Vandana Singh

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| birth_place = New Delhi, India

| occupation = Author, Particle physics professor

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| period = 2000s–present

| genre = Fantasy, Science fiction, Children's Literature

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| notableworks = "Delhi", "The Wife", Younguncle Comes to Town

| website = {{URL|vandana-writes.com}}

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Vandana Singh is an Indian science fiction writer and physicist. She is a Professor of Physics and Environment at the Department of Environment, Society and Sustainability at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.[https://www.framingham.edu/academics/colleges/science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics/physics-and-earth-science/faculty/index Framingham State Physics and Earth Science Faculty][https://www.framingham.edu/about-fsu/spotlights/vandana-singh Spotlights, Vandana Singh] Singh also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

Works

=Short fiction=

Ambiguity Machines and other stories ({{ISBN|9781618731432}}) includes previously unpublished "Requiem" (March 2018)
The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet and other stories ({{ISBN|9788189884048}}) includes two previously unpublished stories: "Conservation Laws" and "Infinities" (March 2009)
"The Room on the Roof" in the anthology Polyphony (September 2002)
"The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet" in the anthology Trampoline ({{ISBN|9781931520041|}}) (August 2003)
"The Wife" in the anthology Polyphony (Volume 3)

:Collected in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (17)

"Three Tales from Sky River: Myths for a Starfaring Age" in Strange Horizons (2004)

:honorable mention in Year's Best Science Fiction (22) and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18)

"Delhi" in the anthology So Long Been Dreaming (May 2004)

:collected in Year's Best Science Fiction (22)

"Thirst" in The 3rd Alternative (Winter 2004)

:Longlisted for the British Fantasy Award

:Honorable mention for Year's Best Science Fiction (22) and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18)

:Collected in the anthology The Inner Line: Stories by Indian Women

"The Tetrahedron" in Internova (2005)

:Shortlisted for the Carl Brandon Parallax Award

:Honorable mention in Year's Best Science Fiction (23)

"The Sign in the Window" in the chapbook series Rabid Transit (May 2005)
"Hunger" in the anthology Interfictions (April 2007)
"Life-pod" in Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction (August 2007)
"Of Love and Other Monsters," a novella published in the Aqueduct Press's Conversation Pieces Series (October 2007)
"Oblivion: A Journey" in the anthology Clockwork Phoenix (Summer 2008)

:collected in Year's Best SF 14

=Children's fiction=

Younguncle Comes to Town (March 2004)
Younguncle in the Himalayas

=Poetry=

"A Portrait of the Artist" in Strange Horizons (2003)

:2nd place in 2004 Rhysling Prize for speculative poetry (long poem category)

"Syllables of Old Lore" in the anthology Mythic (2006)
"The Choices of Leaves" in the anthology Mythic (2006)

References

Sources

{{cite news |title=Younguncle comes to town |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/01/17/stories/2005011700510200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102071547/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/01/17/stories/2005011700510200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-11-02 |work=The Hindu |date=2005-01-07 |access-date=2008-05-15 }}
{{cite news |title=First Look: Literature |url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main36.asp?filename=hub151207firstlook_literature.asp |work=Tehelka |date=2007-12-15 |access-date=2008-05-15 }}
{{cite news |title=In the Himalayas |url=http://www.hindu.com/yw/2005/08/26/stories/2005082600090800.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108075436/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2005/08/26/stories/2005082600090800.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2005-11-08 |date=2005-08-26 |work=The Hindu |access-date=2008-05-15 }}
{{cite news |title=Fantasy seeker |url=http://www.hindu.com/mag/2005/02/13/stories/2005021300600500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050216092243/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2005/02/13/stories/2005021300600500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2005-02-16 |date=2005-02-13 |work=The Hindu |access-date=2008-05-15 }}
{{cite news |title=Normal, boring |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080102/jsp/telekids/story_8732025.jsp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203212333/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080102/jsp/telekids/story_8732025.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 February 2013 |work=The Telegraph |date=2008-01-02 |access-date=2008-05-15 }}
{{cite news |title=In cyber world |url=http://www.hindu.com/yw/2008/02/22/stories/2008022250690600.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227133849/http://www.hindu.com/yw/2008/02/22/stories/2008022250690600.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-02-27 |date=2008-02-22 |work=The Hindu |access-date=2008-05-15 }}
{{cite news|title=Notes on Indian Science Fiction: The Parallel Worlds of Jayant Narlikar and Vandana Singh |url=http://mithilareview.com/shah_05_16/ |work=Mithila Review |date=2016-05-04 |access-date=2016-11-20}}

External links

[http://vandana-writes.com/ Official Website]
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[http://www.bookslut.com/features/2006_08_009677.php An Interview with Vandana Singh by Geoffrey H. Goodwin at Bookslut]

Category:Indian children's writers

Category:Indian fantasy writers

Category:Indian science fiction writers

Category:Indian women children's writers

Category:Living people

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Women science fiction and fantasy writers

Category:Indian women novelists

Category:Women writers from Delhi

Category:Novelists from Delhi

Category:21st-century Indian women writers

Category:21st-century Indian novelists