Carl Brandon Society blog

Weblog of the Carl Brandon Society, dedicated to improving the visibility of people of colour in the speculative genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, etc. (moderated jointly by CBS Steering Committee members).

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Amardeep Singh on Debjani Sengupta and early Bengali science fiction

From Amardeep Singh's blog, a post on early Bengali science fiction.

It seems a little hard to imagine people writing about electric doorbells and burglar alarms in the 1880s in Calcutta, but there you have it. (Doorbells were actually invented in 1830, so maybe it's not that shocking.)

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