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Praise for River of Gods

"{A} bold, brave look at India on the eve of its centennial, forty-one years from now.
McDonald has become increasingly popular in recent years, and it's easy to see why in this
novel, his first to earn him a Hugo nominationтАж McDonald takes his readers from India's
darkest depths to its most opulent heights, from rioting mobs and the devastated poor to
high-level politicians and lavish parties. He handles his complex plot with flair and confidence
and deftly shows how technological advances and social changes have subtly changed lives.
River of Gods is a major achievement from a writer who is becoming one of the best sf
novelists of our time." Washington Post


"This ambitious portrait of a future India from British author McDonald (Desolation Road)
offers multitudes: gods, castes, protagonists, culturesтАж [R]eaders will become increasingly
hooked as the pieces of McDonald's richly detailed world fall into place. Already nominated
for both Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke awards, this is sure to be one of the more talked-about
SF novels of the year." Publishers Weekly


"That River of Gods deserves your attention goes without saying. Since Ian McDonald won
the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer back in the mideighties, he's won a Locus
AwardтАж a Philip K. Dick AwardтАж and won or been nominated for a host of other awards.
River of Gods itself won the British Science Fiction Association's Best Novel award in 2004. So
take it as a given that if you haven't read River of Gods , you should have already, and what
are you waiting for?тАж River of Gods is a complex, architectonic novel of great complexityтАж
[W]hat McDonald has done, and what creates the meaning and importance of the novel is
this: River of Gods is a work of mature science fiction, presented in a new contextтАж [It] takes
ideas introduced elsewhere and develops them to a rich and logical extentтАж The result is a
layered, philosophical work. Read it. Enjoy it. Visit River of Gods." New York Review of
Science Fiction


"River of Gods тАж isтАж perhaps [Ian McDonald's] most accomplished novel to date. It's a dense
and sometimes difficult read, reminiscent of William Gibson in full-throttle
cultural-immersion mode, packed with technical jargon, religious and sociological
observation, and allusions to art both high and low. But River of Gods amply rewards careful
consideration and more than delivers its share of straight-ahead entertainment. Already a
multiple-award nominee following its British publication, McDonald's latest ranks as one of
the best science fiction novels published in the United States this year." San Francisco
Chronicle


"Every so often there comes along a novel, William Gibson's Neuromancer , say, or China
M├нeville's Perdido Street Station , or Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon , that seems to do it
all. Extrapolation, a sense of wonder that grabs you by the throat and won't let go, lush
carpets of setting, a profusion of ideas, complex representations of characters, soundings of
society at every level, all the resources of language. River of Gods is such a novel." James
Sallis, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction