“Sharing Air”

Title“Sharing Air”
Year for Search1984
AuthorsPadmanabhan, Manjula(b. 1953)
Secondary TitleKleptomania. Ten Stories
Pagination83-90
Date Published[1984?]/2004
PublisherPenguin Books India
Place PublishedNew Delhi, India
KeywordsFemale author, Indian author
Annotation

Dystopia in the future in which everyone has to breathe air from tanks, and all the trees are gone. 

Additional Publishers

Originally published in the Sunday Express (New Delhi). Rpt. in The Pioneer (New Delhi) (February 28, 1997); and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 925-27 with an editors’ note on 924 giving the date of publication as 1984 but without any indication of where. 

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Indian female author (b. 1953) living in the United States.

Full Text

[1984?] Padmanabhan, Manjula (b. 1953). “Sharing Air.” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 83-90. Originally published in the Sunday Express (New Delhi). Rpt. in The Pioneer (New Delhi) (February 28, 1997); and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 925-27 with an editors’ note on 924 giving the date of publication as 1984 but without any indication of where. PU

Dystopia in the future in which everyone has to breathe air from tanks, and all the trees are gone. Indian female author living in the United States.