Of Love and Other Monsters

Vandana Singh

Science Fiction

A novella.

At age seventeen, Arun, the narrator of Of Love and Other Monsters, emerges from a fire, his memories and identity vanished with the flames. He finds a refuge and home with Janani and soon discovers his unique ability to sense and manipulate the minds of others around him. Intimately connected yet isolated by this insight, he inhabits a dangerous place outside conventional boundaries: man/woman, mind/body. When someone who shares his ability, Rahul Moghe, arrives on his doorstep, he senses a power beyond any he has known. Janani warns of the grave danger posed by Rahul and sends Arun on his journey, fleeing the one person who may have answers to the mystery of his past...

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2007
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Vandana Singh

Vandana Singh's short fiction has appeared in the Polyphony series, Interfictions, So Long Been Dreaming, Strange Horizons, and The Third Alternative. She has been short-listed for the BSFA and Parallax awards and is the author of the ALA Notable Book for Children, Younguncle Comes to Town (Viking 2006). Her novella Of Love and Other Monsters was Volume 18 in Aqueduct's Conversation Pieces series. Though she was born and raised in India, she now lives in Boston, where she teaches college physics.