![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The global information network is now inhabited by artificial intelligences, phonetically called aeais in the novel, of varying levels of intelligence.Īeais higher than level 2.5 (able to pass the Turing test and imitate humans) are banned, and their destruction (" excommunication") is the responsibility of " Krishna Cops", like Mr. This future India has become balkanized into a number of smaller competing states, such as Awadh, Bharat, and Bangla. The novel follows a number of different characters' viewpoints on and around the date of 15 August 2047, the centenary of India's partition and independence from the colonial British Raj. It was followed by a short story collection called Cyberabad Days in 2009. The novel won the British Science Fiction Award in 2004 and was nominated for a Hugo. It depicts a futuristic India in 2047, a century after its independence from Britain, characterized both by ancient traditions and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligences, robots and nanotechnology. River of Gods is a 2004 science fiction novel by British writer Ian McDonald. ![]()
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