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Only Connect: short fiction about Technology and Us
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ONLY CONNECT!: SHORT FICTION ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND US
FROM THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AND AUSTRALIA
by Editors: Meenakshi Bharat & Sharon Rundle
Endorsement on back cover by Tabish Khair.
“We live in a world where battles are fought in cyberspace, relationships are forged through voice-over-IP, and declarations of love are made through speedy text messages. Pertinently then, the stories in Only Connect weigh the deep impact of technology on our lives, relationships, and the ways in which we perceive each other and ourselves.
While Meenakshi Bharat’s ‘B Wid U Soon’ shows how, despite the distance between them, technology helps a couple share the birth of their baby, Janhavi Acharekar’s ‘Sneha, 25’ highlights the hoax of digital ties as a young girl is conned by a cyber-lover. The sinister face of technology is alarmingly demonstrated by Malik Sajad’s graphic tale, ‘Facebooked’, Chandani Lokugé’s ‘Trial by Media’, and Kiran Nagarkar’s ‘The Race for Arms’. Technology changes the language we speak, as dramatized in Neelum Saran Gour’s ‘A Software Sonata’. It colours our perception of lived experience, as shown by Sharon Rundle in ‘Fugue for Guinea Pigs’. And, in fact, technology even irrevocably changes the way we connect with art as Yasmine Gooneratne describes in ‘Barry Meets His Muse’.
A collection of twenty riveting stories, Only Connect traces this brave new world we have come to inherit.”
Janhavi Acharekar, Manisha Jolie Amin, Sunil Badami, Meenakshi Bharat, Devika Brendon, Susanne Gervay, Roanna Gonsalves, Yasmine Gooneratne, Anita Heiss, Bem Le Hunte, Anu Kumar, Chandani Lokugé, Julia Mackay-Koelen, Sophie Masson, Kiran Nagarkar, Felicity Pulman, Sharon Rundle, Malik Sajad, Sujata Sankranti, Neelum Saran Gourr, Annie Zaidi
Meenakshi Bharat, University of Delhi, is a writer, translator, reviewer and critic. Some of her published books are: The Ultimate Colony: The Child in Postcolonial Fiction; Rushdie the Novelist; and two volumes of Indo-Australian short fiction entitled Fear Factor: Terror Incognito and Alien Shores: Tales of Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
Sharon Rundle is Chair of the University of Technology Sydney Writers’ Alumni; has served on the Board of Directors of the NSW Writers’ Centre; and is a founding member of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators. She coedited Alien Shores and Fear Factor.
“Only Connect!” Reviews in:
My City Book Reviews, New Delhi, Saturday Nov 1, 2014
Indian Link
Sydney Morning Herald
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
UTS Newsroom review of Only Connect,
Sunday Guardian Indian Edition
Telegraph India
Two Circles
Between The Lines Book Review
A mention of “Only Connect!” in The Hindu
and Business Standard
Sydney Launch of “Only Connect!” was covered by Paul McKenzie at the Indian Telegraph, May 2014, Page 36.
Australian edition of Only Connect: Short fiction about Technology and Us (April, 2014) by Brass Monkey Books
Our previous anthologies are: Alien Shores
Alien Shores launch with slide show.
and Fear Factor Terror Incognito
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