Want to dip your toes into sci-fi? Or dive deep into the genre? This list is for you.

An engaging sci-fi comic that’s well worth the money spent and time invested, for more reason than just that it’s from Indian creators.

A book for robots who question their programming, Autonomous is an intelligent thriller with patent pirates, biohackers, sentient robots and questions about freedom, free will, and gender.

SF writer par excellence. Editor beyond compare. The most contentious man on the planet. The fox in the SF hen coop.

A review of Kumar L’s novel of first contact, Earth to Centauri: The First Journey.

For a book admired by H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf & Jorge Luis Borges, one that influenced Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Bruce Sterling, and which first spoke of Dyson Spheres, Star Maker remains relatively unknown.

In which we talk about his award-winning Numbercaste, big data, credit scores, Sri Lankan sci-fi, Commonwealth Empire, his alternative history trilogy, ‘crafting one’s own Iron Throne’, and more.

Had enough of big-budget extravaganzas where it looks like they spent a lot of money on a lot of things …

An overview of a book for anyone interested in the idea of Time and Time Travel – James Gleick’s Time Travel: A History, a book that’s bigger on the inside.

A look at some interesting words coined in works of science fiction (that need to be used more!)

And as with many classics, so it is with 2001: A Space Odyssey, that the behind-the-scenes stories are equally fascinating.

“History does not reveal its alternatives”. Thankfully, we have alternate histories. Here’s just some of them.

An overview of Infomocracy, the sci-fi political thriller about the future of democracy in an age of Information; with an exclusive Q&A with its author, Malka Older.

A brief history of Stephen Hawking and his love of sci-fi & pop culture including the one bit of his work he wished science fiction writers would use (they haven’t, yet).

Here then, are just some works from Indian women writers whose SF you should definitely be reading – if you haven’t already that is!