- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; New edition edition (4 April 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743404009
- ISBN-13: 978-0743404006
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 452,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A staggering achievement, brilliantly imagined and endlessly surprising ... A brave, brilliant and wonderful novel'
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'Hugely adventurous and entertaining, sumptuously inventive and full of heart...it is likely to rank as Ian McDonald's finest creative achievement'
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
woo hoo, woo hoo hoo,
This review is from: River of Gods (Paperback)
Three years after the so-so Ares Express, but it's been worth the wait. This is a big steam-roller of a book --you don't so much read it as experience it; it's a shock to the system in almost every way. There's so much going on it it's almost impossible to adequately describe --Mysterious Artefacts in space, artificial intelligences, a completely computer generated soap opera (it's only a question of time really)weater wars, political intrigue, third-sex 'nutes', genetically engineered 'Brahmins': this is wide-screen SF. More than that, it has the feel of John Brunner's classics: Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, --it's a lived in future, not just a wam-bam story. And it's India! This is a world as alien as any you'll read in a wide-angle space-opera...Great characters, who generate the story, rather than get pushed around by it, and a cosmic-scale denoument that is perfectly set up, but I for one didn't see coming. Not the easiest book I ever read, but you come out of it with your head reeling and our world seems dull and pale by comparison. Oh, and there's cricket too!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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River of Gods,
This review is from: River of Gods (Paperback)
River of Gods marks a return to form for Ian McDonald, after the dissapointing Ares Express. It's set in a near-future India, splintered into smaller states. The book takes awhile to get going as there are several protagonists and we are introduced to each in turn, as the plot starts up. This takes time, but is rewarding as we see a multi-faceted view of the society that Indida has become in the near future, and the changes to the human condition that have come with biotechnology and climate change.The plot is layered and keeps us guessing to the very end. I can't discuss it much here whithout giving too much away, but it's as satisfying and twisty-turny with the same mythic ties as the original Desolation Road, only the mythos here is Indian, not African, and a great deal more interesting. There are occasional passages where he holds up a latter-day mirror to the current-day West, but it's done stubly and doesn't interfere with a read as tightly plotted as a thriller. In short, a very rewarding read.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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River of Gods,
By Bob simms (Rochester, Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: River of Gods (Paperback)
River of Gods takes you into an alien (at least alien to my western mind) world of India 50 years hence, with a mix of hi-tech gadgets and third-world slums, Hindu mythology and Bollywood artificial intelligences.The book consists of the lives of several seemingly unconnected individuals all gradually colliding into a crescendo finish. It takes a little effort to get into the story, especially as the book is littered with Indian terms mixed with future technology. The Glossary at the back was helpful, though even without it the general context of the phrases can be understood. But pretty soon I was hooked. An excellent read.
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