Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald is a British science fiction and fantasy writer living in Belfast.

His books include themes of nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies. Many of his books are Mundane Dogmatic. Some (including Desolation Road and Hearts, Hands, and Voices) have elements of Magic Realism.

Not to be confused with the author of Bruno the Bandit.

Publications

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Desolation Road series

• Desolation Road (1988)
  • Bald of Evil: Arnie Tenebrae, when she becomes a psychotic warlord.
  • Desert Punk
  • Fertile Feet: The green man who is super-evolved and from the future.
  • Machine Worship: Inspiration Cadillac and his followers.
  • Terraform: The novel is set on a terraformed Mars.
• Ares Express (2001)
  • Desert Punk

Chaga saga

• Chaga (1995, US: Evolution's Shore)
  • Neo Africa: It centers around the Watekni subculture in a Twenty Minutes Into the Future Kenya.
• Kirinya (1997)

India in 2047

• River of Gods (2004)
  • Cyberpunk
  • AI Is a Crapshoot
• Cyberabad Days (2009) (collection)

Everness series

• Planesrunner (2011)
  • Alternate History
  • One of Us: The main character mentions TV Tropes by name.
• Be My Enemy (2012)
• Empress of the Sun (2014)

Luna series

• Luna: New Moon (2015)
• Luna: Wolf Moon (2017)
• Luna: Moon Rising (2019)
• The Menace from Farside (2019) (novella)

Other novels, novellas, and short stories

• Empire Dreams (1988) (short stories)
• Out on Blue Six (1989)
  • Political Correctness Gone Mad
  • God in Human Form: Kilimanjaro West turns out to be this.
• King of Morning, Queen of Day (1991)
  • Oireland
• Hearts, Hands and Voices (1992, US: The Broken Land)
  • Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Very obviously based on the Anglo-Irish conflicts of the 20th century
• Speaking in Tongues (1992) (short stories)
• Kling Klang Klatch (1992) (graphic novel, illustrated by David Lyttleton)
• Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone (1994)
  • Cyberpunk
  • Brown Note: The tattoos on the protagonist's palms--one causes memory loss, the other causes death.
• Necroville (1994, US: Terminal Cafe)
• Sacrifice of Fools (1996)
• Tendeleo's Story (2000)
• The Djinn's Wife (2006)
• Brasyl (2007)
• The Dervish House (2010)
• Time Was (2018)