Ashok K. Banker
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Ashok K. Banker

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Bram Stoker and CWA–nominated and Utopiales Nantes Award winning author Ashok Banker, a pioneer of Indian science fiction, has been writing and publishing since the 1970s. Now, for the first time, the extraordinary span of his speculative fiction oeuvre is available to readers everywhere. Vividly imagined. Culturally authentic. Boldly visionary. Indian SF is a genre-defining collection of science fiction novels, novellas, and short stories that reimagine the future through the prism of India’s histories, mythologies, and sociopolitical realities. From caste-encoded moon colonies to god-clones, resurrected detectives, and sentient AIs sculpted in divine image, these stories explore the convergence of faith and futurism, memory and machine, ancestry and algorithm. Each work stands alone, but together they form a vast, richly interconnected vision of a future both speculative and deeply rooted in South Asian experience. The Sanskriti Cycle is the first major arc within the Indian SF universe—a gritty, mythic saga centered on Neel Kant, a dead CID inspector brought back by techno-theocratic corporations to investigate the unsolvable. For readers of Black Mirror, The Three-Body Problem, and Descender—with the mythic depth of Indian futurism. Ashok K. Banker is the internationally acclaimed author of over 121 books that have sold over 3 million copies in 36 languages and 72 countries. His hugely successful Ramayana Series is credited with having launched the genre of English-language mythological retellings and influenced an entire generation of authors. He is credited with being the author of India's first crime novels in English, first fantasy series in English, first ebooks, and several other firsts. As a journalist, he broke front-page news stories for the Times of India, The Week and Outlook. As a screenwriter, he created and wrote India’s First TV Series in English, and co-created and co-wrote Malaysia’s First TV Series in English, as well as several other hit comedy, police procedural, and historical shows. Born in Mumbai, Ashok is of Irish-Portuguese-Sri Lankan-South Indian parentage, and lives in Southern California.
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