Ian McDonald — Desolation Road

Ian McDonald — Desolation Road
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It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality Adam Black’s Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational ’Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged Dr. Alimantando, the town’s founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child-grown in a fruit jar; Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with—and married—the same woman.