@booklet {12020, title = {"Company Man"}, howpublished = {Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {155-179}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set n the future in which corporations have been given full civil rights that often supersede individual rights.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780262546461}, author = {Shiv Ramdas and Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {12011, title = {"Less Than"}, howpublished = {Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {61-79}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story takes place in Free India in which everyone is free and equal and has replace the authoritarian Regime in which only some people were acceptable. It turns out, though, that new internet is being used to manipulate individuals to produce what are perceived to be a eugenically superior next generation.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {9780262546461}, author = {Lavanya Lakshminarayan}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {11767, title = {Victory City. A Novel}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {337 pp.}, publisher = {Random House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An epic novel that begins in an alternative fourteenth century India and follows the rise and fall of numerous empires through the story of Bisnaga or Victory City, a city brought into existence by a young woman who has been given powers by a goddess and the task of giving women equality in a patriarchal world.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780593597217}, author = {[Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)} } @booklet {11830, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Anamnesis/Anamnesi{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {72-83/237-249}, publisher = {Future Fiction}, address = {Rome}, abstract = {

A complex story set in a future dominated by AI and pills that controls dreams.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {978-8832077513}, author = {Rupsa Dey}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint and Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay and Francesco Verso} } @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 {11641, title = {{\textquotedblleft}To Revolt is to be Undone{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {GigaNotoSaurus}, year = {2022}, month = {June 1, 2022}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future authoritarian dystopia that is exploiting the islands being flooded due to climate change to benefit the already wealthy.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author, US author}, url = {https://giganotosaurus.org/2022/06/01/to-revolt-is-to-be-undone/}, author = {Sid Jain} } @booklet {11354, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Arfabad{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {216-34}, publisher = {World Weaver Press}, address = {Albuquerque, NM}, abstract = {

Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction\  Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Indian author, Northern Ireland author}, isbn = {978-1-734054521}, author = {Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969)}, editor = {Christoph Rupprecht and Deborah Cleland and Norie Tamura and Rajat Chaudhuri and Sarena Ulibarri} } @booklet {11399, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Arisudan{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Mithila Review}, volume = {no. 15}, year = {2021}, month = {March 2021}, abstract = {

A complex story told from the viewpoint of an Indian man as a grows up in a future India being destroyed by floods and earthquakes combined with an irresponsible corporation that is using its power to make everything worse. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Indian author, Northern Ireland author}, url = {https://mithilareview.com/chatterjee_03_21/}, author = {Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969)} } @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 {11646, title = {"The Crossing"}, 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 = {250-260}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

Refugee dystopia in which Tibetans try to avoid being inoculated with a drug that will eliminate the beliefs.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {978-93-91028-62-6}, author = {Kalsang Yangzom}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} } @booklet {11340, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Listen: A Memoir{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {11-21}, publisher = {World Weaver Press}, address = {Albuquerque, NM}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future that is recovering from the environmental devastation of the past told by a woman who can hear the birds, trees, and so forth speaking and can sometimes understand what is being said.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {978-1-734054521}, author = {Priya Sarukkai Chabria}, editor = {Christoph Rupprecht and Deborah Cleland and Norie Tamura and Rajat Chaudhuri and Sarena Ulibarri} } @booklet {11711, title = {Machinehood}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {405 pp.}, publisher = {Saga Press/Simon \& Schuster}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Set in a future in which humans, cyborgs, and AI-controlled robots compete for work in a gig economy while under constant surveillance. \“Privacy had gone the way of the dodo\” (11). The Machinehood is a movement for the freedom and autonomy of all forms of intelligence. Most chapters begin with an epigram taken from The Machinehood Manifesto, March 20, 2095. The first consists of items 30-32: \“30. All forms of intelligence have the right to exist without persecution or slavery. 31. No form of intelligence may own another. 32. If the local governance does not act in accordance with these rights, it is the right of an intelligence to act by any means necessary to secure them\” (1).

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, isbn = {9781982148065}, author = {[Divya Srinivasan] [Breed]} } @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 {11194, title = {Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. as The Ten-Percent Thief. New York: Solaris, 2023. 368 pp. One story, \“The Ten-Percent Thief\” has been rpt. in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 35-40.

}, month = {2020}, pages = {312 pp.}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a future where the nations of the world have fragmented into a few city-states. In what was India, Bangalore is now Apex City under the control of a corporation and the people are divided between the elite Virtual, who have to technology, and the outcast Analog, who do not.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {978-9389253085 }, author = {Lavanya Lakshminarayan} } @booklet {10956, title = {Chosen Spirits}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Tordotcom, 2022

}, month = {2020}, pages = {258 pp}, publisher = {Simon \& Schuster India}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

The novel is set in Delhi in the late 2020s, a city that is dangerous, badly polluted, short of water, and experiencing ethnic conflict, and constantly on the edge of revolution. The protagonist is a Reality Controller working for a celebrity.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-9386797810 }, author = {Samit Basu (b. 1979)} } @booklet {10933, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Stories and Second Chances{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Little Blue Marble}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 111-16, with a note on the author on 116.\ 

}, month = {September 11, 2020}, abstract = {

The story is set in Kolkata, India in the future when it is under water.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {978-1-988293-10-3}, url = {https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/09/11/stories-and-second-chances/}, author = {Tamoha Sengupta} } @booklet {11226, title = {The Wall: Being the First Book of the Chronicles of Sumer}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {385 pp.}, publisher = {HarperCollins India}, address = { Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India}, abstract = {

While the novel is explicitly fantasy, it is set in a walled city that has been cut off from the rest of the world for centuries that has a strictly hierarchical society and power structure reinforced by religion. One focus is on the desire to break the structure and find out what is on the other side of the wall. Presumably the first volume of a series.

}, keywords = {English author, Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {9789353578350}, author = {Gautam Bhatia (b. 1988)} } @booklet {11149, title = {The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {295 pp.}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a future Bombay/Mumbai (both names are used) that has by inundated by flood waters and replaced by an immense Bombadrome in which everyone lives in a controlled sanitized environment. Such Buildings are being built all over India and are spreading throughout the world. The story of the development of the Bombadrome is told by the last civil servant of the old India. Could use a glossary.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {9789388322133}, author = {Varun Thomas Mathew} } @booklet {10283, title = {{\textquotedblleft}By His Bootstraps{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {133-44}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire in which the U.S. government, under President Trump, initiates a program that changes the DNA in a person back to its human origins, thus ridding the country of all mixed-race immigrants. Something goes wrong and most people in the country become Native American Indians.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, author = {Ashok K[umar] Banker (b. 1964)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {11274, title = {{\textquotedblleft}A City of the People, For the People, By the People{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {1295-1336 [334-41]}, publisher = {Meatspace Press}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

In the story, an Indian city noted for its corruption is taken over by Whatsapp and \“is owned and managed by a commercial company for private property\” (1336 [341]). All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors\’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Indian author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-9955776-7-1}, author = {Ayona Datta}, editor = {Mark Graham and Rob Kitchin and Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw} } @booklet {11147, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Dreaming of the Green River{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {107-14}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which all \“Objectionable Art\” is removed and replaced with sanitized versions.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {978-93-88322-05-8}, author = {Priya Sarukkai Chabria}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} } @booklet {10714, title = {"Ghost Town"}, howpublished = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s 58. 2040 A.D.}, volume = {58}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {98-109}, publisher = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s Quarterly Concern}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, abstract = {

The story is set in Uttarakhand, India, and the oppressive heat of the lowlands gradually reached the mountains and destroyed the crops. Most people leave but one couple stays even after their son leaves and dies in a construction accident in Oman.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Kanishk Tharoor} } @booklet {10064, title = {Internment}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A young adult dystopia in which American Muslims are being forced into internment camps as Japanese Americans were in World War 2.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, author = {Samira Ahmed} } @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} } @booklet {11155, title = {{\textquotedblleft}A Night with the Joking Clown{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {255-79}, abstract = {

Corporations have divided up the world but are in conflict over their spheres of influence. Men completely dominate women, which they divide into \“slags\” and \“chicks.\”\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Indian author, Northern Ireland author}, isbn = {978-93-88322-05-8}, author = {Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969)}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} } @booklet {11151, title = {"The Other Side"}, howpublished = {The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {154-92}, publisher = {Hachtte India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

Refugee dystopia told from the point of view of escaping refugees.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {978-93-88322-05-8}, author = {Payal Dhar}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} } @booklet {11096, title = {"Reunion"}, howpublished = {The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 422-62, with an editor\’s note on 422.\ 

}, month = {2019}, pages = {341-65}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

The story takes place in a future India that has been battered by climate change creating storms strong enough to destroy cities. The protagonist is an Indian woman scientist who had developed the basis for settlements that integrated advanced technology with the natural world and made it possible for people to thrive in the new conditions.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, isbn = {9789388322058 978-1-5344-4959-6 }, author = {Vandana Singh (b. 1950)}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} } @booklet {10448, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Robots of Eden{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 193-211, with an editor\’s note on 193; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 306-22, with a note on the author together with the author\’s note on the story on 399.\ 

}, month = {2019}, pages = {207-26}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

Much of the story seems to be about the relationships within and Indian family. Then, it is gradually revealed that some of the people have been \“enhanced\” through an implant that counters negative emotions. From the viewpoint of the protagonist, the results are entirely positive, but what happens within the story suggests the opposite.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1781085783 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 }, author = {Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964)}, editor = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {11188, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Uncanny Magazine}, volume = {no. 20}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. in her Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations (Gurugram, India : Hachette India, 2019), 11-26. 9789388322430\ 

}, month = {January/February 2018}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where abortion is illegal in Arizona and abortion providers and their supporters are liable to be shot on sight by the authorities but legal in California, and there is an underground railroad between the states that has to cross a fortified border.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, url = {https://uncannymagazine.com/article/contingency-plans-apocalypse/ }, author = {[Divya Srinivasan] [Breed]} } @booklet {9548, title = {"Requiem"}, howpublished = {Ambiguity Machines \& Other Stories }, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 160-200, with an editor\’s note on 160.

}, month = {2018}, pages = {271-320}, publisher = {Small Beer Press}, address = {Easthampton, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where climate change has damaged the culture of Alaskan natives, but, in which, temporarily the world responded by stopping many of the activities that were driving the changes. At the time the story takes place, the sea ice has begun to return, but already corporations are again drilling for oil.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, isbn = {978-1618731432 9781597809887}, author = {Vandana Singh (b. 1950)}, editor = {Peter Crowther (b. 1949) and Nick Gevers} } @booklet {10127, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Widdam{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = {134.1/2}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. in A Year Without a Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 233-67; and in The Best Science Fiction \& Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 255-86.\ 

}, month = {January-February 2018}, pages = {6-38}, abstract = {

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia seen through the eyes of an Indian man, a Native American Indian woman, and a European woman as well as AI\’s who are trying to help.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, isbn = { 978-1941332382 9781781085769}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Vandana Singh (b. 1950)} } @booklet {11086, title = {Leila}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. London: Faber \& Faber, 2018. 265 pp.\ 

}, month = {2017}, publisher = {Simon \& Schuster India}, address = {Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India}, abstract = {

In a future India that is a dictatorship and dealing with climate change, a woman\’s husband is killed, her daughter is abducted, and she is sent to a prison camp. Escaping, she searches for her daughter.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {9780571341313}, author = {Prayaag Akbar (b. 1982)} } @booklet {9801, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Shadowed Forest{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {273-84}, publisher = {EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing}, address = {Calgary, AB, Canada}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which everyone is expected to have a divide implanted so that everything that they and those they are with do and say is recorded.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, Indian author}, author = {Rati Mehrotra}, editor = {Spider Robinson (b. 1948) and James Alan} } @booklet {9570, title = {"Islets of the Blessed"}, howpublished = {Flash Fiction Press}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 372-80.\ 

}, month = {February 13, 2016}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a rigidly structured society where someone can sell their body to be taken over by one of the wealthy needing a new one.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, url = {http://www.theflashfictionpress.org/2016/02/13/short-story-saturday-2/ }, author = {Nidhi Singh} } @booklet {11174, title = {Half of What I Say}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {438 pp.}, publisher = {Bloomsbury India}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

A complex novel set in a future India that is trying to police contemporary culture with the aim of eliminating everything that conflicts with the government\’s image of India.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {9789384898229}, author = {Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964)} } @booklet {9587, title = {The Island of Lost Girls}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Hachette, India}, address = {Gurgaon, India}, abstract = {

Sequel to 2008 Padmanabhan in which the girl and her father hve escaped India and live of the Island of Lost Girls, where they are having difficulties adapting to the modern world and the girl is having to learn what it means to be a woman.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953)} } @booklet {11084, title = {The Lesson}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {192 pp}, publisher = {HarperCollins India}, address = {Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India}, abstract = {

Dystopia satire in which the Adjustment Bureau enforces the Conduct Book but people, and women in particular, still do not always follow the rules, and that calls for additional means to bring them under control.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {9789351770367}, author = {Sowmya Rajendran} } @booklet {11224, title = {Murder With Bengali Characteristics}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {184 pp.}, publisher = {Aleph Book Company}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

Murder mystery and humor set in a future dystopian India that is ruled by China.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {9789382277798}, author = {Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021)} } @booklet {9335, title = {"Cast Out"}, howpublished = {Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 70-83.

}, month = {2014}, pages = {60-73}, publisher = {Young Zubaan}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

Feminist fantasy story with eutopian elements. A community punishes women who practice magic, even to save their lives, and casts them out to die at sea. But other women who practice magic and have created a women-only eutopia on an island rescues the cast out women and brings them to the island.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Sanhita Arni}, editor = {Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) and Payal Dhar and Anita Roy} } @booklet {9337, title = {"Cooking Time"}, howpublished = {Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 46-57.

}, month = {2014}, pages = {36-47}, publisher = {Young Zubaan}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia in which the only food available is manufactured.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, UK author}, author = {Anita Roy}, editor = {Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) and Payal Dhar and Anita Roy} } @booklet {8166, title = {"Game"}, howpublished = {The World to Come}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {159-69}, publisher = {Spineless Wonders}, address = {Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a virus has supposedly wiped out most humans and animals and an authoritarian government controls access to those areas outside the contained cities.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, author = {Tabish Khair}, editor = {Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi} } @booklet {9032, title = {The Competent Authority. A Novel}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {Aleph Book Co.}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

The satirical novel is set in a future fragmented India with parts under the control of China, which has used nuclear weapons against India. In part of the remaining India, a man who is simply called the Competent Authority controls the system and has odd plans for the future.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, author = {Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021)} } @booklet {11107, title = {Domechild}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {382 pp}, publisher = {Penguin Random House India}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

The protagonist is a man living in an authoritarian, surveilled dystopia who works in a small cubicle checking up on other people. \“Perfection is vigilance. Nobody is perfect until everybody is perfect. Everybody is guilty until nobody is.\” Any dissent means being taken away by \“lawbots\” to never be seen again. The man loses his way going to home and discovers people living rough outside the controlled area, saves one from the \“lawbots,\” takes her home, and then is blackmailed by an AI, with most of the rest of the novel about him dealing with the resulting problems. The novel ends with the suggestion of a sequel, but none has been published.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780143332985}, author = {Shiv Ramdas} } @booklet {8309, title = {Looking Backward: 2050-2013}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {CreateSpace}, address = {North Charleston, SC}, abstract = {

The current situation rapidly deteriorates into a dystopia after Sarah Palin (b. 1964) supported by a Congress dominated by the far-right, was elected President in 2020. The U.S. economy collapses. As the price for bailing out the U.S., other countries insisted on the establishment of a world government (the United States of the World) and nation-states disappear. Presented as if a history of the period. Includes biographies of a number of recent and current political figures, some projected into the future.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Ravi Morey} } @booklet {6505, title = {"Indra{\textquoteright}s Web"}, howpublished = {TRSF. A special issue of Technology Review (MIT) }, year = {2011}, note = {

Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines \& Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 145-54.

}, month = {[October] 2011}, pages = {9-13}, abstract = {

An SF story that focuses on a new power source set in a previous slum outside Delhi, India that had been completely rebuilt using traditional methods and providing a better life for its inhabitants.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, author = {Vandana Singh (b. 1950)} } @booklet {9546, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Are You Sannata3159?{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Postscripts $\#$22/23: The Company He Keeps}, year = {2010}, note = {

Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines \& Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 123-44.\ 

