Gautham Shenoy March 9, 2019 ‘Imagination is back with a bang in Indian literature, if the bookstore aisles clogged with all manner of speculative fiction are anything to go by,’ the SF author Anil Menon wrote in a piece recently. I agree. But then, when was imagination ever missing from Indian literature, especially SF, speculative fiction, to come back? For you see, people who wonder if such a thing called ‘Indian SF’ exists…
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Grandfather’s paradox
Grandfather’s paradox By Kumar L It had taken me two decades, but I was ready now. I was going to solve the greatest paradox in time travel. If I went back in time and killed my own grandfather, then I would not have been born. And if I have never been born, then how can I go back in time and kill my grandfather. So my grandfather will remain alive;…
Iron Heart
He moved in the shadows. No one could see him but that did not mean he was invisible. He was too lowly to be tracked by the council. As long as he kept to his regular path and did…
Twist Break Throw
The first day on a new job is the toughest they’d told her and she had thought she was prepared. Arriving early at the processing stations, she’d been scanned in and assigned to level 4.
Indian SciFi – factordaily.com and Gautham Shenoy
Voyagers thrusters fired remotely after 37 years
The Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since 1980. They are located on the back side of the spacecraft in this orientation. At present, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is 21 billion kilometers from Earth, or about 141 times the distance between the Earth and Sun. It has, in fact, moved beyond our Solar System into interstellar space. However, we can still communicate with…
I decided to translate my book to Hindi
I love writing. There is no doubt about it. Inspite of being a native Hindi speaker, I prefer to write in English. Once I had finished Book 1, I realised that I wanted to share it with a very wide audience within India. There are however many many languages in India with hundreds of dialects. I know a few of them, but decided to concentrate on Hindi – which is…
The story behind Earth to Centauri
Earth to Centauri – The First Journey Alpha Centauri the nearest star system to Earth has always fascinated astronomers, scientists and fiction readers. The system holds a certain mystery because despite it is being our nearest neighbour we know very little about it. The current technology limits our understanding of the twin stars. Some probes launched in the last century will still take decades to travel outside our system. They…