ISBN: 1933500263
Author: Vandana Singh
Language: English
Publisher: Aqueduct Press; First edition (December 15, 2008)
Pages: 158
Category: Humanities
Subcategory: Other
Rating: 4.2
Votes: 171
Size Fb2: 1741 kb
Size ePub: 1972 kb
Size Djvu: 1731 kb
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Distances is fascinating far-future science fiction, set in a desert city. Distances : Volume 23 in the Conversation Pieces Series.
Distances : Volume 23 in the Conversation Pieces Series.
Vandana Singh is an Indian science fiction writer. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Earth Science at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. Ambiguity Machines and other stories (. ISBN 9781618731432) includes previously unpublished "Requiem" (March 2018).
Distances: A Novella (Conversation Pieces Vol. 23). By Vandana Singh. Tags: Started reading: 25th October 2009. Finished reading: 28th October 2009.
Series: Conversation Pieces (Book 8. The remainder of the book is taken up by two of Nisi Shawl's essays Beautiful Strangers: Transracial Writing for the Sincere and Appropriate Cultural Appropriation, and also an excerpt from her novel, The Blazing World. Nevertheless, it provides insight into an often-overlooked aspect of the writing process, one of special resonance to those who seek to write science fiction and fantasy, and does so in a clear and concise manner.
Volume 23 is titled "Vivi's Adventure". I Will Surpass You. 0210. Plan to Escape from the Kingdom of Sand. Miss Goldenweek did not eat a Devil Fruit and is rather a powerful hypnotist
Vandana Singh is an Indian science fiction writer Vandana Singh isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but she does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from her feed. True Journey is Return: A Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. She currently works at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. Vandana Singh isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but she does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from her feed. It is difficult to put into words what I am feeling at this moment, at the death of a great writer and a great human being.
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Conversation Pieces A Small Paperback Series from Aqueduct Press 1. .A Novella by Vandana Singh. Volume 8. Writing the Other®. A Practical Approach. The Grand Conversation Essays by L. Timmel Duchamp 2. With Her Body Short Fiction by Nicola Griffith .
Conversation Pieces, Vol. 3. Release year: 2018. Songs: 24. Artists: Korin Hancherlian-Amos. Korin Hancherlian-Amos, Emily Olson & Stefan Koch.
Winner of the 2008 Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award
Honor List for 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award
Distances is fascinating far-future science fiction, set in a desert city. For Anasuya, mathematics was experiential, a sixth sense that bared before her the harmonies, natural and artificial, that formed the sub-text of the world. So when mathematicians from the planet Tirana, 18-light-years-distant, ask Anasuya's help in solving a series of equations, she finds the new geometrical space they present her with intriguing. But as she explores the new space, she soon comes to suspect that it represents an actual physical system, and that the equations she is being asked to solve have a significance the Tiranis are concealing.
Reviews
"...Individual sections illuminate and provide a rounded backdrop to the whole, until by the end of this finely layered novella I felt as though I had met a fully formed human being—not to mention a number of fascinating characters—and all with a mathematical conundrum of epic proportions with dire import for the cultures of two planets." (read the whole review) — Bob Blough, Tangent Online July 8, 2009
"… perhaps the most satisfying thing about Distances is how irreducible it feels, how Singh mixes mathematical, artistic and sociocultural speculation in a way that feels holistic precisely because it is aware of where those different domains intersect and interact.." — Niall Harrison, Torque Control
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