Ian McDonald

Una nueva forma de vivir, mil formas de morir. Primera entrega de la trilogía de ciencia ficción «Luna». LA LUNA QUIERE MATARTE. Y TIENE MIL FORMAS DE CONSEGUIRLO. La gélida acritud del vacío. La let

São Paulo, 2032: Una ciudad con corazón de neón, de infinidad de millones de habitantes, de extraordinaria riqueza y extrema pobreza. Una ciudad vigilada, donde un ladrón de favela puede verse atrapa

São Paulo, 2032: Una ciudad con corazón de neón, de infinidad de millones de habitantes, de extraordinaria riqueza y extrema pobreza. Una ciudad vigilada, donde un ladrón de favela puede verse atrapa

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.

August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India . . . On the eve of Mother India''s hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists to computer-generated soap stars, River of Gods shows a civilization in flux - a river of gods. RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes. This is an SF novel that blew apart the narrow anglo and US-centric concerns of the genre and ushered in a new global consciousness for the genre.

Bouquiniste indépendant, Emmett Leigh déniche un jour un petit recueil de poèmes lors de la liquidation de la librairie d’un confrère. Un recueil, Le Temps fut, qui s’avère vite d’une qualité littéra

Ian Macdonalds RIVER OF GODS, painted a vivid picture of a near future India, 100 years after independence. It revolutionised British SF for a new generation by taking a perspective that was not European or American. BRASYL will do the same for South Americas largest and most vibrant country.A story that begins in the favelas, the slums of Rio, and quickly expands to take in drugs, corruption, and a frightening new technology that allows access to all the multiple worlds that have slipped into existence in other planes everytime we make a decision.This is rich, epic SF that opens our eyes to the world around us and posits mind-blowing alternative sciences. It is a landmark work in modern SF from one of its most respected practitioners.

MARYS GARDEN - 1 -De Rerum Natura - 7 -1. The Great Trees - 9 -2. Tree Orchids - 9 -3. Shower Of Gold - 10 -4. Flamboyant - 10 -5. Frangipani - 11 -6. Almond - 13 -8. Rosemary And Thyme - 14 -10. Rose of Gold - 15 -11. Midnight Rose - 15 -12. Night Choir - 16 -13. Garden Storm - 16 -14. Sea Wind - 17 -15. Grass - 17 -16. Water Lily - 19 -17. Water Hyacinth - 19 -18. Bluebells - 20 -19. The White Chairs - 20 -20. The Orchid House - 21 -21. Ground Orchid - 21 -22. Lilies Of The Field - 22 -23. Fern - 22 -24. Fountain - 23 -25. The Cassias - 23 -26. Solace - 24 -27. Egrets - 24 -28. Bougainvillea - 25 -29. Marigolds - 27 -30. Gardens Glory - 27 -31. Hedges - 28 -32. Orchid Mobile - 28 -33. Sky Flowers - 29 -34. Plumbago - 29 -35. Poinsettia - 30 -36. Crown Of Thorns - 30 -37. Easter Lilies - 31 -38. Cherry Ripe - 31 -39. Pak Choi And Lettuce - 32 -40. Sweet Pepper - 32 -41. The Day Begins With Beauty - 33 -42. Matins - 33 -43. Firecrackers - 34 -44. Paradise - 34 -45. Mussaenda - 35 -46. Venus - 35 -47. Sunset - 36 -48. Moonrise - 38 -49. Hawk at rest - 38 -50. Hawk on High - 39 -51. Lightning - 39 -52. Volcano - 40 -53. Woodsmoke - 40 -54. Death - 41 -55. Flood - 41 -56. The Overwhelming Sea - 42 -57. Remembering - 42 -58. Mongoose - 43 -59. Ants - 43 -60. Butterflies - 44 -61. Bees - 44 -62. Web - 45 -63. Reading - 45 -64. Ash - 46 -65. Sunday - 46 -66. QED - 48 -67. Something Rain Does To Air - 48 -68. Neighbours - 49 -69. Memory Will Not Leave Him There - 49 -70. Trumpet - 50 -71. Night Of The Single Star - 50 -72. The Shriek - 51 -73. Butterfly - 51 -74. Farming Is Different - 52 -75. Blue Beyond Blue - 52 -76. The Smell Of Memory - 53 -77. Blue Sakis - 53 -78. The Orchid Thief - 54 -79. Spur Wings - 54 -80. Frigate Bird - 55 -81. Woodpecker - 55 -82. Zoey Among The Flowers - 56 -83. Miracle - 58 -84. Tree Orchid - 58 -85. Drought - 59 -86. Imagined Garden - 59 -87. The Lightness of Hummingbirds - 60 -88. Jacobs Tree - 60 -89. Pouring rain - 62 -90. Fertilizer - 62 -91. Dusk - 63 -92. Seen Sounds - 63 -93. Cloudless - 64 -94. Sunlight In Rain - 64 -95. The Perfect Flower - 65 -96. Carib Sea - 65 -97. The Facts In This Matter - 66 -98. Strange Beauty - 66 -99. Asphodel - 67 -100. Lifelines - 67 -101. The Green Limes - 68 -102. Hibiscus - 68 -103. Throwing A Hummingbird - 70 -104. Idea Into Word - 72 -105. The Petal Shivers - 73 -Going Away - 75 -ABOUT THE AUTHOR - 76 -Sometimes, before I go to read, when the light from the sky is especially beautiful, I walk, book in hand, in the many spaces of the garden. I look up a hawk soars from branch to branch sun flashing on its wings. I treasure everything I see. At certain times of the year the rush of blood in the flamboyants and at Christmas the fir...

