“A most promising and original young writer.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
“Vandana Singh’s radiant protagonist is a planet unto herself.”
—Village Voice
“...individual sections illuminate and provide a rounded backdrop to the whole, until by the end of this finely layered novella I felt as though I had met a fully formed human being—not to mention a number of fascinating characters—and all with a mathematical conundrum of epic proportions with dire import for the cultures of two planets.”
—Bob Blough, Tangent Online
“Singh mixes mathematical, artistic, and sociocultural speculation in a way that feels holistic precisely because it is aware of where those different domains intersect and interact.”
—Niall Harrison, host of Torque Control
“Lovely! What a pleasure this book is ... full of warmth, compassion, affection, high comedy and low.”
—Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses
“Sweeping starscapes and daring cosmology that make Singh a worthy heir to Cordwainer Smith and Arthur C. Clarke.”
—Chris Moriarty, Fantasy & Science Fiction
“...the first writer of Indian origin to make a serious mark in the SF world ... she writes with such a beguiling touch of the strange.”
—Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard