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River of Gods ReviewIan McDonald's River of Gods envisions India in the year 2047 - a country still torn between the third and first worlds. In the holy and profane city of Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges, ten people come together come together to start wars, end marriages, commit terrible crimes, fall in love and change the world.
McDonald describes Varanasi in loving, intricate and believable detail. He has a wonderful eye for the way technology changes the way people live and yet leaves them essentially the same as they ever were. As foreign as his future can sometimes be, it is also eerily familiar - you find yourself believing in places like a boat town on the banks of the river where extra-legal organizations conduct remote-controlled gender-nullification surgery and create super-intelligent computer programs. McDonald uses this familiarity to discuss topics that have relevance to our lives today, especially the relationship between India and first world nations such as the US and European countries and the internal divisions that threaten to tear this fledgling nation apart. Although he doesn't spare Western imperialism, McDonald doesn't paint India as a despoiled saint. He sees the country in all its contradictory glory and shame, and gives the Western reader an edifying and fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of this fractured nation.
McDonald's characters span all levels of society, and most of them are fresh and original. There are some beautiful touches here, such as Nandha, a policeman so obsessed with doing his job that he forgets about right and wrong, Najia, a reporter discovering her conscience and her humanity, or Khan, a politician who wants to do the right thing but finds himself struggling with socially unacceptable desires. Some of the characters are a little less involving - Nandha's wife Parvati is a standard under-appreciated, bored housewife, and the American scientist Lisa Durnau never has much more to do than be amazed. Even the least developed characters in River of Gods, however, have the scent of reality about them. They form an intricate tapestry of plot that carries the reader along breathlessly, and although the details of McDonald's world occasionally threaten to overwhelm the plot, he masterfully manages to maneuver the reader towards his satisfying conclusion.
River of Gods is the best kind of science fiction you could find - a view of the future that teaches us about the present while still telling a good story. Highly recommended.River of Gods Overview

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