THE BEST ASIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION 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, 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)
ISBN: 978-93-86906-52-6
Published by Kitaab (Singapore)
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Review in SOUTHEAST ASIAN REVIEW OF ENGLISH (DECEMBER 2019) , Malaysia ((ISSN: 0127-046X)) by Agnes S. K. Yeow
The Best Asian Speculative Fiction (edited by Rajat Chaudhuri) is referred (pp.322-332) in the book Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S. by Robert M. Geraci, Oxford University Press (2022)
Listed in South Asian Studies Summer Reading List of University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) prepared by Prof. Mou Banerjee
One of the stories in the book (Shweta Taneja's, The Daughter that Bleeds) nominated for France's top speculative fiction award -Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.
One of the stories in the book (Shweta Taneja's, The Daughter that Bleeds) nominated for France's top speculative fiction award -Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.
Cited in the book `Star Warriors of the Modern Raj' (University of Wales Press) by Sami Ahmad Khan.
Introduction to the book The Best Asian Speculative Fiction published in Scroll.
Review in The Telegraph
Review in Kitaab magazine
Listed with a notice in Pune Mirror (Times of India)
Press release at Kitaab
Listing in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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