Mary Shelley’s popular novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818) deals with a...
Locating Postcolonial Hero In Bangla Speculative Fiction Part II— Debraj Moulick
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Indian science fiction
Locating Postcolonial Hero In Bangla Speculative Fiction (Part I)— Debraj Moulick
A deep dive into the world of speculative fiction in Bangla might reveal various underlying...
Book Review of Kalicalypse— Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
In some strange way, the apocalypse has always been the quintessential object of desire. All the...
A tapestry of brilliance, imagination and more… The Gollancz Book of Science Fiction (volume 2) – Mahua Sen Mukhopadhyay
Science fiction stories nowadays have broken the boundaries or what we call stereotypes. The Gollancz Book of Science Fiction (Volume 2) reconfirms that.
. (Full Stop) – Soham Guha
Soham Guha writes in his mother tongue, Bengali, and English as well. His works were published in Kalpabiswa.com, Scroll.in, Matti Braun’s Monologue, and Mohs 5.5: Megastructure Anthology and Mithila Review. This story is translated from the Bengali by Ranjita Chattopadhyaya.
Indian Science Fiction – A Panel Discussion
The Antonym brought together a wonderful panel of India Science Fiction writers and critics to discuss the uniqueness of Indian Science Fiction. We had Subodh Jawadekar, the renowned Science and Science Fiction writer in Marathi: Dipen Bhattacharya, who writes in Bengali., featuring the social dynamics of imagined future societies interwoven with scientific principle and T.G. Shenoy, a Science Fiction columnist and critic, the writer of India’s longest-running weekly SF column in India,
In Hamlet’s Question – Ritwick Bhattacharjee
Ritwick Bhattacharjee is the author of Humanity’s Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy. He has been awarded with the Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Award.
Reimagined Past, Expanded Present and Memories of the Future – Editor’s Note on The Antonym issue featuring science fiction
The Antonym takes a closer look at contemporary science fiction, slipstream fiction, speculative poetry and bring to its readers some diverse yet engrossing output of this genre.
Indian Science Fiction Examined with Utmost Care – Sreya Sarkar
This work starts the important journey of examining Indian SF from multiple angles and will inspire many chroniclers and SF enthusiasts to take this research further.