![]() 46).Īutomation, however, decidedly does not mean utopia. Society is now post-labour: “Military labor was specialized or droned, food production was lab driven, and industrial production was entirely automated” (p. ![]() ![]() By the time that the events of Cyber Mage (2022) come to pass, humans have done to themselves what Matteras planned to do to them: in a world ravaged by climate catastrophe (called the “Disintegration Era”), nation-states have collapsed, giving way to AI-administered, corporate-controlled slices of territory. ![]() Timely intervention from members of the Khan Rahman clan saved the city of Dhaka from inundation-but only, it seems, for a while. In Djinn City (2017), Hossain introduced us to the fractious world of the djinns, their fraught relations with human beings, and the belligerent Matteras’s plans to end the long-standing djinn “policy of seclusion” by flooding the Bay of Bengal. Hossain always comes as a breath of fresh air. Shenoy memorably labelled such work “Biryani Sauce”), a new work by Bangladeshi writer Saad Z. In a world in which the term “South Asian speculative fiction” too often appears to be a placeholder for a mishmash of Bollywood tropes and SparkNote versions of ancient epics (the Indian critic T. ![]()
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