Ian McDonald

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Chaga

1 - Chaga (Nov-2009)
2 - Kirinya (Dec-2009)
3 - Tendeleo's Story (Jan-2010)

Everness

1 - Planesrunner (Dec-2011)
2 - Be My Enemy (Sep-2012)
3 - Empress of the Sun (Feb-2014)

Luna

1 - New Moon (Sep-2015)
2 - Wolf Moon (Apr-2017)
3 - Moon Rising (Aug-2018)
3.5 - The Menace from Farside (Nov-2019)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Empire Dreams

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    A collection of science fiction stories and novelettes by the Hugo and Philip K. Dick Awardâ€"winning author of Desolation Road and Luna: New Moon.Published in conjunction with his Locus Awardâ€"winning debut novel, Desolation Road, Empire Dream...

  • Out on Blue Six

    It's hundreds of years in the future and the world is perfect. Total fulfillment and happiness are the official goals of the Compassionate Society, and any citizens who find themselves less than delighted are guilty of a PainCrime. Cartoonist Court...

  • Desolation Road

    It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality; from Adam Black’s Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational ’Stravaganza ...

  • Floating Dogs

    in Future War
    • / Science Fiction
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  • King of Morning, Queen of Day

    In the myth-ridden hills of Ireland, three generations of young women struggle to tame the ancient magical powers that course through their blood. Each in her own way, Emir; Jessica, and Enye face the darker side of the human mythoconsciousness. One ...

  • The Broken Land

    “At once disturbing and beautiful . . . superbly realized.” -- The Times (London) Grandfather was a tree, Father grew trux, in fifteen colours. Mother could sing the double-helix song, sing it right into the hearts of living things and change t...

  • Speaking in Tongues

    A collection of short stories by the author of The Broken Land features "Gardenias," in which a futuristic machine gives rise to a seductive religion, and "Rainmaker Cometh," in which some desert town inhabitants realize their desires. ...

  • Kling Klang Klatch

    KLING KLANG KLATCH is set in a superficially glittering world that, if not exactly human, reflects humanity's desires, corruption, and racism at a fundamental level. Ian McDonald's (Desolation Road) blackly bizarre wit and David Lyttleton's (Punch) r...

  • Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone

    “Cyberpunk’s first lyrical poem, mixing Kabbalah, manga, pop-culture trivia and Zen with enough style and dexterity to actually pull it off . . . [McDonald] does more in a page than most writers do in a chapter.” -- Neal Stephenson Words can c...



  • Terminal Cafe

    Decades after a technological discovery enables the dead to come back to life, the realms of the living and the undead are separated by strict boundaries, and a restless artist decides to explore an ultimate challenge. Reprint....

  • Necroville

    In the Los Angeles ghetto of Necroville, the yearly celebration of the Night of the Dead - where the dead are resurrected through the miracle of nanotechnology and live their second lives as non-citizens - becomes a journey of discovery and revelatio...

  • Evolution's Shore

    In 2003, following a large meteor strike on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, researches discover a growing infestation of an alien life-form growing, a phenomenon that could mean the destruction or transformation of the human race. Reprint....

  • Bruno the Bandit

  • River of Gods

    A superpower of two billion people, a dozen new nations from Kerela to the Himalayas, artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline human...

  • Brasyl

    Think Bladerunner in the tropics... Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF,...

  • Cyberabad Days

    Cyberabad Days returns to the India of 2047 as featured in Ian McDonald's acclaimed novel River of Gods. A new, muscular superpower of two billion people in an age of new nations, artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water w...

  • Chaga

    Chaga - 1

    On the trail of the mystery of Saturn’s disappearing moons, network journalist Gaby McAslan finds herself in Africa researching the Kilimanjaro Event: a meteor-strike in Kenya which caused the stunning African landscape to give way to something equ...

  • Kirinya

    Chaga - 2

    The end of the universe happened at around ten o’clock at night on 22 December, 2032. It’s just that humanity hasn’t realized it yet. And the Chaga, the strange flora deposited from the stars, is still busy terraforming the tropics into someone...

  • Tendeleo's Story

    Chaga - 3

    From the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, an alien force begins to spread, turning the land into an unrecognizable alien landscape. Tendeléo is nine years old when this first package comes down, and before she reaches adulthood the Chaga will change her life...



  • Ares Express

    A Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colourful, witty SF novel; Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of ...

  • The Dervish House

    ISTANBUL: QUEEN OF CITIES. Here histories, empires, and continents meet and cross. It is the mid-twenty-first century and Turkey is a proud and powerful member of a European Union that runs from the Atlantic to Mt. Ararat. In the sleepy Istanbul di...

