours - Claire North Would-Be A. I., Tell Us a Tale #241: Sell 'em Back in Time by Hali Hallison - Ian Watson Last Contact - Becky Chambers The Final Fable - Ian Whates Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae - Ian McDonald Child - Adam Roberts Providence - Alastair Reynolds 2001: A Space Prosthesis - The Extensions of Man - Andrew M. Butler (non-fiction) On Judging The Clarke Award - Neil Gaiman (non-fiction) Once More on the 3rd Law - China Mi ville (non-fiction)

The BSFA and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author returns with the second part of his stunning moon colonisation epic, perfect for fans of THE MARTIAN and RED MARS.

In Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon, the scions of a falling house must navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family's status in the Moon's vicious political atmosphere. 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. Luna 1. Luna: New Moon2. Luna: Wolf Moon3. Luna: Moon Rising