"Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" is a horror fiction short story by Nibedita Sen.
Sen has described the story as being about "colonialism in academia, monstrous appetites, and oh yes, lesbian cannibals.
"[1] Rather than being presented as a standard narrative, the story is in the form of excerpts from the bibliography of a document detailing the consequences of a British expedition landing on the fictitious Ratnabar Island, in the Andamans.
"Ten Excerpts" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2019,[2] and the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
[3] Tangent Online "appreciated the idea" of the story, emphasizing that it has "important things to say", and noted that the form enabled Sen to incorporate a quantity of narrative that "would probably have otherwise required a full-length novel", but overall found it "scattered and (...) difficult to engage with", with the story's "power [being] somewhat lost" because of the multiple narrative voices.