Emerging in the 1970s, Punjabi science fiction (SF) is a relatively young addition to the genre’s global history. Over the past five decades, the field has seen sporadic yet noteworthy
contributions, blending original works and translations to enrich Punjabi literature.
In a world that seeks to deny us homes in any present, hopes of any future, and to erase any semblance of our existence in history and keeps us shackled to the colonial baggage that is cis-heteronormativity, one finds that speculative fiction and fantasy lend themselves rather easily to queer stories.