Soham Guha
Fifteen sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories rooted in the subcontinent explore caste, climate crisis, inequality, dissent, and survival in bold, haunting worlds
Watch what Life In A Bookshelf has to say about the book: Click here These fifteen stories, ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and horror, encompass elements, cultural context, history, and people of the subcontinent. While “Ascension” asks about the role of casteism in a tidally locked secondary world, “The Elevator Era” discusses the state of stark economic disparity in a devastated world through the eyes of two terracotta artists. “Mare Tranqualatalis” explores the role of indigenous honey collectors of Sundarbans in a bee-less world where rising sea levels have given rise to sentient threats–both men and abominable. “Children Between Lines” asks what happens to freedom and dissent in a totalitarian world. “The Old Age Home at the End of the Universe” explores what happens to old parents when the world dies. Together, these stories promise action, adventure, humor, love and hate, disparity and salvation, redemption and revenge, and everything in between.
