Sachdeva, Anjali
Entry updated 5 December 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Pleiades" in Gulf Coast for Summer/Fall 2010, the Near Future tale of an Eugenics experiment gone poignantly wrong, which was assembled in her first book, All the Names They Used for God (coll 2018). Other stories in this volume, typically climaxing with a Slingshot Ending pointing to but not reaching Transcendence, include "Manus" (Winter 2015 the Literary Review), which comes close to body-horror in its depiction of human subjection to the Alien civilization that has conquered the planet; and "The World at Night" (Winter 2016/2017 Iowa Review), in which an Underground cavern seems to open into Faerie [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. In Arbitrium (2022 ebook), the virus responsible for a new Pandemic turns out to be something like a Hive Mind, seemingly (but perhaps deceptively) open to negotiate a modus vivendi. Sachdeva's more routine nonfantastic stories are populous and extremely expert, perhaps almost excessively so; her explorations into Fantastika lead her casts into more dangerous territory. [JC]
Anjali Sachdeva
born Pennsylvania.
works
collections and stories
- All the Names They Used for God (New York: Random House/Spiegel and Grau, 2018) [coll: hb/Rachel Ake]
- Arbitrium (New York: Tor, 2022) [novelette: ebook: na/Sara Wong]
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