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| Original Title: | The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories ISBN13 9788189884048 |
Vandana Singh
Trade Paperback | Pages: 206 pages Rating: 3.97 | 182 Users | 40 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Vandana Singh |
| Book Format | : | Trade Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 206 pages |
| Published | : | January 30th 2009 by Zubaan Books / Penguin India (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Anthologies |
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Well known and well regarded in the world of science fiction and fantasy writing, Vandana Singh brings her unique imagination to a wider audience in this collection of stories, newly reissued by Zubaan Books. In the title story, a woman tells her husband of her curious discovery: that she is inhabited by small alien creatures. In another, a young girl making her way to college through the streets of Delhi comes across a mysterious tetrahedron. Is it a spaceship? Or a secret weapon?The first Indian female speculative fiction writer, Singh has said that her genre is a “chance to find ourselves part of a larger whole; to step out of the claustrophobia of the exclusively human and discover joy, terror, wonder, and meaning in the greater universe.” A revolutionary voice in fantasy writing, Singh brings her passion for discovery to these stories, and the result is like nothing of this world.
Contents:
Hunger (2007)
Delhi (2004)
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet (2003)
Infinities (2008)
Thirst (2004)
Conservation Laws (2008)
Three Tales from Sky River: Myths for a Starfaring Age (2004)
The Tetrahedron (2005)
The Wife (2003)
The Room on the Roof (2002)
A Speculative Manifesto (2008) essay
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Ratings: 3.97 From 182 Users | 40 ReviewsRate Based On Books The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories
This is NOT an anthology of science fiction stories. It is a collection of strong short stories which use various tropes of science fiction as plot devices to further the stories of the protagonists. Several reviewers have held them as examples of speculative fiction. That's vague. Actually these stories are all about finding one's truer self, in my opinion.Those stories are:1. Hunger2. Delhi3. The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet (best story of the book)4. Infinities5. Thirst6. Conservation
This is a beautiful, beautiful book.Singh is such a fantastic prose artist. Don't look for tired phrasing here; her prose is imaginative, evocative, it brims with unusual images and juxtapositions. That imagination carries over to her stories. Singh has a real talent for making you invest deeply in her characters right quick; you find yourself caring, so much, about what happens. And what happens is always unusual and thought-provoking.I normally find myself reading short story collections and
Thank you GOODREADS! I had never encountered Vandana Singh's works prior to seeing this collection's title on one of GOODREADS' "Best Books..." lists. The book's title was sufficiently intriguing for me to chase down a Univ. of Wisconsin copy through interlibrary loan to one of my local Denver branch libraries. My wait of several weeks was amply rewarded.If the quality of the stories in this collection is perhaps a bit uneven, it's only because Dr. Singh -- she has a Ph.D. in theoretcial
The first Zubaan book I picked up, this collection of short stories is a brilliant addition to the Indian speculative fiction genre. The stories in this collection fall everywhere in the speculative fiction spectrum, including magical realism, hard science fiction, and anthropology-based science fiction, as well as a few that don't seem to have much to do with speculative fiction at all!The Stories"Hunger"A housewife who would rather be reading science-fiction novels is stuck preparing for a
I absolutely heart and relish this inventive, thought-provoking and compassionate collection of stories that situate women in various fantastic, yet familiar, settings and imbue them with whimsical powers drawn from their bodies, imaginations and sheer forces of will. Singh has a great intuition for comedy, suspense and precise dialogue. Nearly perfect craft-wise, these stories made me weep, laugh and feel giddily triumphant. I recommend this book to everyone, and will purchase a copy myself.
I love the way this woman, a physicist born in Delhi, India, writes. I first encountered her when I read her two delightful children's books, Younguncle Comes to Town and Younguncle in the Himalayas. Both books have elements of the fantastic which are carried further in this adult book of science fiction stories. However, not only are her stories full of the weird, unusual, and uncanny, but they are also interwoven with stories about Indian women unhappy in their lives and looking for a change
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