#Vandana Singh

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Mla Vandana Singh Spoke On Suspension From Bsp Said I Am Innocent Gave Statement About Joining Sp In Azamgarh - बसपा से निलंबन पर बोलीं विधायक वंदना सिंह, बोलीं- मैं बेकसूर, सपा में शामिल होने को लेकर भी दिया बयान

Mla Vandana Singh Spoke On Suspension From Bsp Said I Am Innocent Gave Statement About Joining Sp In Azamgarh – बसपा से निलंबन पर बोलीं विधायक वंदना सिंह, बोलीं- मैं बेकसूर, सपा में शामिल होने को लेकर भी दिया बयान

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[theoutcastrogue]

“Science fiction is potentially the most revolutionary literary mode we have, because at its best it forces us to see what we don’t ordinarily see — it makes the familiar strange, and the strange familiar. The support structures, gantries, and scaffolding that hold up the paradigm that is Omelas might then suddenly become obvious to the eye. What we see, we can question, we can change. And yet science fiction doesn’t always rise to the challenge. Consider our predilection for dystopias, especially in young adult literature. It’s not that dystopias don’t have a role to play, but I find their preponderance troubling. Part of my problem is that an overwhelming number of dystopias are based on the individual pitted against a repressive society — the individual as the Lone Ranger hero, the problem solver, to triumph (or not) at the end of the tale. The trouble with complex problems like social inequality and climate change is that they require masses of people to work together. Where in science fiction are stories about people working in communities, negotiating their differences to engage with an issue? It is so much easier to write a post-apocalyptic dystopia than to imagine how we might work our way through the apocalypse together. Among the few examples that come to mind are two of Ursula K. Le Guin’s novels, The Dispossessed and Always Coming Home, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Pacific Edge. These works aren’t blueprints for action — fiction can’t do that — but they are thought experiments that shake up the imagination, free it from old moorings, and allow us to think differently. [...]

Complex systems like social systems, climate, and weather have features that simple systems lack. The meteorologist Edward Lorenz, who discovered that weather was a chaotic phenomenon, declared poetically that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon could cause a tornado in Texas. Not all complex systems are sensitive to initial conditions, but perhaps it is safe to say that in many of them, a small shift in a key parameter can cause a large-scale change in the system as a whole. In the beginning scene of the epic Ramayana, a king on a hunt misinterprets the rustling of leaves, and commits an error that will have consequences for generations to come. If an epic can turn on the rustle of a leaf, then kings and scribes ignore the humble leaf at their peril. Post-Newtonian science and traditional wisdom both tell is that we are intimately connected, in time and space, to our physical environments and to other beings. If no one thing has supreme importance in the scheme of things, then we must relinquish the idea that some lone hero will save us. In fiction as in life, perhaps, this is the age of a million heroes. 

What then might post-Newtonian science fiction look like? With the participation of writers from around the world, raised in different cultures and climes, including voices we have not heard until recently — Native American writers for example — we are finding multiple answers to that question. We are, I hope, finding pathways out of Omelas.”

— Vandana Singh, Leaving Omelas: Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the Future (2018)

[tam--lin]

In one sense, science fiction can be considered as an exploration of our relationship with the nonhuman universe—from animals, aliens, and others to the physical universe itself, including technology. Most of the rest of literature labors under the absurd delusion that human beings live in a bubble isolated from the rest of nature; with nature reduced to a commodity, it can then be forgotten. Go to any bookstore and browse the fiction shelves, and you will see dramas that are exclusively human. [...] Can science fiction save the world? Certainly not by itself. But it can shine some light upon who we are and where we might end up if we choose this path or that one.

Vandana Singh

[gayiconwaluigi]

I want you to imagine the sheer power Dev Patel would bring to a film adaptation of Younguncle comes to town

[smallbeerpress]

Vandana Singh's Philip K. Dick finalist Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories is one of a dozen books in the latest Storybundle, this one titled Strangers in Strange Lands and dedicated to the memory of the fierce, kind, excellent human being known as Vonda McIntyre. We sold out of Vandana's book at AWP, and someone just hit me up to have her on their podcast, which is testimony to how far-reaching her writing is. If you're not sure about picking up the paperback — now in its second printing — here's an easy way to try the ebook.

