A Suitable Boy meets The Matrix in a big Indian novel of the future, 2047. As this massive country begins celebrating its 100th birthday, on the verge of war and waiting for the monsoon, ten diverse characters begin the journey that will decide the fate of their civilization. A gripping, beautifully imagined epic. Huge in scope, very impressive.
Comparison: China Mieville, Stephen Donaldson (Gap Series), Ruchir Joshi’s Last Jet Engine Laugh.
Similar this month: Lian Hearn, Steph Swainston.
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August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India ... On the eve of Mother India's hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From gangsters to government advisors, from superstitious street-boys to scientists to computer-generated soap stars, River of Gods shows a civilization in flux - a river of gods.
RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes. This is an SF novel that blew apart the narrow anglo and US-centric concerns of the genre and ushered in a new global consciousness for the genre.
River of Gods features in the following genres: Science Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
River of Gods is available in Paperback, Ebook
River of Gods was written by Ian Mcdonald and published by Gollancz an imprint of Orion
River of Gods has 608 pages
£11.69
