That time of the year & as always, putting down in one thread a whole bunch of #IndianSF (spec-fic) i've read & recommended this year; short fiction you can read right now, online & for free. If there was a Year's Best Indian Speculative Fiction, these would be on it. Here goes: "The Demon Sage's Daughter" by @varshadineshs over at @strangehorizons goes beyond boring Mahabharata fanfic & tired mythsploitation. Quite the retelling of the Kacha/Shukracharya story as Devayani makes it hers, with versions to shape her destiny strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-de…

On this day, 52 years ago, #Apollo11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on to the moon. But did you know that readers of the #Kannada weekly magazine Sudha had already made this lunar round-trip few months earlier? Thanks to...
1/4 ...this board game called ಚಂದ್ರಗ್ರಹಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಬನ್ನಿ (Travel to the Moon and back). The game had two parts: Taking off & landing on the moon, and then making your way back safely to Earth. Played with a dice & coins, instructions on the board dictated how fast you went & how safely

It's that time of the year. So here's some good #IndianSF i've enjoyed in 2020; short fiction in English that's available to read for free. Given there's been quite a few of them (good year for Indian SF, yay!), this thread won't be short... The stories in @UnseenFic, the speculative flash fiction zine started by @anandphilipc & @kazarelth. 7 eps so far (hope more are on way) with 2 stories each that you can read or listen, by @_drongo, @iRatzzz, @swarraj, @alwayskasht,
@WhatAboutMyStar et al
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When we think of Uncle Pai aka Anant Pai, we think of Amar Chitra Katha & Tinkle. But his journey in India comics began actually with Indrajal Comics (which came about for an interesting reason). & if it wasn't for Anant Pai, Phantom wouldn't be so big in India.
A short thread... Early 1960s Anant Pai was working at Times of India, whose publisher, Bennet Coleman & Co. owned rotary-presses which they used to print calendars. But after Deepavali/holiday season these presses would lie idle. So Pai's boss, P.K.Roy got him some imported Superman comics and...

What?? You don't want to read SF/F by dead white problematic men? Cool. You'd rather read stories by one of our own?? Cool-er! Because i've got you covered, with this here thread on some fine recent-ish short fiction by Indian writers you can read online right now...
#IndianSF From the one-&-only Vandana Singh, this title story from her latest collection, Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories explores new concepts in machine design/function by way of an engineering exam...
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Contrary to popular perception, Amar Chitra Katha was not created by Anant Pai aka Uncle Pai & neither was it in English to begin with! The story of Amar Chitra Katha begins in Bangalore & with ಕನ್ನಡ….
#comics #indiancomics 1/7 …The story of Amar Chitra Katha begins in namma Bengaluru as the brainchild of an India Book House (IBH) salesman, G.K. Ananthram who convinced his boss, IBH owner G.L. Mirchandani to let him publish books in Kannada as he felt there was lack of Indian stories at the time...

0. No ‘Indian’ scifi?? Well, here’s some. Putting in one thread the #NWWonFD pieces (so far) on Indian SF (SF frm India/by Indian authors) 1. On the ‘scientifiction’ of Jayant Narlikar who’s(also) written perhaps only scifi tale with test cricket #NWWonFD factordaily.com/science-fictio…