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List of works by or about the British author Ian McDonald.


Novels


''Desolation Road'' series

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Desolation Road ''Desolation Road'' is a 1988 science fiction novel written by Ian McDonald. It was McDonald's first published novel. The plot takes place on a far future Mars in a town that develops around an oasis in the terraformed Martian desert. McDonald ...
'' (1988) * ''The Luncheonette of Lost Dreams'' (1992) (short story) * ''Ares Express'' (2001)


''Chaga'' saga

* "Toward Kilimanjaro" (1990) (short story) * ''
Chaga The Chaga or Chagga (Swahili language: WaChaga) are Bantu-speaking indigenous Africans and the third-largest ethnic group in Tanzania. They traditionally live on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and eastern Mount Meru in both Kilimanjaro Regi ...
'' (1995, US: ''Evolution's Shore'') * ''
Kirinya List of works by or about the British author Ian McDonald. Novels ''Desolation Road'' series * '' Desolation Road'' (1988) * ''The Luncheonette of Lost Dreams'' (1992) (short story) * ''Ares Express'' (2001) ''Chaga'' saga * "Toward Kilimanjar ...
'' (1997) * "Tendeléo's Story" (2000) (short story)


''India in 2047''

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River of Gods ''River of Gods'' is a 2004 science fiction novel by British writer Ian McDonald. It depicts a futuristic India in 2047, a century after its independence from Britain, characterized both by ancient traditions and advanced technologies such as ...
'' (2004) * ''The Djinn's Wife'' (2006) in ''
Asimov's Science Fiction ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publication ...
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Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of ...
winner


''Everness'' series

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Planesrunner ''Planesrunner'' is a 2011 young adult science fiction novel by British author Ian McDonald, and the first installment of the ''Everness'' series. The book follows British teenager Everett Singh as he travels between alternate universes in sea ...
'' (2011) * ''
Be My Enemy ''Planesrunner'' is a 2011 young adult science fiction novel by British author Ian McDonald, and the first installment of the ''Everness'' series. The book follows British teenager Everett Singh as he travels between alternate universes in sear ...
'' (2012) * '' Empress of the Sun'' (2014)


''Luna'' series

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New Moon In astronomy, the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude. At this phase, the lunar disk is not visible to the naked eye, except when it is silhouetted against the Sun during a solar eclipse. ...
'' (2015) -
BSFA award The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction. Nominees and winners are chosen based on a vote of BSFA members. More recently, m ...
nominee, winner of the
Gaylactic Spectrum Award The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards are given to works of science fiction, fantasy and horror that explore LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) topics in a positive way. Established in 1998, the awards were initially presented by the Gaylactic ...
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Wolf Moon The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon (when the ecliptic longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180°). This means ...
'' (2017) * ''
Moon Rising The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
'' (2019)


Standalone novels

* '' Out on Blue Six'' (1989) * ''King of Morning, Queen of Day'' (1991) * ''Hearts, Hands and Voices'' (1992, US: ''The Broken Land'') * ''Necroville'' (1994, US: ''Terminal Café'') * ''Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone'' (1994) - 2013 e-book includes ''The Tear'' * ''Sacrifice of Fools'' (1996) * ''
Brasyl ''Brasyl'' is a 2007 novel by British author Ian McDonald. It was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Awards in the best novel category. In 2008 it was nominated for, and made the longlist of, the £50,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. It was also nominat ...
'' (2007) –
Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...
nominee, winner of the
BSFA award The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction. Nominees and winners are chosen based on a vote of BSFA members. More recently, m ...
, Nominated for the £50,000
Warwick Prize for Writing The Warwick Prize for Writing was an international literary prize, worth £25,000, that was given biennially for writing excellence in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that changes with every award. It was launched by the Univ ...
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The Dervish House ''The Dervish House'' is a 2010 science fiction novel by British author Ian McDonald. The novel was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2011, and won the BSFA Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in the same year. It was a n ...
'' (2010) – Hugo Award nominee, Clarke Award nominee, winner of the BSFA award * ''
Time Was ''Time Was'' is a documentary film, documentary television series that premiered on HBO on November 11, 1979. It was hosted by Dick Cavett with each program looking at one decade from the past starting from the 1920s up to the 1970s. The historic ...
'' (2018)


Graphic novels

* ''Kling Klang Klatch'' (1992) (graphic novel, illustrated by David Lyttleton)


