Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, this was his real name, was born on July 11, 1913 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As an expert of Chinese politics, he wrote a number of important essays. As a fiction writer, he’s best known as Cordwainer Smith and his science fiction stories that belong to the fictional universe of the Instrumentality of Man.
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, this was his full name, was born on July 10, 1903 in the village of Dorridge, England. John Wyndham is famous especially for his novels: “The Day of the Triffids” (1951), “The Kraken Wakes” (1953), “Re-Birth” or “The Chrysalids” (1955) and “The Midwich Cuckoos” (1957).
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.
