Desolation Road

More Best of 2009

Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews have published their Awards for 2009. The UK edition of Jasper Kent’s Twelve, which we’ll be releasing in 2010, comes in #4 in their Top Ten Reads. Meanwhile, Stephan Martiniere’s illustration for Ian McDonald’s Desolation Roadis one of the winners of Best Cover Artwork.

While over at Book Chick City, they list their Top Ten Most Anticipated Reads 2010, and George Mann’s Ghosts of Manhattanshows up at # 7.

Rock on.

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Ian McDonald’s brilliant Mars book, DESOLATION ROAD, finally back in print

Wonderful praise from Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing for Ian McDonald’s Desolation Road. Doctorow calls it “one of my most personally influential novel” and compares the book to Kim Stanley Robinson’s famous Mars trilogy, adding, “the two are very good companions, in that McDonald captures almost everything Robinson got (in a third of the number of pages), and adds the poetry and spirituality of Mars in the bargain.”

He goes on to say that Desolation Road, “pays homage to David Byrne’s Catherine Wheel, to Ray Bradbury’s entire canon and to Jack Vance, blending all these disparate creators in a way that surprises, delights, then surprises and delights again. Spanning centuries, the book includes transcendent math, alternate realities, corporate dystopias, travelling carnivals, post-singularity godlike AIs, geoengineering, and mechanical hobos, each integral to the plot.”

Yup.

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