Science fiction and pandemics have an unusual link: the focus on a shared humanity

Mayurika Chakravorty, The Conversation

· Jul 21, 2020 · 06:30 pm

‘Kali_Na’: Indrapramit Das’s sci-fi short story has won the Shirley Jackson award for short fiction

Indrapramit Das

· Jul 15, 2020 · 08:30 am

How science fiction can offer solace and build resilience in these strange times

Esther Jones, The Conversation

· May 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

World Book Day reading: The end of a strange love affair in Mumbai

Mimi Mondal

· Apr 23, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Read at home: After the apocalypse, a woman meets a man. Sparks might fly

SB Divya

· Apr 02, 2020 · 03:30 pm

‘The analog world is terrible...They’re forced to talk to each other in person every single day’

Lavanya Lakshminarayan

· Mar 10, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Is science fiction an instrument of escapism or a mirror to our realities?

Gavin Miller, The Conversation

· Feb 25, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Our interest in imagining future worlds is dying, says sci-fi author William Gibson

Andre Spicer, The Conversation

· Jan 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Is Africa afraid of Chinese expansion? Dystopian science-fiction offers some clues

Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation

· Sep 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

South Asian science-fiction is finally centrestage, bringing us closer to our own reality

Nudrat Kamal, Dawn.com

· Jul 20, 2019 · 08:30 am

Adrish Bardhan (1932-2019) single-handedly put science-fiction in the Bengali reader’s imagination

Dip Ghosh Soham Guha

· Jun 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm

This timely collection of South Asian science fiction is sorely needed – but does it go far enough?

Veena Muthuraman

· Mar 31, 2019 · 08:30 am

Don’t listen to the critics – science fiction explores what it means to be human in the truest way

Gene Tracy

· Mar 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

The Indian tendency to stretch time becomes a boon when aliens arrive in this science fiction story

Manjula Padmanabhan

· Mar 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

Why is there so little time travel in Indian fiction writing in English?

Tashan Mehta

· Mar 02, 2019 · 08:30 am

A science fiction conference in Kolkata showed that the genre has remained alive and well in Bengal

Sandip Roy

· Feb 16, 2019 · 12:30 pm

This novel speculates provocatively on the outcome of creating ‘humans’ with artificial intelligence

Apala Bhowmick

· Jan 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How horribly wrong can experiments in science go? This novel of ideas explores the possibilities

Priyadarshi Basu

· Jan 05, 2019 · 07:30 am

This novel marks the beginning of a new fantasy world in India’s speculative literatures

Vijayta Lalwani

· Dec 22, 2018 · 08:30 am

Five lessons an Indian author learned at Europe’s biggest science fiction and fantasy convention

Shweta Taneja

· Oct 28, 2018 · 12:30 pm