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Vandana Singh

Summary

Vandana Singh is an Indian science fiction writer and physicist. She is a Professor of Physics and Environment at the Department of Environment, Society and Sustainability at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.[1][2] Singh also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

Vandana Singh
Singh at a discussion for The British Library in 2021
Singh at a discussion for The British Library in 2021
BornNew Delhi, India
OccupationAuthor, Particle physics professor
Period2000s–present
GenreFantasy, Science fiction, Children's Literature
Notable works"Delhi", "The Wife", Younguncle Comes to Town
Website
vandana-writes.com

Works edit

Short fiction edit

  • Ambiguity Machines and other stories (ISBN 9781618731432) includes previously unpublished "Requiem" (March 2018)
  • The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet and other stories (ISBN 9788189884048) includes two previously unpublished stories: "Conservation Laws" and "Infinities" (March 2009)
  • "The Room on the Roof" in the anthology Polyphony (September 2002)
  • "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet" in the anthology Trampoline (August 2003)
  • "The Wife" in the anthology Polyphony (Volume 3)
Collected in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (17)
  • "Three Tales from Sky River: Myths for a Starfaring Age" in Strange Horizons (2004)
honorable mention in Year's Best Science Fiction (22) and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18)
collected in Year's Best Science Fiction (22)
Longlisted for the British Fantasy Award
Honorable mention for Year's Best Science Fiction (22) and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18)
Collected in the anthology The Inner Line: Stories by Indian Women
  • "The Tetrahedron" in Internova (2005)
Shortlisted for the Carl Brandon Parallax Award
Honorable mention in Year's Best Science Fiction (23)
  • "The Sign in the Window" in the chapbook series Rabid Transit (May 2005)
  • "Hunger" in the anthology Interfictions (April 2007)
  • "Life-pod" in Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction (August 2007)
  • "Of Love and Other Monsters," a novella published in the Aqueduct Press's Conversation Pieces Series (October 2007)
  • "Oblivion: A Journey" in the anthology Clockwork Phoenix (Summer 2008)
collected in Year's Best SF 14

Children's fiction edit

  • Younguncle Comes to Town (March 2004)
  • Younguncle in the Himalayas

Poetry edit

2nd place in 2004 Rhysling Prize for speculative poetry (long poem category)
  • "Syllables of Old Lore" in the anthology Mythic (2006)
  • "The Choices of Leaves" in the anthology Mythic (2006)

References edit

  1. ^ Framingham State Physics and Earth Science Faculty
  2. ^ Spotlights, Vandana Singh

Sources edit

  • "Younguncle comes to town". The Hindu. 7 January 2005. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  • "First Look: Literature". Tehelka. 15 December 2007. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  • "In the Himalayas". The Hindu. 26 August 2005. Archived from the original on 8 November 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  • "Fantasy seeker". The Hindu. 13 February 2005. Archived from the original on 16 February 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  • "Normal, boring". The Telegraph. 2 January 2008. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  • "In cyber world". The Hindu. 22 February 2008. Archived from the original on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  • "Notes on Indian Science Fiction: The Parallel Worlds of Jayant Narlikar and Vandana Singh". Mithila Review. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.

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