Between
singing asteroid stations with a secret, and chilling visions of dystopia, between
mad sorcerers with an agenda and time-travelling phantoms perplexed by the
rules of afterlife, this volume of stories offers a unique sampling of flavours
from the infinite breadth of the Asian imagination. If science fiction, horror,
and fantasy are the genres you swear by, but miss Asian voices and settings, then
this anthology is your oyster. Call these stories speculative, sff, or by any
other name, they are really tales well told, and they always take off at a
tangent from the big, blustering ‘real’. Here the imaginative spirit is aflame, casting
a rich lovely light. Tales from sixteen countries of Asia plus the diasporas. Freshly
minted, told by seasoned writers and new talent—a smörgåsbord of Asia's finest
speculative imagination. The Best Asian Speculative Fiction includes stories by Shweta Taneja, Bae Suah, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Xu Xi, Eliza Victoria, Eldar Sattarov, Tunku Halim, Kiran Manral, Soramimi Hanarejima, Lopa Ghosh, Mithran Somasundrum, Lijia Zhang, Chris Mooney-Singh, Tan Kaiyi, Timothy Yam, Samim Ahmed, Rochellle Potkar, Joseph Nacino, Carlo Flordeliza among others. (Selected, edited and with an Introduction by Rajat Chaudhuri) Read more >
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