[afeministreadingsciencefiction]

Lifepod

The most notable part of this piece to be was how deeply similar the Eavesdropper was to Lilith from Dawn. They are both mothers with a lost son from a life passed, both hybrids of aliens, both betrayers of their own species after agreeing to do some terrible thing for aliens. I wonder if I can bring myself to blame Lilith or the Eavesdropper. Initially my instinct is to feel sympathy for these two compromised women of color. Far from home and powerless I don’t know what decisions I would make. Would I too betray my own species? Would I hybridize myself with the enemy for a tiny amount of freedom? Would I intrude on people’s thoughts and dreams? Would I force the future of my species to commit to coerced sex? In many ways the Eavesdropper is Lilith’s journey outside the humans. They both slowly and chemically bonds with the alien as a kind of first step in a new kind of creature. Lilith however has a justification to hybridize with the Oankali (she wants to get back to Earth) whereas the Eavesdropper never really justifies her choices. They both occupy morally grey area and while we sympathize, neither of them are entirely acceptable characters.

[cosmicvelocity]

What can we make of the relationship between human and machine? If an engineer can dream a machine, can a machine dream an engineer? An artist? A mathematician? An archaeologist? A story? Is the space of ambiguity machines set like a jewel or a braid within the greater expanse of the space of impossible machines? Is it here, in the realm of dream and imagination, that the intelligent machine might at last transcend the ultimate boundary—between machine and non-machine? To take inspiration from human longing, from the organic, syncretic fecundity of nature, the candidate must be willing to consider and enable its own transformation.

Vandana Singh, Ambiguity Machines: An Examination

[theoutcastrogue]

Science fiction itself is an in-between space. Here, anthropology talks to physics, biology talks to art, and humans talk to other beings.

Vandana Singh, Leaving Omelas: Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the Future (2018)

[lesmotsquejauraisaimeecrire]

Il aimait à lui dire qu'elle était irrécupérable, à force de lire ces stupides romans de science-fiction. Mais, de temps à autre, elle avait envie de lui demander sérieusement comment il expliquait ce sentiment qui l'habitait le matin: même la plus familière des choses lui semblait étrange, elle avait - presque - besoin de réapprendre le monde.

“Faim” in “Infinités”; Vandana Singh, Denoël, coll. Lunes d’Encre, 2016, p. 12

[left-handlibrary]

November Book Photo Challenge || Day 1 || Currently Reading

Fresh biscuits, a cup of coffee, and a new book have to be some kind of heaven. After finishing The Paper Managerie by Ken Liu, I had to find another collection of speculative short fiction to fill the gap. Vandana Singh’s collection is published by an imprint of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house.

[smallbeerpress]

Interview with Vandana Singh whose debut North American collection (i.e. Penguin Zubaan published a fabulous collection by her a few years ago) we are publishing in February 2018.

[afeministreadingsciencefiction]

The Woman Who Was A Planet

This week’s reading led me to marinate on how women of color’s voices are often ignored in the medical field. Black women specifically are 3-4 times more likely to die from childbirth than white women. Furthermore, communities of color notoriously stigmatize mental illness and are far less likely to receive help. In “The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet” not only does her husband repeatedly deny her reality, but the story itself is titled “The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet” instead of “The Woman Who Was A Planet”. Despite all the evidence no one believes Kamala, and even in the end she is shamed for taking on her true form. The honesty of women of color is never respected and we’re never allowed to be ourselves. However Kamala claims her freedom in not only ascending at the end, but even sending her inhabitants to colonize her husband. Kamala, and all women of color, are colonized their entire lives to the point of rejecting their own health. Colonizing her husband could be a sort of reparations, a reclaiming of her life and a taking of another. Though personally I think of it as an attempt to free her husband. Even he admits that he envies her as she flies off to her decolonized life as a planet, maybe the inhabitants overtake him because he is unable to accept his own true form as a free planet.

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Read "Ambiguity Machines: An Examination," a sci-fi story by Vandana Sing.

This tale is an unusual take on an engineering exam that explores new concepts in machine design and function. All new machine discoveries must be investigated and classified. This is the story of three such machines and the truth or lie of their existence.

[wellconstructedsentences]

Memory is a strange thing. I haven't changed my sex in eighty three years.

Oblivion: A Journey by Vandana Singh

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As a physical scientist, I recognize and appreciate that it's not just people who have stories to tell, it's atoms and molecules and protons and the landscape and the Earth itself.

--Vandana Singh, interview with Joey Eschrich in Living Tomorrow