River of Gods

Book:	River of Gods
Author:	Ian McDonald
Honors:	2005 Clarke shortlist 2005 Hugo-Novel nominee Score: 12.55
Genres:	Science Fiction books Speculative Fiction books
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)

Happy Hundredth Birthday, India…In the mid twenty-first century, Mother India is all the things she is now—ancient and vibrant, poor yet staggeringly rich. Diverse, violent, beautiful and terrible, thrilling and bewildering. A nation choked with peoples and cultures, riven with almost seismic contrasts and contradictions. Nearly two billion humans crowd the subcontinent and her seething cities—the cyberabads—where timeless culture and the highest of high-technologies meet to spawn new societies, and—possibly—new sentient species.

River of Gods is a book as big and brawling as its subject. Its magnificently diverse array of characters—from genetically enhanced ‘Brahmins’ to body-part runners, American scientists to ‘Dharma-cops’ (government Artificial Intelligence assassins)—are drawn in interwoven stories towards a cosmic-scale conclusion that will forever change the way we understand ourselves, life, and the universe we inhabit.

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