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Cyberabad Days is a triumphant return to the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas.

Cyberabad Days is a collection of eight stories, one Hugo nominee and one Hugo winner among them, as well as a twenty-five thousand word original novella. As with everything Ian McDonald does, it is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.

Featuring:

* Sanjeev and Robotwallah: What happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over?

* Kyle meets the River: A young American in Varanasi learns the true meaning of “nation building” in the early days of a new country.

* The Dust Assassin: Feuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process.

* An Eligible Boy: An Indian take on “Cyrano de Bergerac." Love and marriage should be easy with an Artificial Intelligence matchmaker.

* The Little Goddess: In near future Nepal, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood.

* The Djinn’s Wife: A minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence, but is it a marriage of heaven and hell?

* Vishnu at the Cat Circus: A genetically improved “Brahmin”child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity.