Fantasy
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A new novel reimagines the ‘Mahabharata’ by putting familiar characters in a strange, mythical world
Gourav Mohanty
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Science fiction: An investigator is asked to solve a simple theft but it turns into a deeper mystery
Sumit Bardhan
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For young readers: With time running out, can Maya control her powers and protect her from herself?
Payal Dhar
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‘Cursed Bunny’: These anti-fairy tales of capitalism and patriarchy are shrouded in phantasmagoria
Santa Nibedita
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Book one of a new fantasy series: Will Raibhu be able to fulfil his father’s dying wish?
Madhulika Liddle Kannan Iyer
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Starseeds: The people who think they are aliens who have come to Earth to save humanity
Ken Drinkwater, The Conversation Andrew Denovan, The Conversation Neil Dagnall, The Conversation
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A genderless society, a utopian anarchy, a copper-skinned hero: Ursula K Le Guin’s subversive worlds
Thalluri Divya Aslesha
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Meet writer Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, winner of the inaugural Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Sohini Basak
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A new sci-fi fantasy book follows a 12-year-old girl’s quest to fulfil a 2,000-year-old prophecy
Payal Dhar
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Religion and mythology meet fantasy fiction in this debut novel featuring humans and gods
Saksham Garg
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Booker Prize shortlisted ‘Treacle Walker’ is a fantasy in form but a literary novel every other way
Shubhangi Tiwari
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‘The Horizon’: The science fiction sequel to ‘The Wall’ answers questions of revolution and freedom
Gautam Bhatia
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‘Piranesi’: Susanna Clarke’s long-awaited second novel is worth the long wait. And it includes magic
Shreya Ila Anasuya
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Identity, class-struggle and diversity meet romance in Tanaz Bhathena’s lush fantasy novel
Tanaz Bhathena
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Read at home: In this fantasy story, ‘Death’ visits a young woman who has accosted him in the past
Nikita Deshpande
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NYT No 1 bestseller Sarah J Maas is back with a new fantasy series: ‘House of Earth and Blood’
Sarah J Maas
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A new heroine emerges on Earth after a catastrophic comet strike as two empires prepare to go to war
Sophia Khan
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‘The Witcher’ books, coming to Netflix, tell their stories in ways seldom seen in fantasy fiction
Kaustav Sood
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South Asian science-fiction is finally centrestage, bringing us closer to our own reality
Nudrat Kamal, Dawn.com
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The firepower of feminist fantasies is on full view in this anthology featuring ‘magical women’
Jai Arjun Singh