Philip K. Dick Award finalist
Praise for Vandana Singh:
"A most promising and original young writer."--Ursula K. Le Guin
"Lovely! What a pleasure this book is . . . full of warmth, compassion,
affection, high comedy and low."--Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of
Horses
"Vandana Singh's radiant protagonist is a planet unto
herself."--Village Voice
"Sweeping starscapes and daring cosmology that make Singh a worthy heir
to Cordwainer Smith and Arthur C. Clarke."--Chris Moriarty, Fantasy &
Science Fiction
"I'm looking forward to the collection . . . everything I've read has
impressed me--the past and future visions in 'Delhi', the intensity of
'Thirst', the feeling of escape at the end of 'The Tetrahedron'..."
--Niall Harrison, Vector (British Science Fiction Association)
"...the first writer of Indian origin to make a serious mark in the SF
world ... she writes with such a beguiling touch of the strange."
--Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard
In her first North American collection, Vandana Singh's deep humanism
interplays with her scientific background in stories that explore and
celebrate this world and others and characters who are trying to make
sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they
face. An eleventh century poet wakes to find he is as an artificially
intelligent companion on a starship. A woman of no account has the
ability to look into the past. In Requiem, a major new novella, a woman
goes to Alaska to try and make sense of her aunt's disappearance.
Singh's stories have been performed on BBC radio, been finalists for the
British SF Association award, selected for the Tiptree award honor list,
and oft reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies. Her dives deep into
the vast strangeness of the universe without and within and with her
unblinking clear vision she explores the ways we move through space and
time: together, yet always apart.
