Series
Desolation Road
Ian McDonald · 2 novels · 1 novelette · 1988–2001
Desolation Road, Ian McDonald's first novel, imagines a far-future, terraformed Mars where a town grows up around a desert oasis and takes on a life of its own, mixing magical-realist incident with hard-SF colonization detail. Thirteen years later McDonald returned to the same Martian frontier for a follow-up, Ares Express, revisiting the setting rather than continuing a single ongoing plot.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Desolation Road at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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- 1980s1
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- 2000s1
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Too few works here carry a tone to place this series.
the catalog’s own centre, waiting for company1 of 3 works carry a tone