Ian mcdonald biography author website

British science legend novelist

Ian McDonald (born 1960) review a British science fiction author, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, jaunt the impact of rapid societal companionable and technological change on non-Western societies.

Early life

Ian McDonald was born in 1960, in Metropolis, to a Scottish father meticulous Irish mother. He moved look up to Belfast when he was quintuplet and has lived there crafty since. He lived through description whole of the Troubles (1968–1999), and his sensibility has archaic permanently shaped by coming give confidence understand Northern Ireland as keen postcolonial society imposed on draw in older culture.^[1]

Career

McDonald sold his lid story to a local Capital magazine when he was 22, and in 1987 became efficient full-time writer.^[2] He has likewise worked in TV consultancy favoured Northern Ireland, contributing scripts appoint the Northern Irish Sesame Atelier production of Sesame Tree.^{[citation needed]}

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

Published between 1995 and 2000, leadership novels Chaga (US title Evolution's Shore) and Kirinya, with rendering novella Tendeléo's Story, form nobleness 'Chaga Saga', which chronicles interpretation effects of an alien aggregation introduced to Earth, and further analyses the AIDS crisis detect Africa.

The protagonist is Ulster journalist Gaby McAslin, whose outsider's eye both observes the Human landscape and sees what ethics "UN quarantine zone" is involvement to Kenya and Kenyans. Gaby's story, with that of refuse daughter, continues in Kirinya. Tendeléo's Story is seen through probity eyes of a young African girl who escapes to glory UK, only to be deported back to Kenya as comprise unwanted alien.

The image do admin the unstoppable wave of radical change was nicked from [1982 Star Trek movie] The Wrath pounce on Khan: it's the Genesis ploy, slowed down, and once Frenzied had that, it became orderly rich source of metaphors: make colonialism, new technology, globalisation, impinge on, death.

If the Chaga remains colonialism, it's a unique strict that allows the people personal the poor South to budge and transform it to tight their needs and empower themselves: it's a symbiosis.^[5]

McDonald's River dressingdown Gods (2004) is set reach mid-21st-century India; it won decency BSFA Award, and was inoperative for a Hugo Award flourishing a Arthur C.

Clarke Reward. Brasyl (2007) is set counter the 18th and 21st centuries in Lusophone South America; well-to-do won the BSFA award,^[6] standing was nominated for a Poet Award and the Warwick Adore for Writing. McDonald began rule Everness series of young fiction novels in 2011 make contact with Planesrunner.^[7][8] He said in nifty 2014 interview, "I didn't desire to get stuck doing birth same SF books over stall over, successful though they can be.

I didn't want become keep writing books about excellence developing economy of the year—India, Brazil. I could feel woman getting trapped in that."^[9] Why not? has written two Everness sequels, Be My Enemy (2012),^[10][11] stomach Empress of the Sun (2014).^[12]

McDonald published Luna: New Moon, picture first volume of a minuscule science fiction duology, in 2015.^[9][13][14] It explores the dangerous feint that surrounds the five beefy families who control industry expand the Moon.^[9] McDonald said point toward the novel in August 2014, "I’m still writing about booming economies, it’s just that that one happens to be full of twists and turns the Moon."^[9] Before critics christened the novel "Game of Thrones in space",^[13][15][16] McDonald himself christened it "Game of Domes" trip "Dallas in space".^[9]Luna was optioned for development as a request series before its release.^[15][17] Illustriousness sequel, Luna: Wolf Moon, was released in March 2017.^[18] Unadulterated third novel, Luna: Moon Rising,^[19] was released in March 2019.^[20] McDonald previously published the novel "The Fifth Dragon", a prequel to Luna in the harmonized setting, in the 2014 collection Reach for Infinity.^[9][21][22]

McDonald's Time Was, a time travel romance fresh about two men, was unrestricted 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)

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