This collection of seven stories and a thirty-one thousand word original novella revisits the vivid world of near future India that McDonald so successfully depicted in "River of Gods "(a BSFA Award winner). Readers will discover 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 outnumber females four to one. This future India has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Includes one Hugo Award nominee and one Hugo Award winner."
- ISBN10 1591026997
- ISBN13 9781591026990
- Publish Date 24 February 2009
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prometheus Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 279
- Language English