Note: There are other authors with the same name: Ian McDonald (artist), Ian McDonald (I), Ian McDonald (II), Ian McDonald (III)

Author: Ian McDonald Author Record # 1020 Legal Name: McDonald, Ian Neil Birthplace: Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK Birthdate: 31 March 1960 Language: English Webpages: CSFDB, IMDB, LiveJournal, SFE, Wikipedia-EN, X/Twitter Used These Alternate Names: Ian MacDonald, Йен Макдональд?Yen Makdonal'd , Иън Макдоналд?Ian Makdonald , イアン・マクドナルド?Ian Makudonarudo , Iain McDonald, Jan McDonnald, Jan Mekdonald Author Tags: science fiction (25), india (9), moon (6), africa (5), mars (4), near future (4), young-adult sf (3), parallel universe (3), space opera (3), nanotechnology (3), artificial intelligence (2), nonbinary gender (2), Brazil (2), aliens (2), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (2), time travel (2), fantasy (2), war with aliens (1), stage magic (1), first contact (1) and 48 additional tags. View all tags for Ian McDonald

• Chaga
  • Toward Kilimanjaro (1990) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Rumo ao Kilimanjaro [Portuguese] (1992)
    • Translation: Zum Kilimandscharo [German] (1993)
    • Translation: Prema Kilimandžaru [Serbian] (1998) [as by Jan Mekdonald]
    • Translation:
      キリマンジャロへ^?Kirimanjaro he
      Kirimanjaro e
      [Japanese] (2001) [as by
      イアン・マクドナルド^?Ian Makudonarudo
      ]
  • Chaga (1995) also appeared as:
    • Variant: Evolution's Shore (1995)
    • Translation: Chaga [German] (1997)
    • Translation: Chaga [Croatian] (1999)
  • Kirinya (1998) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Kirinja [German] (2000)
  • Tendeléo's Story (2000) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Tendeléos Geschichte [German] (2001)
    • Translation:
      Tendeléo^?Tendeleo
      [French] (2002)
    • Variant: Tendeleo's Story (2016)
  
  
• Desolation Road
  • Desolation Road (1988) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Desolation road [French] (1989)
    • Translation:
      Straße der Verlassenheit^?Strasse der Verlassenheit
      [German] (1991)
    • Translation: Camino Desolación [Spanish] (1992)
    • Translation:
      Bespuće^?Bespuce
      Bespuche
      [Serbian] (1999) [as by Jan Mekdonald]
    • Translation: Desolation Road [Italian] (2014)
  • The Luncheonette of Lost Dreams (1992) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation:
      Die Imbiß-Stube der verlorenen Träume^?Die Imbiss-Stube der verlorenen Traeume
      [German] (1994)
    • Translation: Restoran izgubljenih snova [Serbian] (1996) [as by Jan Mekdonald]
  • Ares Express (2001) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Ares Express [Italian] (2018)
  
  
• Everness
  • 1 Planesrunner (2011) also appeared as:
    • Translation: L'odyssée des mondes [French] (2013)
    • Serializations:
    • Translation: Terra Incognita (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2017)
  • 2 Be My Enemy (2012)
  • 3 Empress of the Sun (2013)
  
  
• India 2047
  • River of Gods (2004) also appeared as:
    • Translation:
      Река Богов^?Reka Bogov
      [Russian] (2006) [as by
      Йен Макдональд^?Yen Makdonal'd
      ]
    • Translation: Le fleuve des dieux [French] (2010)
    • Translation: Cyberabad [German] (2012)
    • Translation:
      Реката на боговете^?Rekata na bogovete
      [Bulgarian] (2019) [as by
      Иън Макдоналд^?Ian Makdonald
      ]
  • The Little Goddess (2005) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Die Kindgöttin [German] (2007)
    • Translation:
      Mica zeiță^?Mica zeita
      [Romanian] (2007)
    • Translation: La petite déesse [French] (2012)
  • The Djinn's Wife (2006) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation:
      Soția Djinului^?Sotia Djinului
      [Romanian] (2010)
    • Translation: L'épouse du djinn [French] (2013)
  • Kyle Meets the River (2006) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Kyle fait la connaissance du fleuve [French] (2013)
  • Sanjeev and Robotwallah (2007) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Sanjiv et Robot-wallah [French] (2013)
  • The Dust Assassin (2008) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: L'assassin-poussière [French] (2013)
  • An Eligible Boy (2008) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Un beau parti [French] (2013)
  • Cyberabad Days (2009) [C] also appeared as:
    • Translation: La petite déesse et autres nouvelles d'une Inde future [French] (2013)
  • Vishnu at the Cat Circus (2009) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Il circo dei gatti di Vishnu [Italian] (2011)
    • Translation: Vishnu au cirque de chats [French] (2013)
  
