Series
India 2047
Ian McDonald · 1 novel · 2 novellas · 4 novelettes · 1 short story · 1 collection · 2004–2009
Set in an India a century after independence, this sequence follows the political and personal fallout of banned, illegally evolved artificial intelligences amid an India-Pakistan water war. River of Gods (2004) is the core novel; The Little Goddess and the linked stories collected in Cyberabad Days (2009) revisit the same Cyberabad setting from smaller, more intimate angles. Ian McDonald built it around near-future biotech, nanotech, and AI rather than a continuing cast of characters.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
India 2047 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.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s9
Shape
1 novel · 2 novellas · 4 novelettes · 1 short story · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:science fictionartificial intelligencesouth asianear futurechallengingadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Little Goddessdarkest
- The Djinn's Wifebrightest
- Sanjeev and Robotwallahcalmest
- The Dust Assassinmost intense