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 >
Listed in `The Definitive Climate Fiction Reading List’'Grist (US)
`Joyously ambitious solarpunk ... excels when entwining relational nuance with keenly handled futurist ideas ... number of gems for fans of climate fiction'Publishers Weekly
`Excellent translation ... Hard to find flavour of a culture in ferment'Scroll
`What comes across in the translations, from the very beginning, are the poems' distinctive Bengali origin'Daily Star (Bangladesh)
`Social-existential cares are interwoven with allusions to local or national issues ... will subtly shift our perception as to the currents of Bengali underground poetry'New Indian Express
An exceptional piece by Debal Deb, one of the heroes of the struggle to preserve biodiversity in the face of opposition from industrial agricultural and its client institutions. https://t.co/vVqNwPgItp
Teaching short stories this semester, I already have some great flash and I'll be using @rajatchaudhuri's Multispecies Cities anthology but any other recommendations of stories under 2k words by writers of colour, those with regional voices or working class subjects? Pls RT
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