Ian McDonald bibliography

List of works by or about the British author Ian McDonald.

Desolation Road series

 * Desolation Road (1988)
 * The Luncheonette of Lost Dreams (1992) (short story)
 * Ares Express (2001)

Chaga saga

 * "Toward Kilimanjaro" (1990) (short story)
 * Chaga (1995, US: Evolution's Shore)
 * Kirinya (1997)
 * "Tendeléo's Story" (2000) (short story)

India in 2047

 * River of Gods (2004)
 * The Djinn's Wife (2006) in Asimov's Science Fiction – Hugo Award for Best Novelette winner

Everness series

 * Planesrunner (2011)
 * Be My Enemy (2012)
 * Empress of the Sun (2014)

Luna series

 * New Moon (2015) - BSFA award nominee, winner of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award
 * Wolf Moon (2017)
 * Moon Rising (2019)

Standalone novels

 * Out on Blue Six (1989)
 * King of Morning, Queen of Day (1991)
 * Hearts, Hands and Voices (1992, US: The Broken Land)
 * Necroville (1994, US: Terminal Café)
 * Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone (1994) - 2013 e-book includes The Tear
 * Sacrifice of Fools (1996)
 * Brasyl (2007) – Hugo Award nominee, winner of the BSFA award, Nominated for the £50,000 Warwick Prize for Writing
 * The Dervish House (2010) – Hugo Award nominee, Clarke Award nominee, winner of the BSFA award
 * Time Was (2018)
 * Hopeland (2023)

Graphic novels

 * Kling Klang Klatch (1992) (graphic novel, illustrated by David Lyttleton)

Collections

 * Empire Dreams (1988)
 * Speaking in Tongues (1992)
 * Cyberabad Days (2009)
 * The Best of Ian McDonald (2015)

Short stories

 * "The Islands of the Dead" (1982)
 * "The Catharine Wheel" (Our Lady of Tharsis) (1984) (also published as "The Catharine Wheel")
 * "Christian" (1984)
 * "Scenes from a Shadowplay" (1985)
 * "Empire Dreams" (1985)" (also appeared as: Empire Dreams; Ground Control to Major Tom)
 * "Approaching Perpendicular" (1988)
 * "Radio Marrakech" (1988)
 * "The Island of the Dead" (1988)
 * "Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh" (1988)
 * "Visits to Remarkable Cities" (1988)
 * "Vivaldi" (1988)
 * "King of Morning, Queen of Day" (1988)
 * "Gardenias" (1989)
 * "Rainmaker Cometh" (1989)
 * "Listen" (1989)
 * "Atomic Avenue" (1990)
 * "Speaking in Tongues" (1990)
 * "Winning" (1990)
 * "Fronds" (1990)
 * "Toward Kilimanjaro" [Chaga] (1990)
 * "Floating Dogs" (1991)
 * "King of Morning, Queen of Day" (excerpt)" (1991)
 * "Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" (1991)
 * "Brody Loved the Masai Woman" (1992)
 * "Innocents" (1992)
 * "The Best and the Rest of James Joyce" (1992)
 * "Fat Tuesday" (1992)
 * "Big Chair" (1992)
 * "Legitimate Targets" (1993)
 * "Some Strange Desire" (1993)
 * "The Undifferentiated Object of Desire" (1993)
 * "Blue Motel" (1994)
 * "Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone" (1994)
 * "Steam" (1995)
 * "The Time Garden: A Faery Story" (1995)
 * "Frooks" (1995)
 * "Faithful" (1996)
 * "Islington" (1996)
 * "Recording Angel" (1996)
 * "The Further Adventures of Baron Munchausen: The Gulf War" (1996)
 * "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" (1997)
 * "The Five O'Clock Whistle" (1997)
 * "After Kerry" (1997)
 * "The Days of Solomon Gursky" (1998)
 * "Breakfast on the Moon, with Georges" (1999)
 * "Tendeléo's Story" [Chaga] (2000)
 * "The Twenty Five Mile High Club" (2002)
 * "The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars" (2002)
 * "The Hidden Place" (2002)
 * "Written in the Stars" (2005) in Constellations
 * "The Little Goddess" (2005)
 * "Kyle Meets the River" (2006)
 * "Sanjeev and Robotwallah" (2007)
 * "Verthandi's Ring" (2007)
 * "The Tear" (2008)
 * "[A Ghost Samba]" (2008)
 * "The Dust Assassin" (2008)
 * "An Eligible Boy" (2008)
 * "Vishnu at the Cat Circus" (2009)
 * "A Little School" (2009)
 * "Tonight We Fly" (2010)
 * "Digging" (2011)
 * "A Smart Well-Mannered Uprising of the Dead" (2011)
 * "Driftings" (2013)
 * "The Queen of the Night's Aria" (2013) in Old Mars (anthology)
 * "The Revolution Will Not Be Refrigerated" (2013) in Twelve Tomorrows 2014 (anthology)
 * "Nanonauts! In Battle with Tiny Death-subs!" (2014) in Robot Uprisings (anthology)
 * "The Fifth Dragon" (2014, novelette) in Reach for Infinity (anthology)
 * "Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan" (2015) in Old Venus (anthology)

Critical studies and reviews of McDonald's work

 * Clute, John, & Nicholls, Peter (eds). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993. ISBN 0-312-09618-6.
 * Lennard, John, Ian McDonald: Chaga / Evolution's Shore. Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.
 * Reviews Planesrunner.