The first English translation of a cult science fiction favorite
by Hemendra Kumar Roy, one of the giants of early Bangla literature,
and other sf stories from the colonial period in India.
Kalpavigyan--science
fiction written to excite Bengali speakers about science, as well as
to persuade them to evolve beyond the limitations of religion, caste,
and class--became popular in the early years of the twentieth
century. Translated into English for the first time, in this
collection you'll discover The Inhumans (1935), Hemendrakumar Roy's
satirical novella about a lost race of Bengali supermen in Uganda.
Also included are Jagadananda Ray's "Voyage to Venus"
(1895), Nanigopal Majumdar's "The Mystery of the Giant"
(1931), and Manoranjan Bhattacharya's "The Martian Purana"
(1931).
