Cyberabad Days
By (Author) Ian McDonald
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
1st February 2010
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Short-listed for Philip K. Dick Award 2010 (UK)
Paperback
320
Width 161mm, Height 199mm, Spine 22mm
266g
The world: 'Cyberabad' is the India of 2047, 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 out-number females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas.
Cyberabad is a collection of 7 stories: The Little Goddess. The Djinn's Wife. The Dust Assassin. Jasbir and Sujay go Shaadi. Sanjeev and Robotwallah. Kyle meets the River. Vishnu at the Cat Circus.Ian McDonald was born in Manchester in 1960. His family moved to Northern Island in 1965. He now lives in Belfast and works in TV production. The author of many previous novels including the groundbreaking Chaga books set in Africa Ian McDonald has long been at the cutting edge of SF. RIVER OF GODS won the BSFA award in 2005.