speculative fiction
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‘Bandigoat’: This anthology of strange fiction bounces between the weird and the folkloric
Ananya Dasguta
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Fiction pick: On July 15, 2042, Earth runs out of air, killing every living being
Iffat Nawaz
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‘What We Can Know’: Ian McEwan’s new novel explores resentment and vengeance in a fractured world
Kevin John Brophy, The Conversation
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‘Between Worlds’: An entertaining, moving speculative fiction anthology buoyed by distinct voices
Rhea Gangavkar
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‘The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar’: Indra Das’s novel celebrates found family and friendship
Rahul Vishnoi
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Speculative short fiction: Janaki, a middle aged woman, is granted an unexpected power
Suchitra Sukumar
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‘Vanishing World’: Sayaka Murata’s new novel warns readers of a world bereft of love and belonging
Rahul Singh
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‘Mouth’: A collection of speculative short fiction that breaks the binary of human and the other
Saloni Sharma
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‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’ is every bit is as radical as you think
Devarsi Ghosh
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‘Ecoceanic’: Speculative fiction anthology from the global South reveals climate change injustices
Suparno Banerjee
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‘Biopeculiar’: Speculative short stories about nature tell what is at stake to those who will listen
Shreyasi Sharma
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Reading list: Science fiction writer Gautam Bhatia recommends 15 books to sample the genre
Gautam Bhatia
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Fiction: A former activist and a genetic engineer must reveal a radical truth before it’s too late
Mansoor Khan
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A new novel connects India’s 19th and 20th centuries to its distant past and its apocalyptic future
Siddhartha Deb
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In Gautam Bhatia’s novel, a woman tries to cross a wall that has enclosed her city for 2000 years
Gautam Bhatia
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‘The analog world is terrible...They’re forced to talk to each other in person every single day’
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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Ambiguity Machines
Scroll Staff
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These speculative short stories imagine what seems impossible in an age of greed and climate change
Indra Das
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A woman with special abilities looks into the past of a submerged Kolkata in this short story
Vandana Singh
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It’s Pride Month, and here are five queer South Asian speculative stories to raise a toast
Mimi Mondal