Ian McDonald on our digital doppelgangers
futurismic.com 2/13/2009 — The BBC is running an essay by Ian McDonald , author of Brasyl and River of Gods (and many more sf novels). Despite being an deliberate laggard on social network and metaverse platforms himself, McDonald suggests that the science fictional ...

Book Review: Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
otter.covblogs.com 2/11/2009 — # Author: Ian McDonald # Paperback: 330 pages # Publisher: Pyr # Publication Date: February 24, 2009 # ISBN-10: 1591026997 # ISBN-13: 978-1591026990 # Author Website: Cyberabad At first, I didn't think I was going to enjoy reading Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald. I think I can boil ...

REVIEW: Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
sfsignal.com 8/12/2009 — REVIEW SUMMARY : I was expecting a traditional sf story, but got Peyton Place . MY RATING : BRIEF SYNOPSIS : The story of a Martian town and its residents. But mostly its residents. MY REVIEW : PROS : Imaginative; interesting ...

Reading between the mythlines: Ian McDonald’s King of Morning, Queen of Day
tor.com 6/1/2009 — King of Morning, Queen of Day was first published in 1991, and it won the Philip K. Dick award for best novel first published in paperback. Its French translation has just won the prestigious Prix Imaginales for best translated novel. I’ve been ...

BBC NEWS | Technology | The Tech Lab: Ian McDonald
news.bbc.co.uk 2/12/2009 — Science-fiction writer Ian McDonald reflects on the digital doppelgangers that our growing use of the net is bringing about. I'm in bits. Pieces of me are all over the place. My history is on Wikipedia, my photos are on Flickr, my petty rants are on ...

Performing Palpatine: The Other Ian
starwars.com 10/10/2009 — Most fans are familiar with Ian McDiarmid's captivating performance as Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious from the filmed Star Wars saga, but some may not be aware that a second Ian -- Ian Abercrombie -- has more than effectively carried the role ...

Ares Express (9781616141974): Ian McDonald: Books
amazon.com 10/26/2009 — A Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colourful, witty SF novel; Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of ...

Should Hollywood turn Ian McDonald’s 1988 novel Desolation Road into a film?
booksonmars.blogspot.com 8/18/2009 — Tired of all the damned Hollywood remakes, the geeks over at the Den of Geek have drawn up a list of the “Top 10 potential sci-fi franchises Hollywood ignored.” The novel Desolation Road (1988, Pyr 2009), by British SF author Ian McDonald, is #6 on ...

An Introduction to Cyberbad Days
pyrsf.blogspot.com 2/18/2009 — Like an establishment known for its fine wine, Mr Ian McDonald needs no bush hung in front of his enterprise to attract eager customers, but when hero editor Lou Anders asked me to write an introduction to Ian's collection of short stories,  ...

Go behind the Bollywood future of Cyberabad Days with Ian McDonald
scifiwire.com 2/26/2009 — British SF writer Ian McDonald's new story-cycle, Cyberabad Days , is set in the same vibrant, turbulent, crisis-ridden 2040s India as his acclaimed novel River of Gods (2004). McDonald says, "When I finished River , I realized that there ...