# Ian McDonald bibliography

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

## Novels
### Desolation Road series

* Desolation Road (1988)
* The Luncheonette of Lost Dreams (1992) (short story)
* Ares Express (2001)

### 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)
* The Djinn's Wife (2006) in Asimov's Science Fiction – Hugo Award for Best Novelette winner

### Everness series

* Planesrunner (2011)
* Be My Enemy (2012)
* Empress of the Sun (2014)

### Luna series

* New Moon (2015) - BSFA award nominee, winner of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award
* Wolf Moon (2017)
* Moon Rising (2019)

### 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, 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)
* Hopeland (2023)

## 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)
* 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)
* "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)
* "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" (2015) in Old Venus (anthology)

## 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.