}, month = {2010}, pages = {276-93}, publisher = {PS Publishing}, address = {Hornsea, Eng}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future India with an extreme division by the rich and the poor in which the rich live in beautiful cities built on top of the areas in which the poor live. The establishment of a slaughterhouse brings well-paying jobs and hope, but the workers are all given a drug that keeps them from realizing the humans are part of the meat being processed.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, author = {Vandana Singh (b. 1950)}, editor = {Peter Crowther (b. 1949) and Nick Gevers} } @booklet {6127, title = {Escape}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, publisher = {Picador}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

Feminist dystopia of a world with no females and the difficulties of the one girl born.\ See 2015 Padmanabhan for a sequel.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953)} } @booklet {5903, title = {"Persephone{\textquoteright}s Library"}, howpublished = {Tesseracts Eleven}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {89-103}, publisher = {Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy}, address = {Calgary, AL, Canada}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia. A small community living at what appears to be the edge of the world is dominated by one man, who prohibits learning predating the event that created the community and takes multiple wives for himself.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, Indian author}, author = {[Susan Lynne] [Deefholts] (1942-2015)}, editor = {Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) and Holly Phillips (b. 1969)} } @booklet {9312, title = {Shall We Save the Earth?}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {75 pp.}, publisher = {AuthorHouse}, address = {Milton Keynes, Eng.}, abstract = {

A eutopia called \“Society Without Selfishness\” (SWS). \“The entire scheme of SWS is based on the simple motive of providing free food, clothing and shelter to every earthizen while curbing all luxuries now enjoyed by selected few\” (ix). All weapons destroyed. One religion. World government. No pollution. No night work except in hospitals.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-4343-1049-1}, author = {Royston Fernandes} } @booklet {5721, title = {Racists}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, publisher = {Weidenfeld \& Nicolson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopian experiment in which a black and a white child are raised on a barren island cared for only by a mute nurse.

}, keywords = {English author, Indian author, Male author}, author = {Kunal Basu (b. 1956)} } @booklet {5614, title = {Signal Red}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Penguin Books}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future India that is one of the most advanced countries scientifically. The government controls all science and scientists, who live in compounds which neither they or their families can leave.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Indian author, Northern Ireland author}, author = {Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969)} } @booklet {5563, title = {"Delhi"}, howpublished = {So Long Been Dreaming}, year = {2004}, note = {

Rpt. in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 229-42; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 125-47.\ 

}, month = {2004}, pages = {79-94}, publisher = {Arsenal Pulp Press}, address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, abstract = {

The story contrasts the dystopian present of India\ with brief flashes of eutopian and dystopian futures.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author, US author}, author = {Vandana Singh (b. 1950)}, editor = {[Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) and Uppinder Mehan} } @booklet {5195, title = {The Last Jet-Engine Laugh}, year = {2001}, note = {

Rpt. London: Flamingo, 2001. [Book jacket adds\ India 1930-2030: A Novel]. Part was originally published in\ Civil Lines\ (Delhi, India).

}, month = {2001}, publisher = {Harper Collins India}, address = {Noida, UP, India}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a future India that is developing as a military superpower, but the focus is on the relations among the characters rather than on the society.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, author = {Ruchir Joshi (b. 1960)} } @booklet {5074, title = {Mammaries of the Welfare State}, year = {2000}, publisher = {Penguin Books India}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

Satire on the dystopian Indian bureaucracy. Sequel to his English, August: An Indian Story. London: Faber \& Faber, 1988.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, author = {Upamanyu Chatterjee (b. 1959)} } @booklet {9577, title = {Idol Love}, year = {1999}, month = {1999}, publisher = {Ravi Dayal Publisher}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

Dystopia with the first part set in the present depicting a woman whose live choices are restricted by social norms. The other two parts are set in a future where religious rules restrict women even more.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Anuradha Marwah-Roy} } @booklet {8584, title = {"India 2099"}, howpublished = {In a special issue entitled India 999-1999 Millennium Special of Outlook (New Delhi)}, volume = {no. 44}, year = {1999}, note = {

Rpt. as \“2099.\” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 149-60.