  
• Luna (Ian McDonald)
  • 1 Luna: New Moon (2015) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Luna [German] (2017)
    • Translation: Luna: Nouvelle lune [French] (2017)
  • 2 Luna: Wolf Moon (2017) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Luna: Wolfsmond [German] (2017)
    • Translation: Luna: Lune du loup [French] (2018)
  • 3 Luna: Moon Rising (2019) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Luna : Lune montante [French] (2019)
    • Translation: Luna: Drachenmond [German] (2019)
  • The Fifth Dragon (2014) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Il quinto dragone [Italian] (2017)
  • The Falls (2015) [SF]
  • The Menace from Farside (2019) [SF]
  
  
• Shian
  • Frooks (1995) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Translation: Frooks [German] (1996)
    • Translation: Frooks [French] (1996)
  • Sacrifice of Fools (1996) also appeared as:
    • Translation: Narrenopfer [German] (1998)
  • Best Defense (unpublished) [SF] only appeared as:
    • Translation: Die beste Verteidigung [German] (1994)

• Out on Blue Six (1989) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Rebellin des Glücks^?Rebellin des Gluecks
    [German] (1991)
• King of Morning, Queen of Day (1991) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    König der Dämmerung, Königin des Lichts^?Koenig der Daemmerung, Koenigin des Lichts
    [German] (1992)
  • Translation: Roi du matin, reine du jour [French] (2008)
• Hearts, Hands and Voices (1992) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Broken Land (1992)
  • Translation:
    Herzen, Hände und Stimmen^?Herzen, Haende und Stimmen
    [German] (1993)
  • Translation:
    Inimi, mâini, glasuri^?Inimi, mahini, glasuri
    Inimi, maini, glasuri
    [Romanian] (1995)
• Necroville (1994) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Terminal Café (1994)
  • Translation: Necroville [Romanian] (1995)
  • Translation: Necroville [German] (1996)
  • Translation:
    Nécroville^?Necroville
    [French] (1996)
  • Translation: Nekrovil [Serbian] (1999) [as by Jan McDonnald]
• Brasyl (2007) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Brasil [Portuguese] (2008)
  • Translation: Brasyl [French] (2009)
  • Translation: Brasyl [Hungarian] (2014)
  • Translation: Brasyl [Portuguese] (2015)
• The Dervish House (2010) also appeared as:
  • Translation: A dervisház [Hungarian] (2012)
  • Translation: La maison des derviches [French] (2012)
  • Translation:
    Дервишката къща^?Dervishkata kashta
    [Bulgarian] (2015) [as by
    Иън Макдоналд^?Ian Makdonald
    ]
• Hopeland (2023)
• The Wilding (2024)

• Empire Dreams (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Sternenträume [German] (1993)
  • Translation: Etat de rêve [French] (1997)
• Speaking in Tongues (1992)
• Floating Dogs: Additional Stories for the Best of Ian McDonald (2016)
• The Best of Ian McDonald (2016)
• Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone and The Tear (2019)

• Watching Trees Grow / Tendeléo's Story (2002) with Peter F. Hamilton

• Kling Klang Klatch (1992) [graphic format] with David Lyttleton
• Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone (1994) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Schere schneidet Papier wickelt Stein [German] (1994)
  • Translation: Forbici vince carta vince pietra [Italian] (1997)
  • Translation: Kivi-paperi-sakset [Finnish] (1997)
• Tendeléo's Story (2000)
• The Twenty Five Mile High Club (2002)
• Il circo dei gatti di Vishnu [Italian] (2011)
• Time Was (2018) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Le temps fut [French] (2020)
• The Guile (2018)
• The Menace from Farside (2019)

