Ian McDonaldIan McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England by an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He used to live in a house built in the back garden of C. S. Lewis's childhood home but has since moved into central Belfast where he now lives, exploring intrests like cats, contemplative religion, bonsai, bicycles and comic collecting. He debuted 1982 with the short story "The Island of the Dead" in the short-lived British magazine Extro. His first novel, Desolation Road, was published in 1988. In 2000, Ian joined a Belfast production company, Extreme Productions, as a Network Development Researcher. This basically means coming up with lots of ideas. Ian has also written a few short stories set in the same environment as Desolation Road. Desolation Road topped the 1989 Locus poll for best first novel in 1988 and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 1990.Desolation Road StoriesThese stories are set on a future colonized Mars, somewhat reminiscent of Ray Bradbury's Mars. At Intersection (WorldCon 1995) Ian mentioned wanting to get an anthology of "Desolation Road" stories published and I really hope that such a project gets done. There's also a TV series in the works. (1997-05-09: Together with a joint Australian-Indian-British production company, Ian is currently developing Desolation Road as a TV series. He describes it as "Northern Exposure on Mars".)
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