Neon Fish in Dark Water

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145 pages

English language

Published May 25, 2007 by MapinLit, an imprint of Mapin Pub..

ISBN:
978-81-88204-71-4
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OCLC Number:
300637127

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5 stars (2 reviews)

All the stories in this volume are set in the year 2050, in The City. Though they are set in the future, and though science has a role to play in some of them, these are not science fiction stories. Some of the stories are related to each other. This form, stories loosely related to each other and set in the same world, does not yet have a name of its own. The stories tell of some curious characters in The City—extraordinary, solitary individuals—some children who may or may not be solitary, a pair of lovers, a butterfly expert, a painter, a nurse, an ex-hacker, an inspector and a serial killer, a software developer and coder etc.

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reviewed Neon Fish in Dark Water by Aniket Jaaware

Excellent collection

5 stars

These are an excellent set of short stories written by late philosophy professor Aniket Jaaware. The stories are set in the year 2050 in a city called the City. Even though geeky, there aren't science fiction. Jaaware crafts a diverse set of characters in this short collection, offering a wide range of human experiences. The stories are immensely readable; they are open ended with a light touch of humor. At the same time they offer a poignant critique of the negative aspects of large metropolises, more so from the point of view of the marginalized, the destitute, the homeless. What I liked the most about this collection is that characters from previous stories make brief, fleeting appearances in the later stories. I will highly recommend this story collection to anyone with a nerdy side to them.

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