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    Empire Dreams

    By Ian McDonald

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    Published simultaneously as Desolation Road, the Empire Dreams collection was intended to exploit the author’s nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1985. It collects the following stories:

    Vivaldi Visits to Remarkable Cities
    Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh
    Scenes from a Shadowplay Radio Marrakech
    King of Morning, Queen of Day
    The Island of the Dead
    Empire Dreams (Ground Control to Major Tom)
    Christian The Catharine Wheel (Our Lady of Tharsis)

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    “One of the most interesting and accomplished science fiction writers of this latter-day era, indeed maybe the most interesting and accomplished, and certainly the most culturally and musically sophisticated, the Frank Herbert, William Gibson, or arguably even Thomas Pynchon of the early 21st century.” – Asimov’s

    “I will read anything that man writes — he is the most underappreciated genius working in the field today.” – Cory Doctorow

    “McDonald’s power as a storyteller lies in his stylistic versatility and intensity of language as well as in his capacity to create vivid and memorable characters.” – Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
    Release dateJan 29, 2010
    ISBN9781625670755
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    Empire Dreams
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    Ian McDonald

    IAN MCDONALD was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. His novels include King of Morning, Queen of Day (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award), River of Gods, The Dervish House, the graphic novel Kling Klang Klatch, and many more. In 2019, Ian was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the European Science Fiction Society. He now lives in Belfast.

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