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Shiva Kumar

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Born

in New Delhi, India

Website

https://www.shivakumarauthor.com

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Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction, History

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August 2018

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Growing up in a traditional Tamil family, the epics, mythologies, and fables of Hindu life surrounded Shiva like the humid dawn of a steamy Madras day. In boarding school, the lonely ten-year-old boy discovered his love for mythology in a dusty old library when he came upon a 26-volume encyclopedia of world mythologies which he promptly devoured from A-Z. In the mid 70’s the teenager gorged on science fiction and fantasy from J.R.R. Tolkien, Burroughs, Ursula LeGuin, Robert Silverberg, Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony and Frank Herbert.
But it took another four decades before Shiva decided to revisit the epics of Hindu mythology from a sci-fi fantasy perspective. ‘An Awakening’ is the first book of a trilogy entitled ‘The Lanka Chronicles’ that e ...more

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The Lanka Chronicles

I am very excited to introduce a project near and dear to me that I have been working on since 2015. 'The Lanka Chronicles' is my reimagining of The Ramayana in a futuristic 23rd century science-fiction/fantasy setting.

A tormented and soul weary Dharma, leader of the Federation of Indian Planets receives a secret message from a cloaked planet. On board Maya 1, the first sentient starship, Dharma s Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 19, 2021 13:11 • Tags: diverse, epic, fantasy, mythology, science-fiction, south-asian

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	An awakening, (book 1 of the Lanka Chronicles) 4.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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