Ian McDonald has quietly announced that the good folks over at Gollancz will publish a collection of his ‘River of Gods’ stories, tentatively titled Cyberabad Days, in late 2008.  This is incredibly cool for a bunch of reasons.  First, Ian is one of the best short story writers working in the field today, and his ‘Cyberabad’ stories are some of his best and most important work. Second, it will reprint “The Dust Assassin”, his story from The Starry Rift which is simply eye-peelingly good.  And it will include a new novella, “Vishnu at the Cat Circus”. This will be one of the major collections of the year, and is a book I’m seriously looking forward to. I can’t wait for it!