Steampunk: How this subgenre of science fiction challenges the beliefs of civilisational progress

Steampunk is a response to growing estrangement with the interpretation of modernity and the ruthless rupture from the past as the precondition for progress.

Sumit Bardhan

· Apr 16, 2022 · 05:30 pm

What the Hugo and Nebula award-winners of 2020 are telling us about science-fiction and ourselves

What writers and readers consider the best sci-fi of the year.

Sumit Bardhan

· Aug 28, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Is there such a thing as Indian Science Fiction? This book tries to identify some common elements

Although it covers works in only four languages, Suparno Banerjee’s ‘Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity’ is certainly a milestone.

Sumit Bardhan

· May 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm