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cernuvid's review
5.0
A well-curated collection that represents the diversity, power and elegance of voices in sci-fi from across South Asia. This anthology is a gateway to an entire genre retold in important and underrepresented voices.
Best stories:
-And Now His Lordship is Laughing (Shiv Ramdas)
-The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls (Senaa Ahmad)
-The Song of Ice (Soham Guha, transl. Arunava Sinha)
-Goodbye is the Shape of a Palm Pressed to the Sky (Lavanya Lakshminarayan)
-Almost Human (Kehkashan Khalid)
-A Different Sea (Vandana Singh)
-The List (Gautam Bhatia)
-Champollion’s Foot (Haris A. Durrani)
-The Arrival of the New World (Premee Mohamed)
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The Traveller (Tashan Mehta) -
“wonder shared is wonder multiplied”
The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls (Senaa Ahmad) -
“Those were the old days. Now it is not the days that are old, but ourselves.”
The Ministry of Relevance (Arjun Raj Gaind) -
“the inevitable entropy of dreams”
The Song of Ice (Soham Guha) -
“The world was not ours to inherit - it was a loan from our children, with interest due.”
Champollion’s Foot (Haris A. Durrani) -
“consciousness without conscience is not consciousness at all.”
Shambhala (Salik Shah) -
“The sun and the moon and all the stars are out there. But they don't need us. They are simply there, being, existing.”
Best stories:
-And Now His Lordship is Laughing (Shiv Ramdas)
-The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls (Senaa Ahmad)
-The Song of Ice (Soham Guha, transl. Arunava Sinha)
-Goodbye is the Shape of a Palm Pressed to the Sky (Lavanya Lakshminarayan)
-Almost Human (Kehkashan Khalid)
-A Different Sea (Vandana Singh)
-The List (Gautam Bhatia)
-Champollion’s Foot (Haris A. Durrani)
-The Arrival of the New World (Premee Mohamed)
———
The Traveller (Tashan Mehta) -
“wonder shared is wonder multiplied”
The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls (Senaa Ahmad) -
“Those were the old days. Now it is not the days that are old, but ourselves.”
The Ministry of Relevance (Arjun Raj Gaind) -
“the inevitable entropy of dreams”
The Song of Ice (Soham Guha) -
“The world was not ours to inherit - it was a loan from our children, with interest due.”
Champollion’s Foot (Haris A. Durrani) -
“consciousness without conscience is not consciousness at all.”
Shambhala (Salik Shah) -
“The sun and the moon and all the stars are out there. But they don't need us. They are simply there, being, existing.”
wordylocks's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
5.0
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