Short fiction


Collections

* ''Empire Dreams'' (1988) * ''Speaking in Tongues'' (1992) * ''Cyberabad Days'' (2009) * ''The Best of Ian McDonald'' (2015)


Short stories

* "The Islands of the Dead" (1982) * "The Catharine Wheel" (Our Lady of Tharsis) (1984) (also published as "The Catharine Wheel") * "Christian" (1984) * "Scenes from a Shadowplay" (1985) * "Empire Dreams" (1985)" (also appeared as: Empire Dreams; Ground Control to Major Tom) * "Approaching Perpendicular" (1988) * "Radio Marrakech" (1988) * "The Island of the Dead" (1988) * "Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh" (1988) * "Visits to Remarkable Cities" (1988) * "Vivaldi" (1988) * "King of Morning, Queen of Day" (1988) * "Gardenias" (1989) * "Rainmaker Cometh" (1989) * "Listen" (1989) * "Atomic Avenue" (1990) * "Speaking in Tongues" (1990) * "Winning" (1990) * "Fronds" (1990) * "Toward Kilimanjaro" 'Chaga''(1990) * "Floating Dogs" (1991) * "King of Morning, Queen of Day" (excerpt)" (1991) * "Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" (1991) * "Brody Loved the Masai Woman" (1992) * "Innocents" (1992) * "The Best and the Rest of James Joyce" (1992) * "Fat Tuesday" (1992) * "Big Chair" (1992) * "Legitimate Targets" (1993) * "Some Strange Desire" (1993) * "The Undifferentiated Object of Desire" (1993) * "Blue Motel" (1994) * "Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone" (1994) * "Steam" (1995) * "The Time Garden: A Faery Story" (1995) * "Frooks" (1995) * "Faithful" (1996) * "Islington" (1996) * "Recording Angel" (1996) * "The Further Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Gulf War" (1996) * "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" (1997) * "The Five O'Clock Whistle" (1997) * "After Kerry" (1997) * "The Days of Solomon Gursky" (1998) * "Breakfast on the Moon, with Georges" (1999) * "Tendeléo's Story" 'Chaga''(2000) * "The Twenty Five Mile High Club" (2002) * "The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars" (2002) * "The Hidden Place" (2002) * "Written in the Stars" (2005) in ''
Constellations A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object. The origins of the earliest constellation ...
'' * "The Little Goddess" (2005) * "Kyle Meets the River" (2006) * "Sanjeev and Robotwallah" (2007) * "Verthandi's Ring" (2007) * "The Tear" (2008) * " Ghost Samba (2008) * "The Dust Assassin" (2008) * "An Eligible Boy" (2008) * "Vishnu at the Cat Circus" (2009) * "A Little School" (2009) * "Tonight We Fly" (2010) * "Digging" (2011) * "A Smart Well-Mannered Uprising of the Dead" (2011) * "Driftings" (2013) * "The Queen of the Night's Aria" (2013) in ''
Old Mars ''Old Mars'' is a "retro Mars science fiction"-themed anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, published on October 8, 2013. According to the publisher Tor Books, the collection celebrates the "Golden Age of Science Fiction", an ...
'' (anthology) * "The Revolution Will Not Be Refrigerated" (2013) in ''Twelve Tomorrows 2014'' (anthology) * "Nanonauts! In Battle with Tiny Death-subs!" (2014) in ''Robot Uprisings'' (anthology) * "
The Fifth Dragon ''Luna: New Moon'' is a 2015 science fiction novel by British author Ian McDonald. It is the first of a three-part series that also includes '' Luna: Wolf Moon'' and '' Luna: Moon Rising''. The novel explores the dangerous intrigue that surroun ...
" (2014, novelette) in ''
Reach for Infinity ''Reach for Infinity'' is a 2014 science fiction anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan. In 2015, it was nominated for a Locus Award for Best Anthology, an Aurealis Award for Best Anthology and the Philip K. Dick Award. Contents * "Introduction" ( ...
'' (anthology)Related to the ''Luna'' series of novels. * "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" (2015) in ''
Old Venus ''Old Venus'' is a "retro Venus science fiction"-themed anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, that was published on March 3, 2015. All of the stories are set on the planet Venus as styled in the pre-space probe pulp magazin ...
'' (anthology)


Critical studies and reviews of McDonald's work

* Clute, John, & Nicholls, Peter (eds). ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993. . * Lennard, John, ''Ian McDonald: Chaga / Evolution's Shore''. Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007. * Reviews ''Planesrunner''.


References


External links

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