Cyberabad Days - Ian McDonald
Category: Sci-Fi
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
Tags: Sci-Fi
The world: Cyberabad is the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water-wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity and a population where males out-number females four to one. India herself has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas., Cyberabad is a collection of 7 stories:, Sanjeev and Robotwallah What happens to the boy-soldier roboteers when the war of Separation is over?, Kyle meets the River A young American in Varanas learns the true meaning of nation building in the early days of a new country., The Dust Assassin Feuding Rajasthan water-rajas find that revenge is a slow, subtle process., An Eligible Boy Love and marriage should be plain-sailing when your matchmaker is a soap-star artificial intelligence., The Little Goddess Hugo nominee Best Novella 2006. In nea
