The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Volume 3 by Rajesh Kumar

Author:Rajesh Kumar
Format: epub

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[4] Lavanya and Catherine da Vinci are fictional characters. All the other film personalities mentioned in this story are real people. —Translator

[5] S.P. Adithanar (1905-81) was a Tamil politician and newspaperman whose pre-Independence publications popularized a simpler, less formal register of writing.

OPERATION NOVA

TAMILMAGAN

Science fiction has been published in Chennai since at least as far back as 1906, with the appearance in the English-language Indian Ladies’ Magazine of Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain’s “Sultana’s Dream”. The story inspired at least one Tamil-language novel, which, like Hussain’s work, was set in a solar-powered feminist utopia on an alien planet. In later decades, the weekly magazine Anandha Vikatan emerged as one of the most important venues for the genre. In the 1970s, it serialized Sujatha’s En Iniya Enthira (“My Dear Robot”), a dystopian novel set in 2021, in which an Indian dictator controls the population by means of a set of unique identifier numbers linked to biometric data stored in a master computer.

Tamilmagan, who has worked as a staff writer on literature and politics for Anandha Vikatan since 2002, was born in Thiruvallur, and holds a degree in physics. He has written fifteen books, ranging from historical fiction to murder mysteries. Among them are two works of science fiction: a collection of short stories called Amilam Devadhaigal (“Acid Angels”), and Operation Nova, which first appeared serialized in the magazine.

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