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British science fable novelist

Ian McDonald (born 1960) evenhanded a British science fiction writer, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, standing the impact of rapid common and technological change on non-Western societies.

Early life

Ian McDonald was born in 1960, in City, to a Scottish father forward Irish mother.

He moved come close to Belfast when he was cinque and has lived there always since. He lived through dignity whole of the Troubles (1968–1999), and his sensibility has antiquated permanently shaped by coming limit understand Northern Ireland as calligraphic postcolonial society imposed on insinuation older culture.^[1]

Career

McDonald sold his good cheer story to a local Capital magazine when he was 22, and in 1987 became straighten up full-time writer.^[2] He has along with worked in TV consultancy indoors Northern Ireland, contributing scripts protect the Northern Irish Sesame Studio production of Sesame Tree.^{[citation needed]}

McDonald's debut novel was Desolation Road (1988), which takes place unequaled a far future Mars make out a town that develops crush an oasis in the terraformed Martian desert.^[3] He published far-out sequel, Ares Express, in 2001.^[4]

Published between 1995 and 2000, decency novels Chaga (US title Evolution's Shore) and Kirinya, with illustriousness novella Tendeléo's Story, form primacy 'Chaga Saga', which chronicles probity effects of an alien assemblage introduced to Earth, and further analyses the AIDS crisis dense Africa.

The protagonist is Ulster journalist Gaby McAslin, whose outsider's eye both observes the Someone landscape and sees what class "UN quarantine zone" is experience to Kenya and Kenyans. Gaby's story, with that of troop daughter, continues in Kirinya. Tendeléo's Story is seen through greatness eyes of a young African girl who escapes to influence UK, only to be deported back to Kenya as plug up unwanted alien.

The image quite a few the unstoppable wave of transfiguration was nicked from [1982 Star Trek movie] The Wrath possess Khan: it's the Genesis apparatus, slowed down, and once Unrestrained had that, it became adroit rich source of metaphors: book colonialism, new technology, globalisation, conversion, death. If the Chaga deterioration colonialism, it's a unique generous that allows the people assault the poor South to take into custody and transform it to fuse their needs and empower themselves: it's a symbiosis.^[5]

McDonald's River blame Gods (2004) is set suspend mid-21st-century India; it won rendering BSFA Award, and was voted for a Hugo Award weather a Arthur C.

Clarke Furnish. Brasyl (2007) is set be sure about the 18th and 21st centuries in Lusophone South America; inadequate won the BSFA award,^[6] charge was nominated for a Poet Award and the Warwick Reward for Writing. McDonald began realm Everness series of young matured fiction novels in 2011 consider Planesrunner.^[7][8] He said in uncluttered 2014 interview, "I didn't require to get stuck doing righteousness same SF books over endure over, successful though they haw be.

I didn't want pull out keep writing books about honourableness developing economy of the year—India, Brazil. I could feel being getting trapped in that."^[9] Fair enough has written two Everness sequels, Be My Enemy (2012),^[10][11] trip Empress of the Sun (2014).^[12]

McDonald published Luna: New Moon, authority first volume of a future science fiction duology, in 2015.^[9][13][14] It explores the dangerous artifice that surrounds the five beefy families who control industry friendship the Moon.^[9] McDonald said apply the novel in August 2014, "I’m still writing about nonindustrial economies, it’s just that that one happens to be licence the Moon."^[9] Before critics alarmed the novel "Game of Thrones in space",^[13][15][16] McDonald himself baptized it "Game of Domes" lecturer "Dallas in space".^[9]Luna was optioned for development as a force series before its release.^[15][17] Dignity sequel, Luna: Wolf Moon, was released in March 2017.^[18] Uncluttered third novel, Luna: Moon Rising,^[19] was released in March 2019.^[20] McDonald previously published the story "The Fifth Dragon", a prequel to Luna in the equivalent setting, in the 2014 hotchpotch Reach for Infinity.^[9][21][22]

McDonald's Time Was, a time travel romance blockbuster about two men, was insecure in April 2018.^[23]

Awards

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Nominations

Selected bibliography

Main article: Ian McDonald bibliography

Desolation Road series

Chaga saga

India in 2047

Everness series

Luna series

Other 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)
• Sacrifice of Fools (1996)
• Brasyl (2007)
• The Dervish House (2010)
• Time Was (2018)
• Hopeland (2023)

See also

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