}, month = {November 15, 1999}, pages = {180, 182, 185}, abstract = {

Future of India that has been changed first by two atomic bombs, then by Indians establishing space colonies which transform the remaining parts of India into an apparent eutopia.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, url = {http://www.outlookindia.com/article/india-2099/208405}, author = {Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953)} } @booklet {9728, title = {Harvest}, year = {1998}, note = {

Rpt. in Black and Asian Plays (London: Aurora Metro Books/The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, 2000), 10-89. A standalone version of the play with unauthorized cuts was published by the same publisher in 2003. Rev. in Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology. Ed. Helen Gilbert (London: Routledge, 2011), 217-249, with an editor\’s \“Introduction\” (214-216). Rev \& exp. ed. Gurgram, India: Hachette India, 2017 with a new introduction by the author (unpaged); and Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Ed. W[illiam] B. Worthen. 6th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011), 1727-1755.

}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Kali for Women}, address = {Delhi, India}, abstract = {

Dystopian play focusing on the sale of body parts by the poor to the rich.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953)} } @booklet {4905, title = {"The Truth About Weena"}, howpublished = {Dreaming Down-Under}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, pages = {161-92. "Afterword" (192-93)}, publisher = {HarperCollins}, address = {Sydney, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

On a different time line from that described in 1895 Wells, the Eloi woman Weena is brought back from the future and becomes a political activist, leading to a better society. See 1977 Lake and the note there.

}, keywords = {Australian author, English author, Indian author, Male author}, author = {David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016)}, editor = {Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) and Janeen Webb} } @booklet {8572, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Essence of Gandhi{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {New Internationalist Magazine}, volume = {no. 293}, year = {1997}, note = {

Rpt. as \“Gandhi-Toxin.\” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 91-98.

}, month = {August 1997}, abstract = {

Satire on genetic manipulation that begins in a dystopia that controls all genes and then moves toward a eutopia based on the genes of Gandhi.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, url = {http://newint.org/features/1997/08/05/gandhi/ }, author = {Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953)} } @booklet {4743, title = {Building Babel}, year = {1996}, month = {1996}, publisher = {Spinifex Press}, address = {North Melbourne, VIC, Australia}, abstract = {

Feminist fairy tale in which a number of women from fables and fairy tales build various versions of Babel. Throughout, but particularly at the end, a variety of utopian motifs are employed.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, English author, Female author, Indian author}, author = {Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941)} } @booklet {8899, title = {"Stolen Hours"}, howpublished = {Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories}, year = {1996}, note = {

Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 169-83.\ 

}, month = {1996}, pages = {188-204}, publisher = {Kali for Women}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

The setting of a science fiction story is a dystopia of rigid class distinction based on ethnicity and immigration .

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953)} } @booklet {4073, title = {The Mothers of Maya Dip}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, publisher = {Women{\textquoteright}s Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Matriarchy with problems. Feminist humor.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, English author, Female author, Indian author}, author = {Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941)} } @booklet {8836, title = {{\textquotedblleft}A Government of India undertaking . . .{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Imprint (Bombay, India)}, volume = {24.1}, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. in In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Ed. Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1992), 1-24. \ U.K. ed. (London: The Women\’s Press, 1993), 1-24; U.S. ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 1-24. Rpt. in Critical Quarterly 35.4 (December 1993): 66-79;\ in her Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1996), 111-32. Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 99-117; and in her Three Virgins and Other Stories (New Delhi, India: Zubaan, 2013), 17-38.\ 

}, month = {April 1984}, pages = {88-93, 95-96}, abstract = {

Dystopian Kafkaesque satire focusing on the \“Bureau of Reincarnation and Transmigration of Souls--A Government of India Undertaking.\”\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953)} } @booklet {8573, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Sharing Air{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Kleptomania. Ten Stories }, year = {1984}, note = {

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.\ 

}, month = {[1984?]/2004}, pages = {83-90}, publisher = {Penguin Books India}, address = {New Delhi, India}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953)} } @booklet {3300, title = {The Man Who Loved Morlocks: A Sequel to {\textquoteright}The Time Machine{\textquoteright} As Narrated By the Time Traveller}, year = {1981}, month = {1981}, publisher = {Hyland Press}, address = {Melbourne, VIC, Australia}, abstract = {

H.G. Wells\&$\#$39;s time traveler returns to the future and discovers a people descended from the Morlocks. They have created a society similar to ancient Sparta, where he chooses to stay. On his first trip he had inadvertently killed most of the Eloi and the original Morlocks, who had no immunity to diseases he carried. Includes a report by the Morlocks on the first trip.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, English author, Indian author, Male author}, author = {David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016)} } @booklet {2935, title = {The Right Hand of Dextra}, year = {1977}, month = {1977}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Background of dystopian Puritan society but includes a eutopia of humans transformed into centaurs. A non-utopian sequel is The Wildings of Westron. New York: DAW Books, 1977.

