He published a sequel, Ares Express, in 2001. McDonald's debut novel was Desolation Road (1988), which takes place on a far future Mars in a town that develops around an oasis in the terraformed Martian desert. He has also worked in TV consultancy within Northern Ireland, contributing scripts to the Northern Irish Sesame Workshop production of Sesame Tree. McDonald sold his first story to a local Belfast magazine when he was 22, and in 1987 became a full-time writer. He lived through the whole of the ' Troubles' (1968–1999), and his sensibility has been permanently shaped by coming to understand Northern Ireland as a post-colonial society imposed on an older culture. He moved to Belfast when he was five and has lived there ever since. Ian McDonald was born in 1960, in Manchester, to a Scottish father and Irish mother.
His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies. Fans of science fiction who enjoy a dash of history and legend will savor this tender story.Ian McDonald (born 1960) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. The ending’s predictability is washed away by beautiful writing that mixes Emmett’s excitement with melancholy (“I had touched an echo, basked in the afterglow”). Every locale McDonald includes, be it modern London or WWII-era southeast England, is infused with a deep sense of place. The sections following Tom and Ben vividly portray the hopes of youth torn apart by wars and the mystery of their separations.
Emmett’s obsessive quest provides a colorful frame for the clues of the lovers’ appearances. The threads McDonald weaves together are equally compelling.
An old, anonymous poetry book thrown into the rubbish in modern-day London contains an obliquely written love letter that leads narrator Emmett to search for Tom and Ben, two lovers who met during World War II but were forced by mysterious circumstances to wander alone across time and space. Veteran speculative author McDonald (the Luna series) entrances readers with this multigenerational novella of two time-crossed lovers who can only meet for brief moments separated by several years.
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