![]() ![]() Published between 19, the novels Chaga (US title Evolution's Shore) and Kirinya, with the novella Tendeléo's Story, form the 'Chaga Saga', which chronicles the effects of an alien flora introduced to Earth, and also analyses the AIDS crisis in Africa. He published a sequel, Ares Express, in 2001. McDonald's debut novel was Desolation Road (1988), which takes place on a far future Mars in a town that develops around an oasis in the terraformed Martian desert. ![]() He has also worked in TV consultancy within Northern Ireland, contributing scripts to the Northern Irish Sesame Workshop production of Sesame Tree. McDonald sold his first story to a local Belfast magazine when he was 22, and in 1987 became a full-time writer. He lived through the whole of the ' Troubles' (1968–1999), and his sensibility has been permanently shaped by coming to understand Northern Ireland as a post-colonial society imposed on an older culture. He moved to Belfast when he was five and has lived there ever since. Ian McDonald was born in 1960, in Manchester, to a Scottish father and Irish mother. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies. Ian McDonald (born 1960) is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. ![]()
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