| Sumario: | This article examines four sf novels in English by Indian writers who portray future Indias of nuclear detonations, fascist governments, zombie apocalypses, and futuristic wars. It frames these extrapolations as responses to specific historical events and draws linkages between the contemporary material realities of a developing India and the themes of these dystopian narratives. I focus on the socio-political aspects of these speculations, identifying the epistemological underpinnings of otherness in them and analyzing how the socio-economic apparatuses erected around the societies of tomorrow are direct manifestations of how these writers reinterpret, rework, and address problems in the India of today.
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