A01=Radhika Singh
Author_Radhika Singh
Category=FHP
Category=FLQ
empire
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extraterrestrial
family
farmer
forthcoming
future
India
New York
plant
Punjabi
Queens
queer
resistance
revolution
technology
war
Product details
- ISBN 9781945335662
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Common Notions
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A speculative novel of love and revolution set in a sci-fi present. Roma has a steady job, a mortgage, and a surrogate family in Queens. But as she moves through her daily routines, the powerful Empire that rules her world bares its teeth elsewhere–crushing freedom movements across the planet, including the Punjabi farmers’ uprising where her younger brother struggles on the frontlines. Roma’s life is upended when her older brother entrusts her with a strange gift: an ordinary-looking plant that manifests as a sophisticated bioengineered technology. The ‘cell’ opens a portal for an extraterrestrial spirit-body bearing news of a liberated future–and the potential to hack AI warfare–propelling Roma and her family into the core of a rising resistance. As present and prophecy converge, Roma grapples with her troubled faith, ruminating on mystic poetics and anticolonial legacies while yearning for a bewitching woman whose heart will only ever belong to the revolution.
Radhika Singh is a writer and editor living in Queens, New York. Her fiction speculates on the presence of magic in this world, the connection to spirit and consciousness, and the power of the people to organize for collective liberation. Her novel Weirdly Tuned Antennae, winner of the 2025 Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest, is forthcoming from FC2 Press; an excerpt was featured in the 2024 Genre issue of The Markaz Review. Her comic Leila Khaled & the Struggle for Liberation, created in collaboration with illustrator Samita Chatterjee, appeared in the 2024 Trade/ Trade Off issue of Comixense magazine. For more information visit: rhsingh.work.
