Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities
- Publisher : Hachette India
- Publishing year : June 2025
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9789357316200
- Imprint : Hachette India
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
Rebellious cellphones. Lustful holograms. A tourist vampire with a taste for spicy Indian blood. A conference of galacti ...
Rebellious cellphones. Lustful holograms. A tourist vampire with a taste for spicy Indian blood. A conference of galactic gods.
In twenty-five exhilarating stories, Manjula Padmanabhan brings her trademark twist to familiar reality, dreaming up inventive futures and capturing today's world with equal flair.
From bejewelled party guests suddenly stripped naked to a teenager who steals time, from mosquitoes that infect people with Gandhian pacifism to a dystopia where everyone breathes canned air, this remarkable collection poses urgent questions: what does it mean to live in a society, and this one in particular? Where are we headed, and do we even want to get there?
At once funny, provocative and profound, Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities is science fiction served up with a dab of ghee and a sprinkling of dark matter that will hold you captive till the very last page.
Columns, short stories, novels, plays, a long-running cartoon strip, Suki… Manjula Padmanabhan traverses all these genres with ease. She has illustrated 24 books for children. For Tulika, she has created the popular I am Different! Same and Different, We are different and World Tour Mystery. Manjula grew up in Europe, Southeast Asia and India. She still travels a lot and likes to pretend that she lives everywhere and nowhere at once.
