@booklet {11831, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Architecture of Loss/L{\textquoteright}architettura della perdita{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {84-103/250-270}, publisher = {Future Fiction}, address = {Rome}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which climate change means that humanity has been forced to abandon the land and live in the oceans.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-8832077513}, author = {Salik Shah}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint and Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay and Francesco Verso} } @booklet {11827, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {58-71/222-236}, publisher = {Future Fiction}, address = {Rome}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which climate change had create a world of migrants that lived outside the control of governments who have the ability to use CRISPR and nanotechnology to create whatever living forms they want. They story contains some trenchant comments on the present that explain that future: \“You can\’t have democracy when you have social media. With social media everyone gets to have their own truths. They form closed-off worlds of self-reinforcing narratives and lies. Then, we expect them to go off, and make decisions?\” (62). And \“If you can\’t trust people to vote, you definitely can\’t trust them to create\” (64).\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Sri Lankan author}, isbn = {978-8832077513}, author = {Navin Weeraratne}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint and Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay and Francesco Verso} } @booklet {11650, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Biryani Bagh{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {350-367}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

The story moves through different points in time, past present, and future, exploring ethnic/gender/racial relations in India from different points of view.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-93-91028-62-6}, author = {Sami Ahmad Khan}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} } @booklet {11640, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Ministry of Relevance{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {65-85}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

In an overpopulated future Mumbai, \“our glorious leader\” has established The Ministry of Relevance\” to determine which individuals are fit to life in the city and who should be expelled. The criteria are \“racial antecedence, consumption habits, moral turpitude, celebrity quotient, social influence, and ideological fidelity\” (70). In a city where books are no longer read, an author is required to prove his relevance and is interrogated by a series of AIs. I

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-93-91028-62-6}, author = {Arjun Raj Gaind}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} } @booklet {11157, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Narrative of Nausirwan Shavaksha Sheikh Chilli{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {306-25}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

Satire on Indian politics and corruption that begins with the disappearance of all but one Parsi, who then decides to join the exodus to the moon to escape his gambling debts and India\’s pollution.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-93-88322-05-8}, author = {Keki N. Daruwalla (b. 1937)}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} }