What?? You don& #39;t want to read SF/F by dead white problematic men? Cool. You& #39;d rather read stories by one of our own?? Cool-er! Because i& #39;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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More horror? weird fiction? Then read @flightofsand& #39;s title story from his newest collection, Come Tomorrow & Other Tales of Bangalore Terror. A fabulous ghost story that includes a ghost& #39;s story. The ghost btw is Blr& #39;s famous naaLe ba bhoota... https://annatambour.net/ComeTomorrow-JayaprakashSathyamurthy.htm">https://annatambour.net/ComeTomor... #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& #39;ll never look at a pandal the same way again, or & #39;pandal food& #39;.
https://www.readersdigest.in/culturescape/story-pandal-food-124423">https://www.readersdigest.in/culturesc... #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& #39;s never been colonised. https://mithilareview.com/narlikar_04_16/ ">https://mithilareview.com/narlikar_... #IndianSF
In @shal_srinivasan& #39;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/">https://strangehorizons.com/fiction/r... #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& #39;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">https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sul... #IndianSF
a story that& #39;s eerily relevant to current times. also, & #39;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/">https://www.himalmag.com/tesu-shor... #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)">https://www.firstpost.com/long-read... et al. Full series here: https://www.firstpost.com/tag/futurefiction">https://www.firstpost.com/tag/futur...
ok. there& #39;s a lot of love i see coming in for Indian SF/F. truly gladdens the heart. if you& #39;re interested in digging deeper, do follow this other thread that collects some articles from @factordaily& #39;s #NWWonFD sf column about sf from/about India https://twitter.com/theBekku/status/1115572683427606530?s=20">https://twitter.com/theBekku/... #IndianSF
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