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Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald Books

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Ian McDonald is a British science fiction novelist known for his unique imagination and profound insights into the future. His works often blend political, social, and cultural elements, exploring humanity's place in a complex universe.

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“Babies are tedious. Kids only start to become human on their fifth birthday.”

Book:New Moon

Source: New Moon

“Family is what works.”

Book:Planesrunner

Source: Planesrunner

“This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.”

Book:Brasyl

Source: Brasyl

“A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place—a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home to Mullaghbrack or Gortyfarnham or half a hundred other BallyBogMans, two farmers fall to reviewing their experiences of the big city. One has walked the streets and avenues and come away with memories of glistening steeples and dreaming spires, monuments to men of bearing and import, Palladian porticos and grand civic cupolas, pillars, piers, and palisades, and the air full of singing birds. The other has walked the same streets, yet his memories are of grey brick tenements shouldering against each other like nervous thugs; cracked fanlights, windows boarded over with card, baby carriages full of coal or potatoes, tramps in doorways, cabbage leaves underfoot, the perfume of urine and porter, pressing people with voices like flatirons. They might have visited cities continents apart, but it is the same city.”

Cities Travel Urbanism

Book:King of Morning, Queen of Day

Source: King of Morning, Queen of Day

“...they were triplets and as mutually indistinguishable as peas in a pod or days in a prison.”

Book:Desolation Road

Source: Desolation Road

“Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”

Legends History

Book:The Dervish House

Source: The Dervish House

“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.”

Knows Looks Art Stills Ends Eye Artist Dark Careers Too Much Seeing Painting Safe Comfortable Tired Details Warm Blindness Needles Miniatures

Author:Ian McDonald

“The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.”

Earth Tribes Geek

Author:Ian McDonald

“In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.”

Age Mercy Helpless Meek Surplus Kali

Book:Cyberabad Days

Source: Cyberabad Days

“Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.”

World May Littles Lying Deception Fake

Book:Brasyl

Source: Brasyl

“There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.”

Humans Broken Circumstances Behavior Human Behavior Spectacular Mundane

Book:River of Gods

Source: River of Gods

“He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.”

Believe Eternity Theatre Treasure Intimate Chimes

Book:The Dervish House

Source: The Dervish House

About the Author

Born: March 31, 1960
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 12

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