With Fate Conspire
A Handful of Rice
Peripateia
Life-pod
Oblivion: A Journey
Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra
Are you Sannata3159?
Indra’s Web
Ruminations in an Alien Tongue
Sailing the Antarsa
Cry of the Kharchal
Wake-Rider
Ambiguity Machines: An Examination
Requiem
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Vandana Singh (vandana-writes.com) was born in India and she currently lives near Boston, Mass., where she professes physics and writes. Her short stories have appeared in many Best of Year anthologies and she has received the Carl Brandon Parallax award. Her books include the ALA Notable book Younguncle Comes to Town.
Publishers WeeklyTop 10 SF, Fantasy & Horror Spring 2018:
"Physicist and SF author Singh’s first collection for U.S. readers
is a spectacular assembly of work and not to be missed by fans of
cutting-edge SF with a deeply human sensibility." “Singh defies
expectation with every exquisite turn of phrase. She gives you
strange, powerful visions that move the heart and challenge the
mind.”— Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper
Menagerie and Other Stories "Ranging in scale from the smallest
life to far-ranging interplanetary adventures, and drawing upon
both science and mythology, Vandana Singh's stories are luminous
and compassionate." — Yoon Ha Lee, author of Ninefox Gambit "For
all the book’s diversity, though, a few signal traits stand out.
Like Ursula K. Le Guin, Ms. Singh is drawn to scientists, and her
speculative worlds are often fleshed out through field reports and
research abstracts. . . . The capstone to this hopeful, enriching
collection is the small masterpiece 'Requiem,' set in Alaska in a
future scarred by climate change and dominated by massive tech
corporations. A university student named Varsha has gone to a polar
outpost to collect the effects of her aunt Rima, a brilliant
scientist and engineer who died while researching whales. There
Varsha witnesses a whale migration herself, and it’s this
miraculous encounter amid the increasingly artificial world that
reaffirms the 'tenuous, temporal bridge between being and being.'
The more mechanized our future, Ms. Singh suggests, the more
precious our connections with the living will be."— Sam Sacks, Wall
Street Journal "As ambitious and cerebral as the various
experiments her scientist characters embark on. The stories are
full of the musings of these scientist-philosophers as they
navigate relationships, grief and the space-time continuum —
fitting, as Singh herself is a physicist. . . . There’s a wonderful
discordance between the cool, reflective quality of Singh’s prose
and the colorful imagery and powerful longing in her narratives."—
Washington Post "Through the complexities of physics and the wisdom
of ancient stories, Singh breathes new life into the themes of
loneliness, kinship, love, curiosity, and the thirst for knowledge.
Ambiguity Machines and Other Storiesis a literary gift for us
all.”
— Rachel Cordasco, World Literature Today "The novella original to
the collection, 'Requiem,' comes at the question of life,
connection, and the near-future of our planet by putting Indian and
Native Alaskan cultures into conversation among the backdrop of a
rising tide of White Nationalism in America. Singh’s story of a
woman coming to retrieve her much-beloved aunt’s personal and
research materials from a far-north research facility is rich,
dense, and balanced in its handling of grief as well as its
argument about whales, humans, and the languages that can connect
us all."— Brit Mandelo, Tor.com "Singh is laying the groundwork
attempt to re-write the plots of Chosen Ones, dystopian
governments, and self-actualizing hero tropes common to Western
literature, where the quest for “the meaning of life” is often
seeking a single endpoint, an origin. Singh’s characters wish only
to know for the sake of knowing. Life isn’t defined by linear time,
it is the richness of experience."— Aerogram "Singh’s compassionate
imagination and storytelling talents are here clearly on display."—
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Intergalactic Medicine Show "Exhibiting Ursula
K. Le Guin’s prescription for hard times, the voice of this
visionary writer explores alternative ways to live and offers hope,
joining other 'realists of a larger reality.' The takeaway from
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories is: We are all story. Vandana
Singh underscores the ultimate point that stories make the world
and the universe has a place for all of them."— Lanie Tankard,
Woven Tale Press "A delicate touch and passionately humanist
sensibilities sweep through this magnificent collection, which
ranges from the near future of our world to eras far away in space
and time. Highlights include “With Fate Conspire,” in which Gargi,
taken from slum life because of her ability to use a device which
lets her look through time, has more power to influence history
than the scientists around her suspect; “Somadeva: A Sky River
Sutra,” about an 11th-century Indian poet who has become the
companion of a spacefaring folklorist; and “Ambiguity Machines: An
Examination,” a story in the form of a test that pushes the limits
of narrative by trying to define what is not possible rather than
what is. The short piece “Indra’s Web” is more interested in
depicting its solar-powered utopia than in plot or
characterization, but in general this collection is full of risky
experiments that turn out beautifully: colorful, emotionally
resonant, and consistently entertaining. Refreshingly for this
flavor of SF, the protagonists are often bright, passionate women
in middle life, driven by some kind of art or science or cause and
in no way defined by their relationships with men. Those not
familiar with physicist and SF author Singh (Younguncle Comes to
Town) will find this a perfect introduction to her work.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) "In 'Wake Rider,' a young
woman faces death in different forms as she also contemplates the
possibilities of her life. In 'Oblivion: A Journey,' a long-held
need for revenge keeps the protagonist striving for life beyond
death until the realization sets in that mortality may be the only
relief. The heroine of 'Requiem' travels to Alaska a year after her
aunt’s disappearance, seeking answers. All of the stories here
feature characters who are trying to discover the nature of their
existence and how their lives connect others. VERDICT Rising star
Singh draws on her Indian roots and physics background to bring her
first North American collection to readers. Admirers of literary sf
will want to read this."— Library Journal "The best science fiction
requires a protagonist who normalizes the fantastic to tell their
story. Vandana Singh’s Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
achieves this and more, with a bold collection of stories about
fate, worth, and inner magic. . . . From plot to setting to payoff,
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories is a marked achievement in
science fiction."— Foreword Reviews
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