Chandra Shekhar

Chandra Shekhar came to the US from India to study Artificial Intelligence. After spending 15 years developing technology for self-driving vehicles, facial recognition, and video surveillance, he switched to the less lucrative but more benign career of science journalism, and then to fiction writing. His first novel, MOCK MY WORDS, is a fish-out-of-water story about a literary genius from China who comes to California to teach creative writing. His second novel, UNLIGHT, imagines a planet-wide apocalypse that leaves the earth cold, dark, and lifeless. He is currently working on THIRST FOR POWER, a novel set in India telling the intertwined stories of an idealistic young man, a scheming politician, a romantic professor of English, and an enigmatic social worker, set against a background of political, social, and climate change. Chandra is also a prolific writer of short stories, flash fiction, and humorous verse. An illustrated collection of his shorter works, titled UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, ILLOGICAL EXTREMES, AND OTHER IRONIES OF LIFE, will be published soon.