Description: "It's hard to say whether Star Warriors of the Modern Raj does a better job of mapping western science fiction histories and theories onto Indian SF, or a better job of mapping histories and theories of Indian science fiction onto western SF - but the reciprocal relationships between these two traditions become fascinating in Khan's hands. Khan brings a new generational as well as a new geographical vision to our understanding of the global and 'possibly sentient' construct of the genre. What is easier still to say is that this valuable study, particularly in its focus on twenty-first century Indian SF in English, is always advanced by lively prose and a thought-provoking conceptualisation scheme that is often no less than breath-taking. In masterly readings, Khan's encyclopedic approach systematically negotiates fraught and provocative conflicts in SF theory as it explores in both Indian and western SF issues - including bright and broken futures, post-colonial hangovers, Islamic and cyber terrorism, competing constructions of gender and cultural identity, representations of class and caste, impacts of environmental degradation, conflicts between science and religion, and the intersecting paradigms of mythology, ideology, and technology - intersections always at the heart of SF." --Brooks Landon, University of Iowa

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