Comment by tomhow

4 days ago

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19 comments

tomhow

Bookmarked to read tonight, thanks for this -- the site is gorgeous.

there's limited mention of satyajit ray and his feud with spielberg a la Aliens. would have been fun to read about it-- https://harpercollins.co.in/product/embark-on-an-intergalact...

Seems like it's the first article of this magazine. I'd be excited to see what else they work on but I don't see any links to an rss feed :(

sparshselim 4 days ago

here's a list of future articles we are looking to commission btw: https://altermag.com/pitch-us
mnsh 3 days ago
Hi @culi, Quick update, our RSS feed is now live :3 Subscribe here: https://altermag.com/rss.xml
- culi 3 days ago
  
  Wow, that's awesome! Thanks for getting back on this and thanks for the awesome work

What a beautiful site.

Very interesting visual effect in the first sections of the article

What a beautifully designed and insightful piece!

it wouldn't be a thread about India without a massive brigading / bot campaign!

Heyo, Great article. Gautam Bhatia is a great science fiction writer himself.

Gorgeous essay. Less a story and more a museum tour of Indian Sci-Fi. Enjoyed it!

All the hard work put into this piece really shows! It’s just fascinating.

Loved the article!

this looks like India's answer to Works In Progress

adityaathalye 4 days ago

They reference Works in Progress in their "pitch us" page: https://altermag.com/pitch-us
Though I wouldn't say "India's answer to..." that's just lazy hyperbole. Give the magazine's makers credit, not some arbitrary national identity.
Works In Progress is a Stripe production. Alter Magazine is a production by a parent company "Alt Carbon". That's the similarity.

what an enlightening and inspiring deep-dive that celebrates the bold emergence and evolution of Indian science fiction.

Should we not start with Ramayana and Mahabartham? Although they are religious texts they had a lot of science fiction storylines.