}, keywords = {Australian author, English author, Indian author, Male author}, author = {David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016)} } @booklet {2853, title = {The Man With Two Memories}, year = {1976}, month = {1976}, publisher = {Merlin Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Detailed eutopia with a stress on psychoanalysis and drugs to control both the mind and body. Two-thirds of the children are clones who are chosen by the society for desirable characteristics with the other third being normal births.

}, keywords = {English author, Indian author, Male author}, author = {J[ohn] B[urdon] S[anderson] Haldane (1892-1964)} } @booklet {2829, title = {Grimus}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, publisher = {Victor Gollancz}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Something of a metaphysical adventure novel with science fiction elements. The main society described is labeled \"utopian\" (186) because it functions on a basis of rough equality and with no money.

}, keywords = {English author, Indian author, Male author}, author = {[Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)} } @booklet {1434, title = {Whither Bharat? or, The Mission From Moonland}, year = {1952}, month = {1952}, publisher = {New Book Co}, address = {Bombay, India}, abstract = {

Political satire using an imaginary country.

}, keywords = {Indian author}, author = {Jehangir F[ramjee] Kotewal} } @booklet {1143, title = {Humanism or the Human Religion}, year = {1940}, month = {1940}, publisher = {The Vishwa Sewak Sangha}, address = {Jawalumukhi, Himalaya, India}, abstract = {

Chapter 8 on \"How to Put the Doctrine of Humanism into Practice or A Scheme of Works for the Beatification of the World\" presents a eutopia.\ Annual meetings of an \“All-world\” body of citizens to consider\ improvements. A \“Cosmic University\” focusing on moral and religious training, the graduates of which will form a \“Peace Army.\” Encourage village political autonomy with a federal system for larger issues. World language. Enforcement of moral standards.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, author = {Swami Krishanand} } @booklet {1112, title = {The Making of a New World}, year = {1939}, month = {1939}, publisher = {Pub. by the Author}, address = {Calcutta, India}, abstract = {

Essay. Detailed eutopia which stresses education and an economic system in which all are employed six hours a day producing for the good of society, goods are supplied free, and money, banks, interest, and rent have been abolished. Men and women are equal. Marriage is not permitted before 19 and must be based on consent. Divorce is possible.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, author = {Abinash Chandra [Avin{\={a}}sa-Chandra] Lahiri} } @booklet {770, title = {The People of the Blue Mountains}, year = {1930}, month = {1930}, publisher = {Theosophical Press}, address = {Wheaton, IL}, abstract = {

An odd book that is often cataloged as an ethnography, but it presented as an account of an obviously fictional trip into an earthly paradise in the mountains of India. Lost race eutopia used as an excuse to teach Theosophy.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Indian author, Russian author}, author = {H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky (1831-91)} } @booklet {9624, title = {When Parliaments Fail: A Synthetic View from the Gallery}, year = {1927}, month = {1927}, publisher = {Thacker, Spink \& Co}, address = {Calcutta, India}, abstract = {

Discusses Parliaments in England, France, Germany, and Italy and the utopian Parliaments envisaged in each country.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author}, url = {https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100251}, author = {A Sympathiser [pseud.]} } @booklet {178, title = {"Sultana{\textquoteright}s Dream"}, howpublished = {The Indian Ladies{\textquoteright} Magazine (Madras, India)}, volume = { 5.3 }, year = {1905}, note = {

