Desolation Road Universe Series by Ian McDonald

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  • Desolation Road (Desolation Road Universe #1)
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    Desolation Road (Desolation Road Universe #1)

    Ian McDonald

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1988

    It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational 'Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr... more

  • Ares Express (Desolation Road Universe #2)
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    Ares Express (Desolation Road Universe #2)

    Ian McDonald

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2000

    Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's "Desolation Road," this novel is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends... more

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