num_pages: 206
description: 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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title: The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories
publisher: Zubaan Books / Penguin India