by Sohail Inayatullah | Sep 10, 2018 | Articles
Is all science fiction western? Is there non-western science fiction? If so, what is its nature? Does it follow the form and content of western science fiction, or is it rendered different by its own local civilizational historical processes and considerations? Has...
by Sami Ahmad Khan | Sep 10, 2018 | Articles
Abstract: This article studies three distinct Science Fictional reinterpretations of (goddess) Sita – wife of Lord Rama – in Breaking the Bow, an anthology of (Speculative Fiction) stories inspired by the classical Indian epic Ramayana. These varied manifestations of...
by Gurbir Singh | Sep 10, 2018 | Articles, Excerpts
“Fifty years in the making, India’s Space Programme is fulfilling the vision of its founders and delivering services from space that touch the lives of 1.3 billion people every day. In addition to operating a collection of satellites for weather, Earth...
by Urna Mukherjee | Apr 11, 2017 | Articles
For a show that has been television’s longest running Science Fiction series centred on an alien hero and his space and time-travelling telephone box, it’s hard to miss out on the fact that at least half of the show’s action happens on Earth, and very often in...
by Dilman Dila | Apr 11, 2017 | Articles, Film
A scene from Dilman Dila’s Her Broken Shadow. Watch the trailer here on Youtube. I made Her Broken Shadow on a whim. I had just returned to Uganda after about three months of travel. I had been to South Africa for a literary festival, France for a scifi...
by Rachel Cordasco | Apr 8, 2017 | Articles
After reading a lot of speculative fiction in English translation over the past couple of years, I finally decided to make a subject index on my site (sfintranslation.com). Not surprisingly, I had found myself coming across the same preoccupations, obsessions, and...
