Signal Red

by Rimi B. Chatterjee

All's well for Gopal Chandran and his wife Vidura on the sleepy campus of a semi-secret defense lab where Gopal is a valuable scientist, till an old friend, Anuprabha, visits them and starts asking awkward questions. What are the nano-powders produced in the labs actually being used for? And how far are his superiors willing to go to test the success of their inventions? Desperate to find answers that will also help him justify the ethics of his life's work, Gopal stumbles upon some incriminating documents and is soon sucked into a terrifying labyrinth of deceit and corruption. Now Gopal Chandran is on the run . . . but there's nowhere left to run to.

Genres: Science Fiction

292 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2005

About the author

Rimi B. Chatterjee is an author based in Kolkata (earlier Calcutta), India. She has published three novels and one academic history which won the SHARP deLong Prize for History of the Book in 2006, as well as a number of translations and short stories. She has been nominated twice for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award, once for fiction and once for translation. She teaches English at Jadavpur University.

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

While this book was interesting and surprisingly compelling, the kindle edition has a number of weird formatting problems that orphaned occasional lines of text and seemed to jumble the odd paragraph. It seemed to be more prevalent in the latter half of the book and was at times irritating to work through.

I did like it though and will certainly try and read more of this author's work in future.

[Komal]

Good Indian Science Fiction, covering all the social ailments of Indian society while showing the trade-off of morals and freedom for a lavish lifestyle.

[Ruchira Mandal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Compelling, and a little frightening. Left me wanting to know more about the characters' futures.