"it absolutely bowled me over ... some of the most beautiful prose imaginable" - Jo Walton

"very, very recommended!" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars

"This book is marvellous, weird, odd and at times poetic" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars

The journey to Desolation Road will introduce you to every conceivable abnormality; from its founding father - Dr. Alimantando, a scientist trying to understand the mysteries of time-travel - to the wonderfully strange identical triplets who fell in love with - and married - the same woman.

There's nowhere quite like Desolation Road. Once you get there, you may never be the same again.

Desolation Road pays homage to David Byrne's Catherine Wheel, to Ray Bradbury's entire canon and to Jack Vance, blending all these disparate creators in a way that surprises, delights, then surprises and delights again * Cory Doctorow *
it absolutely bowled me over . . . some of the most beautiful prose imaginable . . . If you ever want to demonstrate how different science fiction can be, what an incredible range and sweep of things are published with a little spaceship on the spine, Desolation Road is a shining datapoint * Jo Walton *
This is the kind of novel I long to find yet seldom do . . . extraordinary and more than that * Philip José Farmer *
Flavoured with a voice that blends the delightful prose of Jack Vance with the idiosyncratic stylings of Cordwainer Smith * SF Site *

Ian McDonald was born in Manchester in 1960. His family moved to Northern Ireland in 1965. He now lives in Belfast and works in TV production. The author of many previous novels, including the groundbreaking Chaga books set in Africa, Ian McDonald has long been at the cutting edge of SF. RIVER OF GODS won the BSFA award in 2005, BRASYL won in it in 2007 and THE DERVISH HOUSE in 2010.