New Releases by Ian Mcdonald

From the vantage point of later middle life, Ian McDonald''s collection looks into the heart of time passing: the coming death of ageing parents, the old men, the ''archive'' of a disappearing Guyana who die one by one, the sight of ''my own lines of age'' and the loss of pleasure in the glittering carnival of the senses. There are rich blessings of the arrival of a new child coming unexpected at this stage of life; and the consolations from books and in the power of art to preserve - at least for a time. But the very joys are made more piquant by the inescapable sense of the transitoriness of all things. Poems of moving domestic intimacy and humour (''To alarm their father''s half to death / New-born babies hold their breath''), valedictory requiems for the characters who have given Georgetown life its flavour and regret for the country''s loss of civility during its darkest recent years and songs in praise of nature are all part of a vision which looks into the darkness but says, ''Yes, it is as you say, / But let us get just one thing straight: / There is beauty in the world / ... And the star-tree blossoms in the night, / Night that will have an end'' and asserts, ''Between silence and silence, there should be only praise.'' Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.

Peter Hamilton brings his trademark flair for narrative sweep and epic ideas to a short novel that tells the story of an near- immortal mankind that grew from the Roman Empire. Paired with WATCHING TREES GROW is TENDELEO¿S STORY the Theodore Sturgeon award-winning new Chaga short novel from the acclaimed Ian McDonald.

The Bucks Start Here reveals the secrets of seven e-champions who have transformed their sectors, either as start-up pioneers (such as Jeff Bezos, Founder and Chief Executive of Amazon.com), Internet business developers (such as Michael Dell) or Internet innovators in long-established companies (such as Mike Harris of the Prudential Corporation). The Bucks Start Here helps Internet entrepreneurs understand how technology is reshaping society and business, and how they can begin to develop their own vision. It explores key social trends and what effects these can have on customer power, but most importantly it provides a set of tools and basic framework for building a digital business.

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A meteorite falls on Africa''s Mount Kilimanjaro and the area is transformed into a new world which provides the local inhabitants with all the necessities of life, as well as immortality. The story is told by an Irish woman reporter who is sent to investigate the meteorite.

2063, un tiers de la population mondiale est constitué de ressuscités par la nanotechnologie. Ils vivent dans des ghettos. Un soir, des jeunes gens se mêlent à eux...

Los Angeles has its Necroville or "City of the Dead"--off-limits to living humans--but on the Night of the Dead, Necroville throws the wildest party L.A. has ever seen and mysterious events threaten all of humanity

First volume in an SF trilogy which charts the spread of an alien flora across the face of the planet, seeded on Earth by a meteorite strike in Kenya. By the author of "Hearts, hands and voices".

Ian McDonald''s poetry embraces Caribbean possibility with a romantic fervour which still acknowledges what is harsh and painful in the region. He has both the gift to see ''the ibis-bird in pigeons'' and an ironical consciousness of the poet''s gilding eye. There are love poems of lyric grace and stunning simplicity; exuberant paeans to nature in all its beauty, fierceness and cruelty; narratives which grip and characters who are powerfully memorable. Here is a celebration of life which is made all the more intense by the consciousness of mortality which lurks behind every vivid occasion. Readers who have enjoyed Ian McDonald''s recent work in the much praised collections Mercy Ward and Essequibo will be delighted by these earlier poems, only a few of which have been available to date in anthologies and Caribbean literary journals. Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.

KLING KLANG KLATCH is set in a superficially glittering world that, if not exactly human, reflects humanity''s desires, corruption, and racism at a fundamental level. Ian McDonald''s (Desolation Road) blackly bizarre wit and David Lyttleton''s (Punch) razor-sharp eye for detail have created a unique fantasy with a delicious streak of dark humor.

This collection is an invaluable academic selection and will provide a fine introduction for the general reader interested in the lyricism of Caribbean poetry.

An amazing roller coaster ride through the frontiers of the imagination from the author of the award-winning King of Morning, Queen of Day. Here are eleven previously uncollected tales filled with magic, humor, and the stunning realism that can surface only in the most well-conceived fantasies.