River of Gods

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River of Gods

Author:	Ian McDonald
Publisher:	Pyr, 2005 Simon & Schuster UK, 2004
Series:	India 2047: Book 1
0. Vishnu at the Cat Circus 0. The Little Goddess 0. The Djinn's Wife 0. An Eligible Boy 0. The Dust Assassin 0. Sanjeev and Robotwallah 1. River of Gods 2. Cyberabad Days
Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Artificial Intelligence Near-Future Cyberpunk
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Awards:	2004 BSFA Winner 2005 Clarke Nominated 2005 Hugo Nominated
Lists:	SF Masterworks Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010
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Synopsis

As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business: a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Ajthe waif, the mind reader, the prophet, when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden.

In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation.

River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and culturesone and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.