Apsara Engine
Bishakh Kumar Som
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
3.83
· 6 ratings · 248 pages · Published: 14 Apr 2020
The eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara Engine are a subtle intervention into everyday reality. A woman drowns herself in a past affair, a tourist chases another guest into an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary academic researches postcolonial cartography. Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old mythologies, these comics delve into strange architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak.
Painted in rich, sepia-toned watercolors, Apsara Engine is trans illustrator Bishakh Som's highly anticipated debut work of fiction. Showcasing a series of fraught, darkly humorous, and seemingly alien worlds—which ring all too familiar—Som captures the weight of twenty-first-century life as we hurl ourselves forward into the unknown.
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- fantasy 4
- lgbtq+ 3
- trans mc 3
- protagonists of colour 2
- magical realism 2
- literary fiction 1
- low fantasy 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- comic 3
- anthology 1
- adult fiction 1
- content warnings
- mental illness 1