Recorded in informal conversation at Eastercon 2007 just prior to their panel discussions: Richard Morgan, author of Black Man, and Ian Mcdonald, author of Brasyl.
Find out more about Richard Morgan here... http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/9537-0/Au...
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Find out more about Ian Mcdonald here... http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/5542-0/Au...
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'Black Man' by Richard Morgan
The sensational new thriller from the international bestselling star of SF combines a savage man-hunt with speculation on the dangers of genetic engineering.
One hundred years from now, and against all the odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached some sort of balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st century have left an uneasy legacy . . .
Genetically engineered alpha males, designed to fight the century's wars have no wars to fight and are surplus to requirements. And a man bred and designed to fight is a dangerous man to have around in peacetime. Many of them have left for Mars but now one has come back and killed everyone else on the shuttle he returned in.
Only one man, a genengineered ex-soldier himself, can hunt him down and so begins a frenetic man-hunt and a battle survival. And a search for the truth about what was really done with the world's last soldiers.
BLACK MAN is an unstoppable SF thriller but it is also a novel about predjudice, about the ramifications of playing with our genetic blue-print. It is about our capacity for violence but more worrying, our capacity for deceit and corruption.
This is another landmark of modern SF from one of its most exciting and commercial authors.
Richard Morgan is 40 and was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division. He has travelled widely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. He lives, with his wife, in Glasgow.
'Brasyl' by Ian Mcdonald
The sensational new novel from one of the most acclaimed UK SF writers; a major addition to the Gollancz list.
Ian Macdonald's RIVER OF GODS, painted a vivid picture of a near future India, 100 years after independence. It revolutionised British SF for a new generation by taking a perspective that was not European or American. BRASYL will do the same for South America's largest and most vibrant country.
A story that begins in the favelas, the slums of Rio, and quickly expands to take in drugs, corruption, and a frightening new technology that allows access to all the multiple worlds that have slipped into existence in other planes everytime we make a decision.
This is rich, epic SF that opens our eyes to the world around us and posits mind-blowing alternative sciences. It is a landmark work in modern SF from one of its most respected practitioners.
Ian McDonald was born in Manchester in 1960. His family moved to Northern Island in 1965. He now lives in Belfast and works in TV production. The author of many previous novels including the groundbreaking Chaga books set in Africa Ian McDonald has long been at the cutting edge of SF. RIVER OF GODS won the BSFA award in 2005.
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Ian McDonald Conversation on Mellotrons: Pt. 1 of 8by crimsonxtc12,927 views
@Skinnyoompalumpa
yeah the bolly/hindu culture is strong in this novel.
When it comes to a movie being bollywood i dunno - Tal the nute wouldn't be understood in the west but for india its common(but in the book it is no longer accepted). The Ganges war would be the shocking part in the movie and lisa darnu slows down the story. I do see Cyberbad days as being a cyber-punk type movie like Blade Runner.
SMS2RR 6 months ago
@SMS2RR
Let's just hope it is a Bollywood movie. I always wanted to see how India would care about wat is essentially a 600 page love letter to everything about them.
Skinnyoompalumpa 6 months ago
@Skinnyoompalumpa
yeah river of goods is aweesome it would probably be a movie sometime in the near future.
SMS2RR 6 months ago
Ian McDonald is the second best science fiction writer ever (Herbert is the 1st)
If by any chance anyone sees this video without reading River of Gods stop watching it and read it. It is one of the best Science fiction books ever written
Skinnyoompalumpa 8 months ago