Re: [silk] Ian McDonald's River of Gods

[ashok _]

Though not sci-fi, but with the indian-in-silicon-valley theme (with a
big dose of bollywood) Transmission by Hari Kunzru
(http://www.amazon.com/Transmission-Hari-Kunzru/dp/0525947604) was
quite fun


On 29 May 2007,  Thaths wrote:

 I came across Ian McDonald's _River of Gods_ [1] at a remote
 Northern California bookstore yesterday. Judging this book by its
 cover, it is supposed to be a near future sci-fi book set in India.

[silk] Ian McDonald's River of Gods

[Thaths]

I came across Ian McDonald's _River of Gods_ [1] at a remote Northern
California bookstore yesterday. Judging this book by its cover, it is
supposed to be a near future sci-fi book set in India. It had a quote
from Cory Doctorow in the back cover.

Has anyone here read this book? What do you think?

S.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/River-Gods-Ian-McDonald/dp/1591024366/
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Re: [silk] Ian McDonald's River of Gods

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

On 29-May-07, at 7:36 AM, Thaths wrote:


I came across Ian McDonald's _River of Gods_ [1] at a remote Northern
California bookstore yesterday. Judging this book by its cover, it is
supposed to be a near future sci-fi book set in India. It had a quote
from Cory Doctorow in the back cover.


It's good, provided you separate the story from the science. Some of  
what he says in the book still comes back to me when thinking of the  
changing media landscape.

Re: [silk] Ian McDonald's River of Gods

[Alok G. Singh]

On 29 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I came across Ian McDonald's _River of Gods_ [1] at a remote
 Northern California bookstore yesterday. Judging this book by its
 cover, it is supposed to be a near future sci-fi book set in India.

There's also _Wetware_ [1] by Rudy Rucker, a part of which is set in
India. Outskirts of Bengaluru, iirc. It's not something I'd recommend,
I mention it only in passing.

Footnotes: 
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Wetware-Rudy-V-B-Rucker/dp/0380701782

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Alok

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