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CYBERABAD DAYS.
London: Victor Gollancz, 2009. Octavo, boards. First edition. A collection of stories set in the same universe as McDonald's novel RIVER OF GODS (2004), including "The Djinn's Wife." Runner up for the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award.
DESOLATION ROAD.
New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1988, i.e. 1987]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof of the first U.S. edition. The author's first novel. "Vivid imagery gives distinction to this tale, in which a large cast of characters indulges in power struggles on the planet Mars. An unusual and poetic first novel ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 96-7. Winner of the 1989 Locus award for best first novel. Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-742].
EVOLUTION'S SHORE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1995]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback edition. Published in the UK as CHAGA (1995). After a meteorite hits the earth near Mt. Kilimanjaro a alien substance appears and grows, "Chaga," which absorbs organic matter. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-741].
HEARTS HANDS AND VOICES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition.
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KING OF MORNING, QUEEN OF DAY [book and advance page proof copy, two volumes].
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1991], Octavo, two books, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Winner of the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award. Fantasy novel of three multi-generational women.
RIVER OF GODS.
New York: PYR, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. "There is an abiding sense in McDonald's more recent work that the futures we already inhabit in the early twenty-first century are not only all-encompassing, but may also mark the end of the dominance of the old First World. This is perhaps most explicit in RIVER OF GODS (2004), set in a complexly depicted loose confederation of states that by the year 2047 (the hundredth anniversary of independence) have exfoliated out of India. The great subcontinent -- bedevilled by the inexorable crises of climate change, and intensely implicated in the development of AI technologies beyond limits "permitted" by a conservative America attempting vainly to defend its old prerogatives -- becomes here an immensely detailed and plausible arena, a vision of near future that seems in the end quite remarkably realistic." - Roz Kaveney and John Clute, SFE (online). "Massive (583 pages) future history of India seen through the eyes of a number of different protagonists. Both eutopian and dystopian elements. India is both high tech and very traditional." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. A Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke nominee. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 2005. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-744A. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #75].
RIVER OF GODS.
New York: PYR, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. "There is an abiding sense in McDonald's more recent work that the futures we already inhabit in the early twenty-first century are not only all-encompassing, but may also mark the end of the dominance of the old First World. This is perhaps most explicit in RIVER OF GODS (2004), set in a complexly depicted loose confederation of states that by the year 2047 (the hundredth anniversary of independence) have exfoliated out of India. The great subcontinent -- bedevilled by the inexorable crises of climate change, and intensely implicated in the development of AI technologies beyond limits "permitted" by a conservative America attempting vainly to defend its old prerogatives -- becomes here an immensely detailed and plausible arena, a vision of near future that seems in the end quite remarkably realistic." - Roz Kaveney and John Clute, SFE (online). "Massive (583 pages) future history of India seen through the eyes of a number of different protagonists. Both eutopian and dystopian elements. India is both high tech and very traditional." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. A Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke nominee. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 2005. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-744A. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #75].
SPEAKING IN TONGUES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories, the author's second collection of short fiction.
TERMINAL CAFÉ.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1994, i.e. 1995]. Octavo, frontispiece by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. First hardcover edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by McDonald. Introduction by James Gunn. In the future with the use of nanotechnology death has been eliminated, waiting to be resurrected one lives in a Necroville, working off the debt incurred needed for rebirth. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series.