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River of Gods

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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.

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India 2047
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597 pages
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English
Publisher

Pyr
Publication date

March 1, 2006
Dimensions

6.46 x 1.88 x 9.26 inches
ISBN-10

1591024366
ISBN-13

978-1591024361

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"A staggering achievement, brilliantly imagined and endlessly surprising...a brave, brilliant and wonderful novel." -- Christopher Priest, Guardian

"Hugely adventurous and entertaining, sumptuously inventive and full of heart...likely to rank as Ian McDonald s best creative achievement." -- Nick Gevers, Locus

"I will read anything that man writes he is the most underappreciated genius working in the field today." -- Cory Doctorow, author of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; coeditor, boingboing.net

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Nominated for both the Hugo and the Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pyr
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2006
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 597 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591024366
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591024361
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.46 x 1.88 x 9.26 inches
Book 1 of 2 ‏ : ‎ India 2047
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Ian McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He used to live in a house built in the back garden of C. S. Lewis’s childhood home but has since moved to central Belfast, where he now lives, exploring interests like cats, contemplative religion, bonsai, bicycles, and comic-book collecting. He debuted in 1982 with the short story “The Island of the Dead” in the short-lived British magazine Extro. His first novel, Desolation Road, was published in 1988. Other works include King of Morning, Queen of Day (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award), River of Gods, The Dervish House (both of which won British Science Fiction Association Awards), the graphic novel Kling Klang Klatch, and many more. His most recent publications are Planesrunner and Be My Enemy, books one and two of the Everness series for younger readers (though older readers will find them a ball of fun, as well). Ian worked in television development for sixteen years, but is glad to be back to writing fulltime.

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