Posted on May 24, 2008 by samit
Just working/travelling/living. And meeting truly exciting people. Two films and a book and a comics series to write, all due yesterday, and another book and art project to work on, so the idea of MORE typing is killing. But yet again, I resolve to try.
A comic I’ve been hugely excited about working on (because I [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2008 by samit
Date:
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Time:
7:00pm
Location:
Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre
Do come. And bring your friends. There’ll be a short video thingie where I talk about my influences, a quick reading, a discussion with the mighty Nilanjana S. Roy, and drunksdrinks.
Will post about other events when dates and times are confirmed. Calcutta is Jan 22 at Crossword, more [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2007 by samit
Das Fest der Zwerge
This is an anthology of fantasy stories from my German publishers, Piper. One of these stories, The Year of the Ape, starring the Silver Dagger and Kirin, is mine. It’s also in German, and also features a story by (ahem) Ray Bradbury. The theme of the anthology is Christmas/year-end feasts. Available here.
The [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2007 by samit
So, I went to Khan Market for lunch and then sauntered into a bookstore to look at the New Arrivals section and mourn the fact that my book was missing. Having done so, I was greatly surprised to see that the book, while not amongst the New Arrivals, had nevertheless actually arrived and was lurking [...]
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Posted on December 17, 2007 by samit
This is still very tentative, but I believe the wheels are finally moving. Advance copies are here, and so the book should – should – be out within a week. None of this is confirmed, but possibly this weekend in Delhi and early next week for the rest of India. A couple of sites [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2007 by samit
Posted on November 8, 2007 by samit
…is suddenly finding out you’ve been mentioned in a Michael Moorcock article
Indeed, we’ve recently been through a period of restoration and reconsideration rather than a period of experiment and I think there are real economic and social reasons why this is so. While mainstream publishers have become more open to publishing synthetic work, including fantasy [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by samit
I’m putting together Indian/diaspora short stories, SF and Fantasy, for an anthology.
3000-6000 words. Deadline 12th November. Payment in royalties in exciting foreign currencies if your story makes it through.
Previously published work is fine. Multiple submissions also fine. Email me your stories with a brief bio.
Also, if you’re a member of a writergroup, or through other [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2007 by samit
Recently found out that Hispacon, an anthology of SF/Fantasy with the following rather diverse bill of fare
España (Víctor Anchel), Argentina (Sergio Gaut vel Hartman), Turquía (Askin Gungor), Israel (Guy Hasson y Lavie Tidhar), Siria (Taleb Omran), Egipto (Mohammed Ashry), Marruecos (Abdusalaam Al Baqqali), Libia (Abdulhakeem Ameer al Tawil) e India (Samit Basu)
is out, and clearly [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2007 by samit