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Anthology series: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction

Editor:  Tarun K. Saint

Language:  English

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Bibliographic comments:  Reissued in the UK by Gollancz in June 2021 as New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South

Asian Science Fiction.

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The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction

Tarun K. Saint, ed.

2019

<  February 2019, 1st edition

Hachette India

ISBN 978-93-88322-05-8

Hardcover, 424 pages

₹599.00

Notes:

  •  'Foreword: Spice-ship to Infinity' by Manjula Padmanabhan, 'Introduction: SF Matters: South Asian Futures to Come'

     by Tarun K. Saint.

  •  'Planet of Terror', 'The Dream' and 'Why the War Ended' translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha.

  •  'Inspector Matadeen on the Moon' translated from the Hindi by C. M. Naim.

  •  'Stealing the Sea' translated from the Urdu by Syed Saeed Naqvi.

  •  'The Twenty-Second Century' translated from the Hindi by Maya Joshi (excerpts from Baisvin Sadi).

  •  Interior art by Manjula Padmanabhan.

  •  Re-released in the UK in June 2021 as New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction.

Fiction: Adrish Bardhan, Planet of Terror  //  Harishankar Parsai, Inspector Matadeen on the Moon  //  Asif Aslam

Farrukhi, Stealing the Sea  //  Mimi Mondal, The Sea Sings at Night  //  Rahul Sankrityayan, The Twenty-Second

Century  //  Anil Menon, Shit Flower  //  Shovon Chakraborty, The Man Who Turned Into Ghandi  //  Tarun K. Saint,

A Visit to Partition World  //  Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Dreaming of the Cool Green River  //  Clark Prasad,

Mirror-Rorrim  //  Manjula Padmanabhan, Flexi-Time  //  Payal Dhar, The Other Side  //  Sami Ahmad Khan, 15004  

//  Premendra Mitra, Why the War Ended  //  Chandrashekhar Sastry, The Beneficient Brahma  //  Giti Chandra, The

Goddess Project  //  Mohammad Salman, The Last Tiger  //  Rimi B. Chatterjee, A Night with the Joking Clown  //  

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, The Dream  //  Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Anandna  //  Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, We Were Never

Here  //  Keki N. Daruwalla, The Narrative of Naushirwan Shavaksha Sheikh Chilli  //  S. B. Divya, Looking Up  //  

Vandana Singh, Reunion

Poetry: Somendra Singh Kharola, Chernobyl  //  Kaiser Haq, Seventy Years After Seventy Years After Partition  //  

Sumita Sharma, Moksha  //  Arjun Rajendran, Were It Not For

The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2

Tarun K. Saint, ed.

2021

<  September 2021, 1st edition

Hachette India

ISBN 978-93-91028-62-6

Hardcover, 488 pages

₹699

Notes:

  •  Graphic preface and afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, Introduction 'South Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy:

     Carving New Spaces in Time' by Tarun K. Saint.

Fiction: Shiv Ramdas, And Now His Lordship Is Laughing  //  Medha Singh, Jupiter, Dark Sister  //  Tashan Mehta,

The Traveller  //  Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, The Zoo  //  Vajra Chandrasekera, The Maker of Memorials  //  Senaa

Ahmad, The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls  //  Manjula Padmanabhan, The Pain Merchant  //  Arjun Raj Gaind, The Ministry

of Relevance  //  Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Dimensions of Life Under Fascism  //  Soham Guha, The Song of Ice  //  

Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Goodbye Is the Shape of a Palm Pressed to the Sky  //  Kehkashan Khalid, Almost

Human  //  Bina Shah, Looney Ka Tabadla  //  Anil Menon, Paley's Watch  //  Aparna Ramachandran, Elsewhere  //

Jayant V. Narlikar, Gift of the Angels  //  Vandana Singh, A Different Sea  //  Gautam Bhatia, The List  //  Kaiser Haq,

2020-NKARV  //  Kalsang Yangzom, The Crossing  //  Gita Chandra, A Species of Least Concern  //  Haris A. Durrani,

Champollion's Foot  //  Usman T. Malik, Resurrection Points  //  Salik Shah, Shambala  //  Yudhanjaya Wijeratne,

Confessor  //  Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Scavenger  //  Sami Ahmad Khan, Biryani Bagh  //  Shovon Choudhury,

Malini  //  Sukanya Datta, The Midas Touch  //  Premee Mohamed, The Arrival of the New World  //  Navin

Weeraratne, The Diamond Library  //  Saad Z. Hossain, Bring Your Own Spoon

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