In the future we may be able to erase the past but that won’t stop it from coming…

British author McDonald’s outstanding SF novel channels the vitality of South America’s largest country into an edgy, post-cyberpunk free-for-all. McDonald sets up three separate characters in different eras — a cynical contemporary reality-TV producer, a near-future bisexual entrepreneur and a tormented 18th-century Jesuit agent. He then slams them together with the revelation that their worlds are strands of an immense quantum multiverse, and each of them is threatened by the Order, a vast conspiracy devoted to maintaining the status quo until the end of time. As McDonald weaves together the separate narrative threads, each character must choose between isolation or cooperation, and also between accepting things as they are or taking desperate action to make changes possible. River of Gods (2004), set in near-future India, established McDonald as a leading writer of intelligent, multicultural SF, and here he captures Latin America’s mingled despair and hope. Chaotic, heartbreaking and joyous, this must-read teeters on the edge of melodrama, but somehow keeps its precarious balance.Won BSFA Award in 2008.Nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Locus and John Campbell awards in 2008.

A fantasy adventure following network journalist Gaby McAslan to Africa to research the Kilimanjaro Event – a meteor which landed in Kenya causing the African landscape to give way to the “Chaga”, an alien flora able to destroy all man-made materials and mould human flesh, bone and spirit.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2047: Indien feiert hundert Jahre Unabhängigkeit. Doch in dem Land, das mit seinen pulsierenden Großstädten, hypermodernen Computern und Künstlichen Intelligenzen in der Moderne angekommen ist, werden auch zerstörerische Tendenzen sichtbar. Zehn Menschen treiben durch diesen Mahlstrom der Technologien und Kulturen, unter ihnen ein Gangster, ein Polizist, ein Wissenschaftler, ein Politiker, ein Ausgestoßener und ein Stand-up-Comedian. Sie alle werden in den Wochen um das Jahrhundertereignis in den Strudel der Ereignisse gezogen, die das Schicksal Indiens für immer verändern werden: Ein Krieg bricht aus, Künstliche Intelligenzen verselbstständigen sich — und eine Botschaft aus dem All wird entschlüsselt. Und während sich zwischen Slums und Großrechnern die digitale Zukunft der Menschheit entfaltet, fließt der große Ganges weiter durch Cyberabad …»Es gibt nur wenige Autoren, deren Romane unsere Sicht auf die Welt verändern — mit Cyberabad zählt Ian McDonald dazu.«Time Magazine

Istanbul, avril 2027.Sous une chaleur écrasante, la ville tentaculaire fête le cinquième anniversaire de l’entrée de la Turquie dans la Communauté européenne. Quinze ans plus tôt, Israël a frappé les sites nucléaires iraniens avec des missiles thermobariques, provoquant indirectement le pire choc pétrolier et gazier de l’Histoire.Dans Istanbul en ébullition (l’air conditionné coûte trop cher, l’eau aussi), une bombe explose dans un tramway. Cet événement va bouleverser la vie des habitants de la maison des derviches de la place Adem-Dede : Necdet se met à voir des djinns, le jeune Can utilise son robot pour enquêter sur l’attentat non revendiqué, l’antiquaire Ayse accepte de rechercher un sarcophage légendaire, Leyla se voit chargée du marketing d’une nouvelle technologie révolutionnaire : le stockage bio-informatique.C’est dans la maison des derviches que se joueront rien de moins que l’avenir de la Turquie et celui du monde tel que nous le connaissons.

Tous les Hindous vous le diront, pour se débarasser de ses péchés, il suffit de se laver dans les eaux du Gangâ, dans la cité de Vârânacî.Et, en cette année 2047, les péchés ce n’est pas ce qui manque : un corps aux ovaires prélevés glisse doucement sur les eaux du fleuve ; des intelligences artificielles se rebellent et causent de tels dégâts qu’une unité de police a été spécialement créée pour les excommunier.Gangâ, le fleuve des dieux, dont les eaux n’ont jamais été aussi basses, se rue vers un gouffre conceptuel, technologique, évolutionnaire - ou peut-être tout cela à la fois.A travers le kaléidoscope de neuf destins interconnectés, Ian McDonald dresse le portrait d’une Inde future, mais aussi d’une Terre future, où tout n’est que vertige. Souvent considéré outre-Atlantique et outre-Manche comme le roman de science-fiction le plus important des quinze dernières années, Le Fleuve des dieux a reçu le British Science Fiction Award et a été finaliste du prestigieux prix Hugo.

Fifteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner DozoisBurroughs's A Princess of Mars. Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Heinlein's Red Planet. These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fiction's greatest wonders did not necessarily lie far in the future or light-years across the galaxy but were to be found right now on a nearby world tantalizingly similar to our own - a red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky …and in our imaginations.This new anthology of fifteen all-original science fiction stories, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, celebrates the Golden Age of Science Fiction, an era filled with tales of interplanetary colonization and derring-do. Before the advent of powerful telescopes and space probes, our solar system could be imagined as teeming with strange life-forms and ancient civilizations - by no means always friendly to the dominant species of Earth. And of all the planets orbiting that G-class star we call the Sun, none was so steeped in an aura of romantic decadence, thrilling mystery, and gung-ho adventure as Mars.Join such seminal contributors as Michael Moorcock, Mike Resnick, Joe R. Lansdale, S. M. Stirling, Mary Rosenblum, Ian McDonald, Liz Williams, James S. A. Corey, and others in this brilliant retro anthology that turns its back on the cold, all-but-airless Mars of the Mariner probes and instead embraces an older, more welcoming, more exotic Mars: a planet of ancient canals cutting through red deserts studded with the ruined cities of dying races.

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume—until now.Review“Anthologist Adams presents readers with a wide variety of alternate Earths, some only slightly askew and others completely unfamiliar. […] Adams’s selections are mirrors reflecting one other with the best images of alternate realities. Readers will greatly enjoy this exploration of our world's foremost and ascendant speculative authors.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)“Reminds longtime readers of fantasy and sci-fi what we love about the genre, while also and aptly demonstrating to newcomers that these stories are about so much more than dragons and multitentacled monsters. It comes highly recommended to both and all.”—Bookgasm