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The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories
| Author: | Vandana Singh |
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Penguin Books India, 2008 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Well known and well regarded in the world of science fiction and fantasy writing, Vandana Singh brings her unique imagination to a wider audience in this collection of stories, newly reissued by Zubaan Books. In the title story, a woman tells her husband of her curious discovery: that she is inhabited by small alien creatures. In another, a young girl making her way to college through the streets of Delhi comes across a mysterious tetrahedron. Is it a spaceship? Or a secret weapon?
The first Indian female speculative fiction writer, Singh has said that her genre is a chance to find ourselves part of a larger whole; to step out of the claustrophobia of the exclusively human and discover joy, terror, wonder, and meaning in the greater universe. A revolutionary voice in fantasy writing, Singh brings her passion for discovery to these stories, and the result is like nothing of this world.
Table of Contents:
- Hunger - (2007) - short story
- Delhi - (2004) - short story
- The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet - (2003) - short story
- Infinities - novelette
- Thirst - (2004) - short story
- Conservation Laws - short story
- Three Tales from Sky River: Myths for a Starfaring Age - (2004) - short story
- The Tetrahedron - (2005) - short story
- The Wife - (2003) - short story
- The Room on the Roof - (2002) - novelette
- A Speculative Manifesto - essay
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