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"The sheer number of ideas and plotlines can sometimes make McDonald's novels seems dense, but the stories here are sharp, focused and witty." -- Jonathan Wright BBC FOCUS "McDonald's partitioned India of 2047, which he returns to in the seven stories in Cyberabad Days, is a heaving, complexly imagined society that is, helplessly of course, the work of a westerner." -- Thom Hutchinson DEATHRAY "McDonald's India engulfs you with an overwhelming, perfumed, stinky embrace. A hugely impressive collection. Seven nifty, witty stories." -- Dave Langford SFX "He considers India's political future as a rising superpower and the cold realities of ethnic and religious diversity turning hot and divisive, with obvious analogies to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. As with all short-story collections, some work better than others, but taken as whole, this is a fascinating read, rich in texture, imagery and language." -- Steve White DREAMWATCH TOTAL SCI FI "All in all, Cyberabad Days is a terrific book and a satisfying return to the world of River of Gods. Ian McDonald is a genius, pure and simple." PAT'S FANTASY HOTLIST "McDonald excels at conveying, in a gorgeous melange of sensory impressions, an India transformed by AIs, nanotech, robots and cybernetics: the subcontinent is chaotic and lurid, shot through with devotion to eternal Hindu gods and divided by internecine conflict. McDonald gives a refreshing take on the future from a non-western viewpoint." -- Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN "McDonald gives sci-fi its sense of wonder back, and creates a landscape in which nothing can be taken for granted." -- Roz Kaveney THE INDEPENDENT "One of the great pleasures of science fiction is the escape it offers readers from commonplace, everyday surroundings into strange new worlds, and nobody does it better than Ian McDonald. Although Cyberabad Days is set on Earth, and only a few decades into the future, McDonald's vision of a newly repartitioned India, warring over water and at the cutting edge of technologies based on artificial intelligence, is practically hallucinogenic in style and intensity." -- Lisa Tuttle THE TIMES

Ian McDonald was born in Manchester in 1960. His family moved to Northern Ireland 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.