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What?? You don't want to read SF/F by dead white problematic men? Cool. You'd rather read stories by one of our own?? Cool-er! Because i've got you covered, with this here thread on some fine recent-ish short fiction by Indian writers you can read online right now...
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From the one-&-only Vandana Singh, this title story from her latest collection, Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories explores new concepts in machine design/function by way of an engineering exam...
https://www.tor.com/2015/04/29/ambiguity-machines-an-examination-vandana-singh/ #IndianSF
https://www.tor.com/2015/04/29/ambiguity-machines-an-examination-vandana-singh/ #IndianSF
The Song Between Worlds – from Devourers-author @IndrapramitDas, who just won a Shirley Jackson award – is about a 'musical' encounter, between a privileged earth-born space tourist and a Martian shepherd
https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/indra-das-short-story-song-between-worlds.html #IndianSF
https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/indra-das-short-story-song-between-worlds.html #IndianSF
From the author of Domechild, @nameshiv comes 'And Now His Lordship is Laughing', a gutting tale of revenge with a grandmother dollmaker & set against the backdrop of the 1943 Bengal famine. Nebula/Hugo nominated.
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/and-now-his-lordship-is-laughing/ #IndianSF
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/and-now-his-lordship-is-laughing/ #IndianSF
The gripping title story from @divyastweets' fabulous 2019 collection, Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and other Possible Situations. Keep an eye out for her upcoming debut novel, Machinehood.
https://uncannymagazine.com/article/contingency-plans-apocalypse/ #IndianSF
https://uncannymagazine.com/article/contingency-plans-apocalypse/ #IndianSF
An act of compassion puts an Indian circus artist in India on a collision course with a terrifying supernatural power in @miminality's novelette, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light: https://www.tor.com/2019/01/23/his-footsteps-through-darkness-and-light-mimi-mondal/ #IndianSF
Written in the form of a bibliography, @her_nibsen's Nebula/Hugo-nominated, Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island, is a great horror story with f/f cannibal romance http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-excerpts-from-an-annotated-bibliography-on-the-cannibal-women-of-ratnabar-island/ #IndianSF
More horror? weird fiction? Then read @flightofsand's title story from his newest collection, Come Tomorrow & Other Tales of Bangalore Terror. A fabulous ghost story that includes a ghost's story. The ghost btw is Blr's famous naaLe ba bhoota... https://annatambour.net/ComeTomorrow-JayaprakashSathyamurthy.htm #IndianSF
Magic, memory & dreams all collide in @prashatsa's tale of resistance and culture, In Seven Dreams of a Valley
http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/seven-dreams-of-a-valley/ #IndianSF
http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/seven-dreams-of-a-valley/ #IndianSF
One of my ALL-TIME favourite short stories, Pandal Food by @samitbasu. First published in Fantasy For Good antho. Read this story set against the backdrop of Durga Puja, you'll never look at a pandal the same way again, or 'pandal food'.
https://www.readersdigest.in/culturescape/story-pandal-food-124423 #IndianSF
https://www.readersdigest.in/culturescape/story-pandal-food-124423 #IndianSF
'Things that Happened While We Waited for Our Magical Grandmother to Die – No. 39'. What a title. This Kuzhali Manickavel story concerns itself with three children in a sprawling house with a mind of its own
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/things-that-happened-while-we-waited-for-our-magical-grandmother-to-die-no-39/ #IndianSF
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/things-that-happened-while-we-waited-for-our-magical-grandmother-to-die-no-39/ #IndianSF
A hapless stray dog is hooked up with neural implants and used in a scientific experiment to train an artificial neural network in Shankar Gopalakrishnan’s 'The Right Way to be Sad'
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-right-way-to-be-sad/ #IndianSF
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-right-way-to-be-sad/ #IndianSF
Not recent, but a must-read. By the legend Jayant Narlikar, The Adventure is perhaps one of the very few alternate history stories from India (avlbl in English) & also one that imagines an India that's never been colonised. https://mithilareview.com/narlikar_04_16/ #IndianSF
In @shal_srinivasan's urban infrastructure story Road: A Fairytale, the protagonist is a most unusual one. Also, proper Bangalore feels (obvs)
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/road-a-fairytale/ #IndianSF
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/road-a-fairytale/ #IndianSF
Excerpts from two short stories from Magical Women, the fabulous all-women feminist SF anthology ed by @suku06.
The Rakshasi’s Rose Garden: https://theselkie.co.uk/the-rakshasis-rose-garden/
The Girl Who Haunted Death by @deepblueruin https://scroll.in/article/958473/read-at-home-in-this-fantasy-story-death-visits-a-young-woman-who-has-accosted-him-in-the-past #IndianSF
The Rakshasi’s Rose Garden: https://theselkie.co.uk/the-rakshasis-rose-garden/
The Girl Who Haunted Death by @deepblueruin https://scroll.in/article/958473/read-at-home-in-this-fantasy-story-death-visits-a-young-woman-who-has-accosted-him-in-the-past #IndianSF
Not recent at all, but timeless. Amongst the first feminist SF stories anywhere in the world, this 1905 classic (yes, 115 years ago), Sultana's Dream imagines a happy country Ladyland ruled by women (hence happy), with all the men shut indoors
https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream.html #IndianSF
https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream.html #IndianSF
a story that's eerily relevant to current times. also, 'don’t go with strange beautiful women you meet alone on the road is a maxim of all B-grade horror. A haunting tale this, Tesu by @gaachburi here: https://www.himalmag.com/tesu-short-story-competition-2019/ #IndianSF
Future Fiction from FirstPost, a rare instance when a news site published SF. Aliens, life after death, tech-dystopias & more. Stories by @suhitkelkar, @abhaiyengar & Analog/Virtual author @lavanya_ln ( https://www.firstpost.com/long-reads/analogvirtual-4282381.html) et al. Full series here: https://www.firstpost.com/tag/futurefiction
ok. there's a lot of love i see coming in for Indian SF/F. truly gladdens the heart. if you're interested in digging deeper, do follow this other thread that collects some articles from @factordaily's #NWWonFD sf column about sf from/about India https://twitter.com/theBekku/status/1115572683427606530?s=20 #IndianSF
