Synopses & Reviews
Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn't have the right connections--but then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod. Indeed, everyone on Aman's flight now has extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires.
Vir, a pilot, can now fly.
Uzma, an aspiring Bollywood actress, now possesses infinite charisma.
And then there's Jai, an indestructible one-man army with a good old-fashioned goal -- to rule the world!
Aman wants to ensure that their new powers aren't wasted on costumed crime-fighting, celebrity endorsements, or reality television. He wants to heal the planet but with each step he takes, he finds helping some means harming others. Will it all end, as 80 years of superhero fiction suggest, in a meaningless, explosive slugfest?
Turbulence features the 21st-century Indian subcontinent in all its insane glory--F-16s, Bollywood, radical religious parties, nuclear plants, cricket, terrorists, luxury resorts, crazy TV shows -- but it is essentially about two very human questions. How would you feel if you actually got what you wanted? And what would you do if you could really change the world?
Review
“Vandana Singh is a most promising and original young author.”
Synopsis
Samit Basu is one of India's most talented and prolific young writers with an existing and impressive profile in comics culture, science fiction and fantasy.
Synopsis
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOU ACTUALLY GOT WHAT YOU WANTED?AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU COULD REALLY CHANGE THE WORLD?
Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. But then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod. Indeed, everyone on Aman's flight now has extraordinary abilities. Aman wants to heal the planet but with each step he takes, he finds helping some means harming others.
Will it end, as eighty years of superhero fiction, suggest, in a meaningless, explosive slugfest?
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Vandana Singh is the author of Younguncle Comes to Town and its sequel, Younguncle in the Himalayas.
Table of Contents
1. Hunger
2. Delhi
3. The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet
4. Infinities
5. Thirst
6. Conservation Laws
7. Three Tales from Sky River
8. The Tetrahedron
9. The Wife
10. The Room on the Room
A Speculative Manifesto
Acknowledgements
Vandana Singh on PowellsBooks.Blog
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