by Ian McDonald
A challenging but enjoyable book set in India 2047 where the main soap opera features a.i. cast members. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the ten main characters in the book, from gangsters to government advisors to"Krisna Cops" hunting rouge a.i's, with the multiple plot lines interwoven between...
Okay, this is what fiction should be like.What a wonderfully inventive book.This is a story of India at 100 years old. It is a story of a billion and half people and at least a billion gods. It is not an easy read, but it is worth every second of it.Imagine if when humanity creates artificial intell...
You know you're probably not going to write a rave when you find yourself skimming hundreds of pages at a time to reach parts of the book that matter to the plot.Four things really bothered me about River of Gods, Ian MacDonald's latest about how humans will react when they create beings greater tha...
One of the things I like about McDonald is his ability to take a setting not often seen in science fiction, put it in the near future, and give it a great sense of time and place without overdoing it. The culture and technology of a mid-21st Century India was fascinating. As was the author's ideas...
as for the book, i definitely loved it and would be reading more mcdonalds soon. i loved the hindu gods there (i have a soft spot for them) and i loved mcdonalds way of looking at gods/god, loved his future and what might/can be, loved the way the story flowed and the characters were shown bit by b...
With a broad cast and many disconnected scenes, River of Gods starts out seeming a lot like the year 2047 Indian soap opera (here cleverly called a soapi) its plot sometimes follows. In fact, the novel appears too tightly focused on its massive cast with no connections made between characters or wit...
Rating: 5* of fiveThe Book Report: This is another resurrected review, so I'm putting the Amazon book description here: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 sci...
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