River of gods

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• mattbd · May 20, 2011 · Recommends

  …spirit of it when things have changed so much in the meantime. I'd certainly want to watch it though. However, I would LOVE to see a film adaptation of one particular more recent cyberpunk-style novel, River of Gods by Ian McDonald. It's staggeringly brilliant, and recent enough that it wouldn't be dated in the same way.

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• sorokod · Oct 26, 2025 · Recommends

  River of Gods by Ian McDonald Indian politics 100 years following independence, forbidden AIs that pass a predefined threshold and policemen that chase them, individuals who have all their gender indicators surgically…

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• sorokod · Dec 24, 2016 · Recommends

  For sci-fi with some Indian spice have a look at River of Gods by Ian McDonald

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• puranjay · Sep 2, 2015 · Mentions

  There seems to be a western fascination with the idea of breaking India into different countries. River of Gods, a sci-fi novel by Ian McDonald, imagines India as 12 separate nations. I don't ascribe this to malice, but to sheer bewilderment. From a rational perspective, India should not really exist. It is just…

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• partisan · Apr 8, 2015 · Mentions

  Past: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller, Current: River of Gods by Ian McDonald, Planned: Delivered from Distraction by Edward Hallowell

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• hutzlibu · May 13, 2023 · Mentions

  To make that short: “Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.” ― Ian McDonald, River of Gods But I think is quite unlikely, that they go from dumb to almighty without visible transition.

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