Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities
About this ebook
In twenty-five exhilarating stories, Manjula Padmanabhan brings her trademark twist to familiar reality, dreaming up inventive futures and capturing today's world with equal flair.
From bejewelled party guests suddenly stripped naked to a teenager who steals time, from mosquitoes that infect people with Gandhian pacifism to a dystopia where everyone breathes canned air, this remarkable collection poses urgent questions: what does it mean to live in a society, and this one in particular? Where are we headed, and do we even want to get there?
At once funny, provocative and profound, Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities is science fiction served up with a dab of ghee and a sprinkling of dark matter that will hold you captive till the very last page.
About the author
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Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer, artist, cartoonist and playwright. She grew up away from India, returning as a teenager, and now lives in the US, with a part-time home in New Delhi.
Padmanabhan is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including her travel-memoir Getting There and the first two of a science fiction trilogy, Escape and The Island of Lost Girls. Her play Harvest won the 1997 Onassis Prize for Theatre in Greece. She has published more than twenty illustrated books for children as author-artist, including Unprincess!, Mouse Attack, I Am Different and Mama, What is The Night?. Her female comic strip character SUKI has appeared in mass circulation newspapers such as the Sunday Observer, Pioneer and BusinessLine.
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