  • The Brutal Blade Of Bruno The Bandit

    Busting loose from the pages of his long-running webcomic (www.brunothebandit.com), Ian McDonald brings you the very first misadventures of his mercenary hero Bruno the Bandit. Join Bruno, his microdragon sidekick Fiona, and a varied cast of characte...

  • The Brutal Blade of Bruno the Bandit Vol. 2

    Bruno the Bandit is at it again! Within these pages is another dozen stories from the long-running webcomic (www.brunothebandit.com) by Ian McDonald. What happens when the outcome of every situation truly depends on the roll of the die? What if Bruno...

  • Planesrunner

    Everness - 1

    There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one of billions of parallel earths. When Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious ...

  • The Brutal Blade of Bruno the Bandit Vol. 3

    The third time's the charm! Or so hopes our hero, Bruno the Bandit, in this issue, as he turns on the charm in an attempt to win the lovely Lydia away from the wizard Maledict. Meanwhile, the demonic Numth'kul sees his troubles increase a thousandfol...

  • Be My Enemy

    Everness - 2

    Everett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from the clutches of Charlotte Villiers and the Order, but at a terrible price. His father is missing, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All Worlds, and Everett and...

  • Sacrifice of Fools

    Protestants, Catholics, aliens . . . Just another division in Belfast When the alien Shian come to Earth, they offer technology in exchange for a home. Belfast, Northern Ireland, is where eighty thousand of them settle. From that point on, the alr...

  • Empress of the Sun

    Everness - 3

    World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew f...

  • New Moon

    Luna - 1

    The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want t...



  • The Fifth Dragon

  • The Brutal Blade of Bruno the Bandit Vol. 6

    The Return of the King! The rightful king of Rothland, that is. Meanwhile, Bruno and Xantippa find one ring to bind them...much to our hero's dismay. While it doesn't lead to good fellowship, the situation does make Bruno's daughter even MORE preciou...

  • King of the Morning, Queen of the Day

    Three generations of women share a mysterious power - one that threatens to destroy them. In early-twentieth-century Ireland, life for Emily Desmond is that of the average teenage girl: she reads, she's bored with school, and she has a powerful imagi...

  • Wolf Moon

    Luna - 2

    A Dragon is dead. Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed . The remaining Helio children, Lucasinh...

  • Time Was

    Ian McDonald weaves a love story across an endless expanse with his science fiction novella Time Was A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it. In the heart of World War II, Tom and ...

  • The Guile

    When an AI that monitors casino gambling in Reno taunts a magician by revealing all his tricks, the magician is determined to exact his revenge... in Ian McDonald's Tor.com Original short story The Guile.At the Publisher's request, this title is bein...

  • Moon Rising

    Luna - 3

    The continuing saga of the Five Dragons, Ian McDonald's fast-paced, intricately plotted space opera pitched as Game of Thrones meets The Expanse A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons―five families that control the M...

  • The Menace from Farside

    Luna - 3.5

    In The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families.Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know....

  • Poems for Mary

    Ian McDonald has written even when the poetry is not specifically about Mary. Yet many poems have been directly inspired by her and this book contains them. When he got to know Mary he realized that she made life a lot more worth while. Since that ti...

  • The Humming-Bird Tree



  • Night, Rain, And Neon

    Produced as tribute to Neuromancer, William Gibson's genre defining novel, Night, Rain, and Neon is a volume of all new stories written by some of the sharpest and most insightful authors of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk fiction around, curated by edi...

  • The Brutal Blade of Bruno the Bandit Vol. 8

    Bruno's nuptials put him all at sea, while he learns chastity begins at home. But there's no point in pouting about it; the Passive Aggressive Pirates have all that covered. Later, Bruno's family ties seem too binding, the Shroud of Ailix gets Dibunq...

  • Hopeland

    A time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with a power unlike any we've seen before.When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne -...

  • The Hummingbird Tree

    • / Literary
    • Buy Buy

    Alan was too young to understand why his parents preferred him to play with the other white boys on the estate. But gradually, he learned that if he was going to meet Kaiser and Jaillin, he had to pretend he was going to meet someone else, he had to ...

  • Sikvandor

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy

    NEM CSAK EGYETLEN VAN BELOLED, HANEM SZÁMTALAN. Mind részei vagyunk az univerzumok sokaságának a párhuzamos dimenziókban ??? és Everett Singh apja éppen most találta meg az odavezeto utat. Csakhogy elrabolták, és most úgy tunik, mintha Everett édesap...

Award-Winning Books by Ian McDonald

The Dervish House
2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
Desolation Road
1989 Locus Award -- First Novel
King of Morning, Queen of Day
1992 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ian McDonald has published 44 books.

Ian McDonald does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hopeland, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Ian McDonald, Empire Dreams, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Ian McDonald has 3 series.
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