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 intelligence Sanjeev 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Gollancz - Cassell Group
ISBN: 9780575084063
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/10/2009
Año de edición: 2009
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Ian McDonald
(1960, Manchester, Inglaterra). Actualmente vive en Belfast, Irlanda. Es el autor de varias novelas ampliamente aclamadas, incluyendo Camino Desolación, King of the Morning y Queen of the Night, todas ellas con alta carga social. Además ha publicado numerosas historias en revistas y antologías a ambos lados del Atlántico, siendo traducidas a numerosos idiomas. Su trabajo le ha otorgado el premio Philip K. Dick, el Locus y diversas nominaciones a los premios Arthur C. Clarke y Hugo, y la obra que tienes entre manos le ha valido el British Science Fiction Award.