Reviews

Runaway Cyclone by Jagadish Chandra Bose

kat_smith24's review against another edition

4.0

I read an English translation (http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/runaway-cyclone/). Quick and funny!

obsession_beats_desolation's review against another edition

5.0

পড়া শুরু করার আগে চিন্তা করিনাই যে বাংলা সাহিত্যের প্রথম বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী একটা হাসির গল্প হবে। মজার ছিল।

ederwin's review

3.0

Funny and very short story about the amazing power of hair oil. Interesting mainly because it is one of the first SF stories written in the Bangla language, in 1896.

Still relevant today for these lines about fake news:

Now it is certain that scientific knowledge is completely false.

Another daily published the following: If science is false then why should the taxpayers be burdened by the totally unreliable Meteorological department?

An English translation of the 1921 revised version is here:
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/runaway-cyclone/