Ian McDonald bibliography

List of works by or about the British author Ian McDonald.

Novels

Desolation Road series

• Desolation Road (1988)^[1]
• The Luncheonette of Lost Dreams (1992) (short story)
• Ares Express (2001)^[2]

Chaga saga

• "Toward Kilimanjaro" (1990) (short story)
• Chaga (1995, US: Evolution's Shore)
• Kirinya (1997)
• "Tendeléo's Story" (2000) (short story)

India in 2047

• River of Gods (2004)^[3]
• The Djinn's Wife (2006) in Asimov's Science Fiction – Hugo Award for Best Novelette winner^[4]

Everness series

• Planesrunner (2011)^[5][6]
• Be My Enemy (2012)^[7][8]
• Empress of the Sun (2014)^[9]

Luna series

• New Moon (2015)^[10][11][12] - BSFA award nominee,^[13] winner of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award^[14]
• Wolf Moon (2017)^[15]
• Moon Rising (2019)^[16][17]

Standalone novels

• Out on Blue Six (1989)
• King of Morning, Queen of Day (1991)
• Hearts, Hands and Voices (1992, US: The Broken Land)
• Necroville (1994, US: Terminal Café)
• Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone (1994) - 2013 e-book includes The Tear
• Sacrifice of Fools (1996)
• Brasyl (2007) – Hugo Award nominee, winner of the BSFA award,^[18] Nominated for the £50,000 Warwick Prize for Writing
• The Dervish House (2010) – Hugo Award nominee, Clarke Award nominee, winner of the BSFA award
• Time Was (2018)^[19]
• Hopeland (2023)
• The Wilding (2024)
• Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur (2026)

Graphic novels

• Kling Klang Klatch (1992) (graphic novel, illustrated by David Lyttleton)

Short fiction

Collections

• Empire Dreams (1988)
• Speaking in Tongues (1992)
• Cyberabad Days (2009)^[20]
• The Best of Ian McDonald (2015)

Short stories

• "The Islands of the Dead" (1982)
• "The Catharine Wheel" (Our Lady of Tharsis) (1984) (also published as "The Catharine Wheel")
• "Christian" (1984)
• "Scenes from a Shadowplay" (1985)
• "Empire Dreams" (1985)" (also appeared as: Empire Dreams; Ground Control to Major Tom)
• "Approaching Perpendicular" (1988)
• "Radio Marrakech" (1988)
• "The Island of the Dead" (1988)
• "Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh" (1988)
• "Visits to Remarkable Cities" (1988)
• "Vivaldi" (1988)
• "King of Morning, Queen of Day" (1988)
• "Gardenias" (1989)
• "Rainmaker Cometh" (1989)
• "Listen" (1989)
• "Atomic Avenue" (1990)
• "Speaking in Tongues" (1990)
• "Winning" (1990)
• "Fronds" (1990)
• "Toward Kilimanjaro" [Chaga] (1990)
• "Floating Dogs" (1991)
• "King of Morning, Queen of Day" (excerpt)" (1991)
• "Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" (1991)
• "Brody Loved the Masai Woman" (1992)
• "Innocents" (1992)
• "The Best and the Rest of James Joyce" (1992)
• "Fat Tuesday" (1992)
• "Big Chair" (1992)
• "Legitimate Targets" (1993)
• "Some Strange Desire" (1993)
• "The Undifferentiated Object of Desire" (1993)
• "Blue Motel" (1994)
• "Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone" (1994)
• "Steam" (1995)
• "The Time Garden: A Faery Story" (1995)
• "Frooks" (1995)
• "Faithful" (1996)
• "Islington" (1996)
• "Recording Angel" (1996)
• "The Further Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Gulf War" (1996)
• "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" (1997)
• "The Five O'Clock Whistle" (1997)
• "After Kerry" (1997)
• "The Days of Solomon Gursky" (1998)
• "Breakfast on the Moon, with Georges" (1999)
• "Tendeléo's Story" [Chaga] (2000)
• "The Twenty Five Mile High Club" (2002)
• "The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars" (2002)
• "The Hidden Place" (2002)
• "Written in the Stars" (2005) in Constellations
• "The Little Goddess" (2005)
• "Kyle Meets the River" (2006)
• "Sanjeev and Robotwallah" (2007)
• "Verthandi's Ring" (2007)
• "The Tear" (2008)
• "[A Ghost Samba]" (2008)
• "The Dust Assassin" (2008)
• "An Eligible Boy" (2008)
• "Vishnu at the Cat Circus" (2009)
• "A Little School" (2009)
• "Tonight We Fly" (2010)
• "Digging" (2011)
• "A Smart Well-Mannered Uprising of the Dead" (2011)
• "Driftings" (2013)
• "The Queen of the Night's Aria" (2013) in Old Mars (anthology)^[21][22]
• "The Revolution Will Not Be Refrigerated" (2013) in Twelve Tomorrows 2014 (anthology)
• "Nanonauts! In Battle with Tiny Death-subs!" (2014) in Robot Uprisings (anthology)
• "The Fifth Dragon" (2014, novelette) in Reach for Infinity (anthology)^[23][24][25]
• "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" (2015) in Old Venus (anthology)^[26]

Critical studies and reviews of McDonald's work

• Clute, John, & Nicholls, Peter (eds). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993. ISBN 0-312-09618-6.
• Lennard, John, Ian McDonald: Chaga / Evolution's Shore. Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.
• Spinrad, Norman (April–May 2013). "Doors to anywhere". On Books. Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (4&5): 183–191. Reviews Planesrunner.