McDONALD, Ian
Born in Manchester and raised in Northern Ireland (where he still lives) Ian McDonald is an award winning Science Fiction author. His novels include Brasyl (2007), River of Gods (2004), Ares Express (2001), Kirinya (1998) and Desolation Road (1988) and he been extensively published all over the world.
Ian is also also a prolific writer of novellas and short fiction and his work has appeared in many anthologies and collections.
Amongst the many accolades he has received for his fiction are the BSFA award (in both the novel and short fiction categories), the Philip K. Dick award, the Hugo award, 
the LOCUS award for best first novel and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He has also received nominations and shortlisitngs for a host of other genre prizes including the Arthur C. Clarke and Nebula awards.
Ian maintains a blog which can be found here.
A new Short story collection Cyberabad Days is due to be published in February 2009 in the US by Pyr and in March 2009 by Gollancz in the UK.
The world: ‘Cyberabad’ is the India of 2047, 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 out-number females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Cyberabad is a collection of 7 stories.
The Little Goddess – Hugo nominee Best Novella 2006. – in near future Nepal, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood.
The Djinn’s Wife – Hugo nominee and BSFA short fiction winner 2007 – a minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence but is it a marriage of heaven and hell?
The Dust Assassin. – feuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process.
Jasbir and Sujay go Shaadi – love and marriage should be plain-sailing when your matchmaker is a soap-star artificial intelligence.
Sanjeev and Robotwallah – what happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over?
Kyle meets the River – a young American in Varanas learns the true meaning of ‘nation building’ in the early days of a new country.
Vishnu at the Cat Circus – a genetically improved ‘Brahmin’ child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity.