Bridge to Global Literature
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These fifteen stories, ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and horror, encompass elements, cultural context, history, and people of the subcontinent. While “Ascension” asks about the role of casteism in a tidally locked secondary world, “The Elevator Era” discusses the state of stark economic disparity in a devastated world through the eyes of two terracotta artists. “Mare Tranqualatalis” explores the role of indigenous honey collectors of Sundarbans in a bee-less world where rising sea levels have given rise to sentient threats–both men and abominable. “Children Between Lines” asks what happens to freedom and dissent in a totalitarian world. “The Old Age Home at the End of the Universe” explores what happens to old parents when the world dies. Together, these stories promise action, adventure, humor, love and hate, disparity and salvation, redemption and revenge, and everything in between.
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The universe is made of adrift quarks and speculative dreams. As a part of this universe, Soham Guha often finds himself in his suburban home near Kolkata (India). He writes in both his mother tongue, Bengali, and English. His works have been published in Kalpabiswa, Scroll.in, Mohs 5.5: Megastructures (Part of LunarCodex), Mithila Review, Desh, Kishore Bharati, Unish-Kuri, Meteotopia: Futures of Climate (In)justice, Rikka Zine, Ecooceanic: Southern Flows, and The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Vol II. His Bengali speculative fiction works are featured in Arshimedes and Other Stories (2022, Kalpabiswa Publications). His debut novel, Opragoitihasik: Part I: ISwarer Bagan, published in 2023 by Kalpabiswa, is the first part of a hard science fiction trilogy. A collection of his essays was also translated into Chinese and featured in the Hugo-winning magazine Zero Gravity. Apart from being a writer, he is also the editor of speculative fiction and thrillers at The Antonym Collections, curating the imprint Red Herring. His upcoming novels, both Bengali and English, are stories he has long wished to bring to life.
Sarban Bandyopadhyay is an assistant professor of English at S.M.S.G. College, Sherghati under Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. Currently a functioning trilingual, he is a speculative fiction enthusiast and rhymester, as well as a translator between Bengali and English, his first two languages.His areas of academic interest include speculative fiction and Queer studies, which are also the fields he intends to creatively explore. Fascinated by languages in general, he is working on expanding his domain by reading Hindi fiction and learning some of the other major languages of India, and Japanese. His attempts to put his translations out to the world began with Wikipedia in 2014. Since 2022, his fiction and translations from English to Bengali have been published in Kalpabiswa webzine, and he translated two of the six short stories by the esteemed author Abhijit Sen in the collection Six Stories (The Antonym Collections, 2024).
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