August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India...In the mid twenty-first century, Mother India is all the things she is now - ancient and vibrant, poor yet staggeringly rich. Diverse, violent, beautiful and terrible, thrilling and bewildering. A nation choked with peoples and cultures, riven with almost seismic contrasts and contradictions. Nearly two billion humans crowd the subcontinent and her seething cities - the cyberabads - where timeless culture and the highest of high-technologies meet to spawn new societies, and - possibly - new sentient species. RIVER OF GODS is a book as big and brawling as its subject. Its magnificently diverse array of characters - from genetically enhanced ''Brahmins'' to body-part runners, American scientists to ''Dharma-cops'' (government Artificial Intelligence assassins) - are drawn in interwoven stories towards a cosmic-scale conclusion that will forever change the way we understand ourselves, life, and the universe we inhabit.

Ian McDonald es un autor consolidado en el Reino Unido. Sus obras, que le han valido el aplauso de la crítica y el reconocimiento de los aficionados con las ventas, abordan los principales temas de nuestro tiempo con una marcada preocupacion por los aspectos sociales.El 15 de agosto de 2047, cuando se cumplen cien años del nacimiento de la India, diez extraños ven como sus vidas se cruzan. Un policia, un consejero del Gobierno, un humorista, un actor, un delincuente callejero, un periodista, un investigador y un cientifico estadounidense son algunos de los elegidos que, durante las siguientes semanas, tendran en sus manos el poder de decidir el destino de un pais de mil quinientos millones de personas que veneran a nueve millones de dioses diferentes.

Preface To The Poems1. The Matchbox2. Wild Horses3. The Struggle4. The Starching Iron5. Star Of Love6. Praise Song For Mary7. The Silver Brooch8. Flowers For The Home9. How My Son Was Born10. THE Almond Tree11. What It Was Like Once Forever12. Gifts13. Unwritten Diary14. Routines15. Forgotten In The Dance16. Late Marigolds17. The Coverlet18. Smell Of Basil19. Poetry20. Gone To Get Ribbons21. Toasting The Moon22. Valentine23. Essequibo Anniversary24. How Handsome You Look25. Moon In Old Age26. 35th Anniversary27. River Dancer28. Masterpiece29. Pots30. Acts Of Kindness31. Her Tasks Done Well32. Nightfall33. Zoeys Cake34. The Sound Of Making Butter35. The Lemon Tree36. The Comforter37. Break38. The Arrival Of Happiness39. Camp-Fire40. Forecast41. "I Will Not Let You Die My Love"42. What We Want Of Love43. The Last DanceMARYS GARDENGARDEN POEMSAs golden afternoon transmutes into silver evening and then into velvet darkness fretted by stars I sit to read and think and dream. It is a place of peace and beauty and therefore truths are very likely to be revealed. Where I am is the garden which my wife has created. God bless her and those who have helped her Alston, Kenneth, Andy for what she has quietly achieved over these many years. It is as much a work of art as a painting by a master spirit or a piece of perfect music by a composer connected to the spheres behind the radiant sun and the serenely floating moon. How fortunate I am to step from days of hurly-burly living and the often fractious tedium of coping with ordinary chores and lifes sudden sink-holes into this haven of green peace and flowers in the wind. It is but a step indeed and life is transformed. How many possess such benefit for a life-long time? If you are a believer make a holy sign, if you do not believe then bow in gratitude for the favour great Nature has been pleased to bestow.On evenings when I sit in Marys garden just as it is getting dark a humming-bird comes to hover and suck the honey-dew from the myriad flowers all around. It is never more than one hummingbird, I cant understand why. It cannot be the same humming-bird for more than twenty years but I have come to think it is. Under the skies of darkening red or deepening silver-blue or the last golden light of a perfect day it darts and shivers among the flowers as I watch. It has entranced me all these years. A very few times it has not come and I have been bereft and I have researched my day to see what harm or hurt I might have done. Nothing so beautiful as its brightness in the evening air an incandescent blessing, incomparable intricacies of flight, a shimmering amid the green leaves. I am completely silent in wonder. It is the Spirit of the Garden. Long after I have gone I like to think it will be coming to gleam and hover among the flowers in the evening light. And perhaps our grandchildren, should they be so blessed, will in their turn gaze in wonder at its shimmering beauty.

