The novel “River of Gods” by Ian McDonald was published for the first time in 2004. It won the British Science Fiction Award.

In 2047 the hundredth anniversary of India’s independence is approaching but in time it fragmented into a number of states. The Ganges River continues to be sacred to everybody but one of the new independent states, Awadh, built a dam and for this reason it’s on the brink of a war with the neighboring state of Bharat.