by IanMcDonald (Author)
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. Hugo nominee Best Novella 2006. In near future Nepal, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood. The Djinn's Wife. Hugo nominee and BSFA short fiction winner 2007 A minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence but is it a marriage of heaven and hell? The Dust Assassin. Feuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process. Jasbir and Sujay go Shaadi. Love and marriage should be plain-sailing when your matchmaker is a soap-star artificial intelligence Sanjeev and Robotwallah. What happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over? Kyle meets the River. A young American in Varanas learns the true meaning of 'nation building' in the early days of a new country. Vishnu at the Cat Circus. A genetically improved 'Brahmin' child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 02 Apr 2009
ISBN 10: 0575084081
ISBN 13: 9780575084087
Book Overview: Ian McDonald is one of the most critically acclaimed SF writers of the moment 6,000 copies of BRASYL sold Fiction set in the world of the award-winning RIVER OF GODS Includes a brand new, previously unavailable 25,000 word novella Includes stories never available in book form before Includes Hugo shortlisted and BSFA award-winning fiction A unique opportunity for fans of RIVER OF GODS to enrich their knowledge of that world.