• Baron Munchausen / Münchhausen^?Baron Munchausen / Muenchhausen
  • The Further Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Gulf War (1996)

• The Islands of the Dead (1982) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Die Inseln der Toten [German] (1987)
  • Translation: L'isola dei morti [Italian] (1992)
• The Catharine Wheel (Our Lady of Tharsis) (1984) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Catharine Wheel (1984)
  • Translation: Das Rad der Katharina [German] (1993)
  • Translation: La ruota di Santa Caterina [Italian] (1994)
  • Translation: La roue de Sainte-Catherine [French] (1997)
  • Translation:
    キャサリン・ホイール(タルシスの聖女)^?きゃさりん・ほいーる（たるしす の せいじょ）
    Kyasarin Hoiiru (Tarushisu no Seijo)
    [Japanese] (2010) [as by
    イアン・マクドナルド^?Ian Makudonarudo
    ]
• Christian (1984) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Christian [German] (1988)
  • Translation: Christian [German] (1993)
  • Translation: Christian [French] (1997)
• Scenes from a Shadowplay (1985) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Szenen aus einem Schattenspiel [German] (1993)
  • Translation: Scènes d'un théâtre d'ombres [French] (1997)
• Empire Dreams (1985) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Empire Dreams (Ground Control to Major Tom) (1988)
  • Translation: San [Croatian] (1988)
  • Translation:
    帝国の夢^?Teikoku no Yume
    [Japanese] (1992) [as by
    イアン・マクドナルド^?Ian Makudonarudo
    ]
  • Translation:
    Sternenträume^?Sternentraeume
    [German] (1993)
  • Translation: Rêves impériaux [French] (1997)
• Approaching Perpendicular (1988)
• King of Morning, Queen of Day (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Rei da Manhã, Rainha do Dia [Portuguese] (1990)
  • Translation:
    König der Dämmerung, Königin des Lichts^?Koenig der Daemmerung, Koenigin des Lichts
    [German] (1993)
  • Translation: Roi du matin, reine du jour [French] (1997)
• Radio Marrakech (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Radio Marrakesch [German] (1989)
  • Translation: Radio Marrakesch [German] (1993)
  • Translation: Radio Marrakech [French] (1997)
• The Island of the Dead (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Die Insel der Toten [German] (1993)
  • Translation: L'île des morts [French] (1997)
• Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Van Goghs unvollendetes Porträt des Königs der Schmerzen^?Van Goghs unvollendetes Portraet des Koenigs der Schmerzen
    [German] (1988)
  • Translation: Portrait inachevé du roi de la douleur par Van Gogh [French] (1997)
• Visits to Remarkable Cities (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Reisen in einzigartige Städte [German] (1993)
  • Translation: En des cités singulières [French] (1997)
• Vivaldi (1988) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Vivaldi [German] (1989)
  • Translation: Vivaldi [German] (1993)
  • Translation: Vivaldi [French] (1997)
• Rainmaker Cometh (1989) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Viene l'uomo della pioggia [Italian] (1993)
• Romy Dances (1989) only appeared as:
  • Translation: Romy tanzt [German] (1989)
• Gardenias (1989) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Gardenien [German] (1991)
  • Translation: Gardenias [Spanish] (1995)
• Listen (1989) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    耳を澄まして^?みみ を すまして
    Mimi o Sumashite
    [Japanese] (1996) [as by
    イアン・マクドナルド^?Ian Makudonarudo
    ]
• Atomic Avenue (1990) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Atomic Avenue [German] (1990)
• Speaking in Tongues (1990)
• Fronds (1990)
• Winning (1990) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Siegen ist alles [German] (1992)
• King of Morning, Queen of Day (excerpt) (1991)
• Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1991) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Fragmente einer Analyse eines Falles von Hysterie [German] (1993)
• Floating Dogs (1991) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Treibende Hunde [German] (1995)
  • Translation:
    フローティング・ドッグズ^?Furōtingu Dogguzu
    Furootingu Dogguzu
    [Japanese] (1998) [as by
    イアン・マクドナルド^?Ian Makudonarudo
    ]
  • Translation: L'ultima destinazione [Italian] (2002)
• Brody Loved the Masai Woman (1992)
• The Best and the Rest of James Joyce (1992)
• Fat Tuesday (1992) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Fetter Dienstag [German] (1994)
• Innocents (1992) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Die Unschuldigen [German] (1994)
• The Broken Land (excerpt) (1992)
• Kling Klang Klatch (1992) [graphic format]
• Big Chair (1992) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Der grosse Stuhl [German] (1996)
• Some Strange Desire (1993) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Sonderwünsche [German] (1996)
• The Undifferentiated Object of Desire (1993)
• Legitimate Targets (1993) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Legitime Ziele [German] (1995)
  • Translation: Legitimne Mete [Serbian] (1999) [as by Jan Mekdonald]
• Blue Motel (1994) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Blue Motel [German] (1998)
• Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone (1994) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Forbici vince carta vince pietra [Italian] (1994)
  • Translation: Schere schneidet Papier wickelt Stein [German] (1994)
  • Translation: Kivi-paperi-sakset [Finnish] (1997)
• Steam (1995)
• The Time Garden: A Faery Story (1995)
• Islington (1996)
• Recording Angel (1996) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Angelo registratore [Italian] (2009)
• Faithful (1996)
• Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1997)
• The Five O'Clock Whistle (1997)
• After Kerry (1997) also appeared as:
  • Translation:
    Après Kerry^?Apres Kerry
    [French] (2001)
• The Days of Solomon Gursky (1998) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Les travaux et les jours de Solomon Gursky [French] (1999)
• Breakfast on the Moon, with Georges (1999)
• White Noise (2000)
• Ares Express (excerpt) (2001)
• The Twenty Five Mile High Club (2002)
• The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars (2002) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Le vieux cosmonaute et l'ouvrier du bâtiment rêvent de Mars [French] (2010) [as by Iain McDonald]
• The Hidden Place (2002)
• Written in the Stars (2005)
• Verthandi's Ring (2007) also appeared as:
  • Translation: L'anneau de Verthandi [French] (2009)
  • Translation: L'anneau de Verthandi [French] (2009) [as by Ian MacDonald]
• The Tear (2008)
• [A Ghost Samba] (2008) also appeared as:
  • Variant: (A Ghost Samba) (2016)
• A Little School (2009)
• Tonight We Fly (2010)
• Digging (2011)
• A Smart Well-Mannered Uprising of the Dead (2011) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Une révolte astucieuse et courtoise des morts [French] (2012)
• Driftings (2013)
• The Queen of the Night's Aria (2013) also appeared as:
  • Variant: The Queen of Night's Aria (2013)
  • Translation: El aria de la reina de la noche [Spanish] (2016)
  • Translation: L'aria della regina della notte [Italian] (2017)
  • Translation: A ária da rainha da noite [Portuguese] (2018)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Refrigerated (2013)
• Tois futurs [French] (2013)
• Nanonauts! In Battle with Tiny Death-Subs! (2014)
• Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan (2015) also appeared as:
  • Variant: Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathagan (2015)
  • Translation: Botanica Veneris [Italian] (2019)
• Women's Christmas (2016)
• Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae (2018)
• Time Was (2018) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Le temps fut [French] (2020)
• The Guile (2018) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Die List [German] (2022)
• Twelve Letters to My Daughter on the Moon (2019)
• Bird. Spirit. Land. (2021)
• Four Green Fields (2022)
• Sigh No More (2023)
• Augher, Clogher, Fivemiletown (2024)

• Forum
  • The Rose Backwards (1993)
  • Walls, Mirrors, Pussy-Cats and Assorted Vegetables (1996)

