*Cyberabad Days* returns to the India of 2047 as featured in Ian McDonald’s acclaimed novel River of Gods. A new, muscular superpower of two billion people in an age of new nations, 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 outnumber females four to one. *Cyberabad Days* is a cycle of seven stories, three Hugo nominees and one Hugo winner among them, as well as an original thirty-one-thousand-word novella. Welcome back to the fierce, dazzling, thrilling world of *River of Gods.* **Featuring:** **Sanjeev and Robotwallah** (selected for both *The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection* and *Year’s Best SF 13* ): A boy-soldier roboteer from the War of Separation learns that war may be hell, but peace is harder. **Kyle meets the River** : A young American in Varanasi learns the true meaning of “nation building” in the early days of a new country. **The Dust Assassin** : In the time of water-wars, the daughter of a powerful water-raja learns that revenge revenge is a slow and subtle art. **An Eligible Boy** : Love and marriage is never easy when there four men for every women. But it should be easy with an Artificial Intelligence matchmaker. Shouldn’t it? **The Little Goddess** (Hugo nominee for best novella of 2006): In Kathmandu, a child-goddess discovers what lies on the other side of godhood and what divinty really means. **The Djinn’s Wife** (Hugo for best novelette and BSFA short-fiction winner of 2007): A minor Delhi celebrity falls in love with an artificial intelligence, but is it a marriage of heaven and hell? **Vishnu at the Cat Circus** : A genetically improved “Brahmin”child finds himself left behind as he grows through the final generation of humanity. **Praise for *Cyberabad Days*** : “The sheer number of ideas and plotlines can sometimes make McDonald’s novels seems dense, but the stories here are sharp, focused and witty.” — *BBCFocus* “McDonald’s India engulfs you with an overwhelming, perfumed, stinky embrace. A hugely impressive collection. Seven nifty, witty stories.” — *SFX* “McDonald excels at conveying, in a gorgeous melange of sensory impressions, an India transformed by AIs, nanotech, robots and cybernetics: the subcontinent is chaotic and lurid, shot through with devotion to eternal Hindu gods and divided by internecine conflict. McDonald gives a refreshing take on the future from a non-western viewpoint.” — *The Guardian*