by Salik Shah | Nov 2, 2016 | Articles
Photograph: Tor Books If you have just finished binge-reading Cixin Liu’s stellar Three-Body trilogy, you are in for a treat. I have collected snippets from some of Liu’s best interviews and essays, book reviews and fan tributes here for those who are curious about...
by Isha Karki | Aug 8, 2016 | Articles
The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj | Goodreads Mary Anne Mohanraj’s sci-fi novella The Stars Change (2013) is set on planet Kriti, historically colonized by a group of wealthy Indians from Old Earth, now inhabited by a mixed population of humans, humods...
by Niyati Bhat | Aug 8, 2016 | Articles
A still from A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night In Asian Cinema, the genre of horror acquires more political and volatile language than any other. There are larger themes such as identity crisis, violence against women, struggles with sexual orientation and political...
by Charles Tan | Aug 8, 2016 | Articles, Personal Essays
It is probably easier to talk about Filipino-Chinese (or Chinese-Filipino?) Speculative Fiction literature than the context surrounding it. While not exactly a translation project, what best encapsulates the situation are the words of Antony Shugaar on the craft of...
by Salik Shah | Jul 6, 2016 | Articles
Recommendations from Niall Harrison, Nisi Shawl, Jaymee Goh, Indra Das, Anil Menon & Others What are some of the most successful examples of Asian SF—speculative fiction by an Asian author or those with a meaningful connection with Asia? Based on...
by Anil Menon | Jun 8, 2016 | Articles
It is not clear when we humans began to exchange long bursts of sound for entertainment, but there is a good chance the very first such exchange, the first story, was a love story. And it probably went something like this: Ug the caveman falls in love, there are...