Rpt. as by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (all the reprints use this name) in her Sultana\’s Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones. Ed. and trans. Roushan Jahan (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1988), 7-18; in The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800--World War II. Ed. A. Susan Williams (New York: Carroll \& Graf, 1992), 350-60; in her Sultana\’s Dream and Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias. Trans. Barnita Bagchi. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2005 [Pamarag was first published in Bengali. Calcutta, India: Author, 1924]; updated ed. New York: Penguin Books, 2022, with an \“Introduction\” Tanya Agathocleous (vii-xxviii), two essays by Hossain: \“God Gives, Man Robs\” (203-205), first published in The Mussalman (December 7, 1927), and \“Educational Ideals for the Modern India Girls\” (205-210), first published in The Mussalman (March 5, 1931), a Glossary (211-212), and \”Suggestions for Further Reading\” (213-218); in The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: Peter Owen, 2010): 144-55 with an editor\’s note on 143; The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Ed. Mohammed Quayum (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013), 159-68, which reprints what Quayum identifies as the first book publication (Calcutta, India: S. K. Lahiri, 1908), and includes a chronology of her life (xii-xiv) and a biographical essay (xv-xxxii); in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 10-16 with an editors\’ note on 9; in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 140-47; in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 385-94; in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 149-59, with an editor\’s introduction on 133-48; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 1-16. Only the Vandermeers and Claeys and Sargent reproduce the original text as published.

}, month = {September 1905}, pages = {82-86}, abstract = {

\“Sultana\’s Dream\” is a dream of Ladyland, which is a country of women brought about through education for women. Her Padmarag (Bengali 1924/English 2005) is mostly concerned with the conditions of women in India, but central to the novel is a community of women established by one woman to provide refuge for women, education for girls, and care for sick and poor women. The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Ed. Mohammed Quayum. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013 translates and reprints other stories and essays by Hossain, including some essays on women\’s rights.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Mrs. R[okeya] S[akhawat] Hossan [Hossain] (1880-1932)} } @booklet {9181, title = {"Our Animated Flat{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Strand Magazine}, volume = {26.151 }, year = {1903}, month = {July 1903}, pages = {48-57}, abstract = {

Satire on technological improvements to domestic life.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Indian author}, author = {[Edith Cecil] [Maturin] (b. ca. 1865)} } @booklet {9609, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Republic of Oriss{\'a}; A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Bengal Hurkaru and India Gazette}, year = {1845}, note = {

Rpt. in Bengaliana: A Dish of Rice and Curry, and Other Indigestible Ingredients (Calcutta, India: Thacker, Spink, and Co., [1878]), 347-56. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up; in Selections from \‘Bengaliana\’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-59, with a Glossary on 164-38;\ and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 133-41, with an editor\’s introduction on 126-32.\ 

}, month = {May 25, 1845}, abstract = {

The story is set in the dystopia of colonial India with the government passing a law that supports slavery, which leads to a revolt in which the British are defeated but then ignore what they had agreed to do.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-78-308863-8, 9781842330494}, url = {https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up}, author = {Shoshee Chunder Dutt (1824-85)} } @booklet {11139, title = {"1980"}, howpublished = {Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835}, year = {1835}, note = {

Rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 85-108, with an editor\’s introduction on 77-83.\ 

}, month = {1835}, abstract = {

Technological utopia set in India with women serving in Parliament and limited racial equality for the wealthy.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-78-308863-8}, author = {H[enry] H[urry] Goodeve (1807-84)} } @booklet {9398, title = {{\textquotedblleft}A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours in the Year 1945{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Calcutta Literary Gazette, or Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and the Arts }, volume = {3 (ns no. 75) }, year = {1835}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Wasafiri (India) 21.3 (November 2006): 15-20; in Selections from \‘Bengaliana\’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-59, with a Glossary on 164-38; and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 115-26, with an editor\’s introduction on 109-14. \ 

}, month = {June 6, 1835}, pages = {355-59}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the \“British Barbarians\” suppress a revolt.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-78-308863-8, 9781842330494}, author = {Kylas Chunder Dutt (1817-59)} } @booklet {11137, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Junction of the Ocean. A Tale of the Year 2098{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835 }, year = {1835}, note = {

Rev. in the author\’s Bole Ponjis, Containing the Tale of the Buccaneer; A Bottle of Red Ink; The Decline and Fall of Ghosts; and Other Ingredients. 2. vols. (London/Calcutta, India: W. Thacker \& Co., 1851), 1: 132-215. https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up; rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 38-75, with an editor\’s introduction on 29-37.\ 

}, month = {1835}, pages = {1-55}, abstract = {

Disaster/dystopian story told by a survivor. The construction of the Panama Canal produces a massive flood when the two oceans come together, ultimately inundating most of the world.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-78-308863-8}, url = {https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up}, author = {Henry Meredith Parker (1796-1868)} }