Category Archives: Genre

Pioneer of Bengali science fiction Adrish Bardhan no more

Pioneer of Bengali science fiction Adrish Bardhan no more Kolkata: Adrish Bardhan, science fiction writer, translator and editor died at the age of 87 at the Nilratana Sarkar Medical College and Hospital on Monday night.He was suffering from age-related… http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/pioneer-of-bengali-science-fiction-adrish-bardhan-no-more-354130

Science Fiction’s Preoccupation With Privacy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science Fiction’s Preoccupation With Privacy. Two ambitious new novels build techno-futures in which surveillance offers disturbing new threats. Argentine and Zambian writers. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/04/surveillance-science-fiction-colonializing-force/587863/

Skyfire

Skyfire May 2012. India is hit by a series of freak weather disturbances and startling epidemics that threaten to bring the country to its knees. At the same time, children are disappearing from the slums in the capital and nobody seems to care. Stumbling upon these strange and seemingly unrelated incide… Indian SF https://www.amazon.in/Skyfire-Aroon-Raman/dp/9382616616

Stellar sci-fi: India’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ killer cars and the Teixcalaanli empire

Stellar sci-fi: India’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ killer cars and the Teixcalaanli empire New sci-fi: John Marrs’ “The Passengers,” Ashok Banker’s “Upon a Burning Throne,” Arkady Martine’s “A Memory Called Empire,” Mark Lawrence’s “One Word Kill.” Marrs, _The Passengers_ is like a “choose your own adventure” or Black Mirror’s “Bandersnatch”– you the reader get to choose who dies in self-driving car accidents.  Yikes. https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-sci-fi-new-releases-20190508-story.html

Analysis | Jeff Bezos’s new plans for space have stirred up old fights in science fiction

Analysis | Jeff Bezos’s new plans for space have stirred up old fights in science fiction Is planet Earth all that we have, or do we need to go to the stars? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/10/jeff-bezoss-new-plans-space-have-stirred-up-old-fights-science-fiction/?utm_term=%5B%27.12ea6974b4b3%27%5D

Meet ‘Neon Future’, a Science Fiction Comic that Trades Cyber-Paranoia for Optimism

Meet ‘Neon Future’, a Science Fiction Comic that Trades Cyber-Paranoia for Optimism Created by famous DJ Steve Aoki, the new sci-fi comic book narrates a story of human-machine coexistence, instead of cyber-apocalypse. Very curious to see this.  Has anyone read it yet?  Came out about 2 months ago. https://www.news18.com/news/tech/meet-neon-future-a-science-fiction-comic-that-trades-cyber-paranoia-for-optimism-2128799.html