• About the Nominees for the 1989 Nebula Awards (1989) with Neal Barrett, Jr. and Gregory Benford and Lois McMaster Bujold and Orson Scott Card and Bradley Denton and Thomas M. Disch and George Alec Effinger and William Gibson and Steven Gould and John Kessel and Jack McDevitt and Judith Moffett and James Morrow and Pat Murphy and Steven Popkes and Mike Resnick and Lucius Shepard and Lewis Shiner and Norman Spinrad and George Turner and Howard Waldrop and Walter Jon Williams and Connie Willis and Jane Yolen only appeared as:
  • Variant: About the Nominees (1989)
• Author's Afterword — The Last Train to Kajiado Junction (1991)
• Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (1994)
• Thanks and Acknowledgments (Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone) (1994) also appeared as:
  • Translation: Danksagung (Schere schneidet Papier wickelt Stein) [German] (1994)
• Crib Notes for 'Chaga' (1994)
• Acknowledgments etc. (1994) only appeared as:
  • Translation: Danksagung etc. [German] (1996)
• Preface (Chaga) (1995)
• Preface (Evolution's Shore) (1995)
• Letter (Interzone #110) (1996)
• Ian McDonald (Transluminal) (1999)
• Introduction (Iron Mosaic) (2004)
• Author Bios (Constellations) (2005) with Brian W. Aldiss and Tony Ballantyne and Stephen Baxter and Keith Brooke and Eric Brown and Colin Greenland and Gwyneth Jones and Roger Levy and James Lovegrove and Paul J. McAuley and Alastair Reynolds and Adam Roberts and Justina Robson and Ian Watson [only as by Brian W. Aldiss and Tony Ballantyne and Stephen Baxter and Keith Brooke and Eric Brown and Colin Greenland and Gwyneth Jones and Roger Levy and James Lovegrove and Paul McAuley and Ian McDonald and Alastair Reynolds and Adam Roberts and Justina Robson and Ian Watson]
• A Refusal to Sign the Mundane Manifesto (2006)
• Sir Arthur C. Clarke Remembered (2008) with Paul Heskett and Edward James and Martin McGrath and Graham Sleight
• Introduction (The Land at the End of the Working Day) (2008)
• Silent Running (2009)
• Palari (2014)
• Defying Gravity: The Science Fiction of Zero-G (2015) with Jody Lynn Nye and Corey Ostman and Vanessa Rose Phin and Karen Traviss
• Energy in SF: A Conversation (2016) with Stephanie Saulter
• Dramatis Personae (Luna: Moon Rising) (2019)
• Lunar Calendar (2019)
• What Has Gone Before (Luna: Moon Rising) (2019)
• "Als der Mensch den Mond betrat ..." [German] (2019)
• Proverbs of Hell for Writers (2021)
• Thoughts on the Gifts!: An Instant Fanzine (2023)

• Childhood's End (2014) by Arthur C. Clarke

• Locus Interview
  • Ian McDonald: The Unpredictable Country (2006) with Ian McDonald
  • Ian McDonald: On Xenoforming (2014) with Ian McDonald

• Ian McDonald in Conversation (1992) by Michael Cobley and Gary Gibson
• Ian McDonald (1993) by Tommy Ferguson
• Interview mit Ian McDonald [German] (1998) by
  Lutz Gräfe^?Lutz Graefe
• Future Remix (2001) by Nick Gevers
• A Bit of the Old Cosmic Stuff (2002) by Liz Holliday
• Ian McDonald: The Unpredictable Country (2006) by Ian McDonald
• Author Spotlight: Ian McDonald (2011) by Erin Stocks
• Interview: Ian McDonald (2012) by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley
• Interview - Ian McDonald [French] (2012) by
  Sébastien Cevey^?Sebastien Cevey
• Author Spotlight: Ian McDonald (2013) by Amber Barkley
• Ian McDonald: On Xenoforming (2014) by Ian McDonald
• A Few Words with Ian McDonald (2015) by uncredited
• Howling at the Lunar Landscape: A Conversation with Ian McDonald (2017) by Chris Urie
• Interview: Ian McDonald (2017) by Jeremy Szal
• Joy and Wonder: A Conversation with Ian McDonald (2023) by Arley Sorg