In the Los Angeles ghetto of Necroville, the yearly celebration of the Night of the Dead - where the dead are resurrected through the miracle of nanotechnology and live their second lives as non-citizens - becomes a journey of discovery and revelation for five individuals on the run from their pasts. With his customary flair for making the bizarre both credible and fascinating, McDonald tosses aside the line of demarcation between living and dead in a story that confronts the central quandary of human existence: the essence of non-being.

LA FAMILIA DE CARIAD CORCORAN ACABA DE AMPLIARSE AL INCLUIR A LA NUEVA PAREJA DE SU MADRE Y A SU HIJA, UNA CHICA DE LA EDAD DE CARIAD QUE ES TODO LO QUE ELLA JAMAS SERA: ALTA, GUAPA Y SEGURA DE SI

2110. Sur une Lune où tout se vend, où tout s’achète, jusqu’aux sels minéraux contenus dans votre urine, et où la mort peut survenir à peu près à n’importe quel moment, Adrianna Corta est la dirigean

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Découvrez Brage, le label de formats courts des éditions Bragelonne ! Dans la nouvelle magnifique que nous présentons ici, qui contient suffisamment didées éblouissantes pour remplir un roman de huit cents pages, McDonald nous fait comprendre quune guerre totale entre deux civilisations interstellaires rivales serait lente, atroce et vaste, et, enfin - totale. Sans laisser le moindre refuge au sein de la Galaxie, voire dans tout lUnivers, pour le camp des perdants. Lauteur britannique Ian McDonald est un ecrivain ambitieux et audacieux, dote dun talent impressionnant et dune palette de styles tres varies. Sa premiere nouvelle fut publiee en 1982, et depuis ses fictions sont souvent apparues dans Interzone, Asimovs Science Fiction, New Worlds et autres publications. Il fut nomine pour le prix John W. Campbell - destine aux nouveaux ecrivains de SF - en 1985, et il gagna le prix Locus dans la categorie Meilleur premier roman en 1989 pour Desolation Road. Sa nouvelle Tendeleo 1 fut laureate du prix Theodore Sturgeon en 2001. Il remporta egalement le Philip K. Dick Award en 1992 pour le roman de Fantasy, Roi du matin, reine du jour. Son dernier roman, Brasyl2, lui valut le prix de la British Science Fiction Association en 2008. Ses autres livres comprennent les romans Necroville, Out on Blue Six, Hearts, Hands and Voices, Sacrifice of Fools, Chaga, Kirinya et River of Gods, ainsi que deux recueils de nouvelles, Empire Dreams (traduit sous ce titre en français) et Speaking In Tongues. Un nouveau recueil, Cyberabad Days, qui rassemble ses nouvelles liees a lInde futuriste decrite dans River of Gods, vient de paraitre. Ne en 1960 a Manchester en Angleterre, McDonald vit depuis longtemps en Irlande du Nord. Il reside et travaille aujourdhui a Belfast.

The Moon wants to kill you. It might not get there first.Luna is a gripping thriller about five corporate families caught in a bitter battle for supremacy in the harsh environment of the moon. Its very easy to die on the moon, but with its vast mineral wealth its also easy to make your fortune. Following the fortunes of a handful of disparate characters, from one of the lowliest workers on the moon to the heads of one of the most powerful families, LUNA provides a vast mosaic of life on this airless and terrifying new home for humanity.This is SF that will be perfect for fans of Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken Macleod alike.McDonald is one of the best world builders Ive ever read - Tamora PierceReaders are being swept away by LUNA: NEW MOON:Its a great epic read. Its also filled to the brim with imminently plausible science. Not a single thing was out of place- Goodreads reviewer, Luna: New Moon gets an undisputed 5* from me. It is a perfect sci-fi - Goodreads reviewer, Masterful science fiction and highly recommended - Goodreads reviewer, What. A. Book . . . it leaves you wanting more - and promises to be able to sustain more - Goodreads reviewer, Ian McDonald never fails to disappoint, and he never repeats himself . . . This book is not boring. It has no weaknesses and takes no prisoners - Goodreads reviewer, The sci-fi of my dreams, it hit all of my buttons. This family! The moon! World building! - Goodreads reviewer,