Winner of the Bismoy Award of New Voice 2023, Soham Guha presents works previously published in various anthologies and magazines—Mohs 5.5: Megastructures, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume II, Meteotopia, Ecocenic: Southern Flows, Desh, Kishore Bharati, and Kalpabiswa, among others—collected in a single volume for the first time. These fifteen stories, ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and horror, encompass elements, cultural context, history, and people of the subcontinent. While “Ascension” asks about the role of casteism in a tidally locked secondary world, “The Elevator Era” discusses the state of stark economic disparity in a devastated world through the eyes of two terracotta artists. “Mare Tranqualatalis” explores the role of indigenous honey collectors of the Sundarbans in a bee-less world where rising sea levels have given rise to sentient threats–both men and abominable. “Children Between Lines” asks what happens to freedom and dissent in a totalitarian world. “The Old Age Home at the End of the Universe” explores what happens to old parents when the world dies. Together, these stories promise action, adventure, humor, love and hate, disparity and salvation, redemption and revenge, and everything in between.