5-Fantasy Fiction Books In India

Five Fantasy Fiction Books In India

 Fantasy Fiction is the genre which is highly recommended and covered by Indian writers and some of them lead you to the new  imaginary world, which gives you goosebumps just by looking in that creative world. 

1. EMPIRE OF SAND

A  woman confronts the evil at the source of a powerful empire in this fantasy debut that draws from the history and culture of India's Mughal Empire.

Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of the governor of Irinah in the Ambhan Empire and an Amrithi woman, a member of a feared and despised race of nomads descended from spirits. She lives a sheltered and privileged existence despite her ongoing conflict with her stepmother, until she performs an unwitting act of magic. That draws the attention of the Maha, the apparently immortal and infinitely cruel man who founded the empire, and his worshipful disciples, the mystics. They coerce Mehr into marrying Amun, their Amrithi mystic. Although the other mystics loathe the Amrithi and Amun in particular, they need an Amrithi couple to dance the Rite of the Bound, a magical act that warps the dreams of the sleeping Gods to fulfill the prayers of the mystics, maintaining and expanding the empire, and extending the Maha’s life. Is there any way for these two to escape the vows that bind them and find their own way toward freedom, love, and the possibility of honoring their own traditions? One must hope that this book is a harbinger of a coming flood of other fantasies that draw on traditions and cultures outside the confines of Northern Europe. Certainly, a post-colonial narrative in which a minority is both exploited and forced to assimilate has painful relevance in our own world and time. And there is something undoubtedly refreshing about a form of magic that is expressed in gesture instead of words. Those accustomed to the usual run of epic fantasy will find familiar elements: an obviously evil villain set against a heroine who has an unpleasant stepmother and who, despite being the chosen one, is struggling against overwhelming odds. But Suri’s deft and textured characterization breathes new life into these elements; she even takes a tired and often cloying trope—the triumph of the power of love—and makes it seem genuine, painful, and beautiful.

A very strong start for a new voice.

2. The star Touched Queen

In the kingdom of Bharata, horoscopes mean a great deal. The story the stars tell of your life is an immutable truth that will govern your interaction with the world. 

But Mayavati's horoscope is terrifying: It declares her to be married to death and destruction, such that her father's wives shun and blame her for every misfortune. With war looming at Bharata's borders, Maya's ill-starred horoscope casts an increasing shadow; though she'd rather live a quiet, retired life of the mind, a politically expedient marriage seems like the only thing that can save her kingdom.

Dire circumstances lead to her marrying Amar of Akaran — a mysterious man from a mysterious kingdom

The sentence-level beauty of this book often stunned me: There's a smooth, understated loveliness to the writing that kept catching me off guard. In Chokshi's prose, voices have substance and texture while light has color and flavor; never have I wanted to munch on books so much as after reading "The archives were cut like honeycombs and golden light clung to them, dousing every tome, painting, treatise and poem the soft gold of ghee freshly skimmed from boiling butter."Tale-telling is very much at the core of this book, and people are often being asked to make narrative decisions about themselves and others. Your horoscope's words may be cast in stone, but how do you interpret them? Given the choice between two equally terrible outcomes, how will you determine which is best? Over and over, The Star-Touched Queen raises questions about who and how to trust, how and why to act, and if I wasn't always satisfied by the answers, I nevertheless appreciated the exercise.

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3. The Devourers

The Devourers is a book about werewolves in India. Some of it is set in the present, and some of it is set during the Mughal era, specifically in the 1640s, around the time the Taj Mahal was about halfway done.

The Devourers does contain a mix of styles, reflecting the different time periods and the characters’ different personalities. The werewolves favour comically grandiloquent speech patterns and word choices, which befit both their venerable age (the oldest and most pretentious among them was became a werewolf in Ancient Greece) and the arrogance anyone would probably develop if they were an entire planet’s unrivalled apex predator. The humans are more straightforward and no-nonsense, and Cyrah, in particular, knows exactly what to say to deflate a werewolf who is waxing obnoxiously about the werewolf code or some horrific ritual or other.

On a lighter note, this book also include one of the most satisfying, beautiful and complex stories of platonic love (between Cyrah and Gévaudan) I’ve ever come across in a novel, as well as some of the best passages describing (queer) desire (between Alok and the stranger).

4. Pashmina 

Pashmina is a graphic novel about an Indian American high school girl who wants to know more about her family history. It contains elements of fantasy, in particular a magical scarf. Violence is limited to one historical incident: a riot at a factory. There's no swearing, sex, or substance use.

At the start of PASHMINA, Priyanka Das is at odds with her overprotective mother, who refuses to tell her daughter why and how she left India years ago. One night, Pri finds a mysterious chest that contains a magical scarf, one that carries her away to a colorful fantasy version of her mother's birthplace. When Pri wins a cartooning contest, she uses the prize money to buy plane tickets to India, where she meets her aunt and begins to understand more about herself and what it means to be Indian American.

Funny, wise, and moving, Pashmina will appeal to readers curious to learn more about their families and their traditions.

5.  The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery

the Egyptian-American hero of this richly plotted literary thriller, is a peon in a huge corporation in near-future New York. His job is to monitor his powerful computer as it sorts through the inventory of a worldwide archive of mundane objects; at the same time, the machine monitors him to make sure he devotes his full attention to its mindless, mysterious task.

Murugan is the real gem here; as he explains his theories about Ross to Antar, it's hard to determine whether he's crazy or brilliant or both. Like Pynchon, Ghosh (The Circle of Reason; The Shadow Lines) creates a world in which conspiracies, big conspiracies, lurk everywhere--and the people who stagger into the complex plot known as History are inevitably swallowed whole Author tour.