Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction

By Jerome Winter

This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition.

Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666956805
• ISBN13: 9781666956801
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"