Cyberabad Days Paperback / softback
by Ian McDonald
Paperback / softback
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The world: 'Cyberabad' is the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water-wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity and a population where males out-number females four to one.
India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas.
Cyberabad is a collection of 7 stories:The Little Goddess.
Hugo nominee Best Novella 2006. In near future Nepal, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood. The Djinn's Wife. Hugo nominee and BSFA short fiction winner 2007 A minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence but is it a marriage of heaven and hell?The Dust Assassin.
Feuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process.
Jasbir and Sujay go Shaadi. Love and marriage should be plain-sailing when your matchmaker is a soap-star artificial intelligenceSanjeev and Robotwallah.
What happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over?Kyle meets the River.
A young American in Varanas learns the true meaning of 'nation building' in the early days of a new country. Vishnu at the Cat Circus. A genetically improved 'Brahmin' child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:08/10/2009
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- ISBN:9780575084063
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:08/10/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780575084063
