Samit Basu

Because fungus was growing on this blog. Again. So. About a month to go to Turbulence. Proofs are done. Covers are in. There’s going to be a limited edition hardback, with an extra section ( a cluster of very short stories set in the world of the novel, with the few compulsory drastic reveals) with [...]

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Hello. I’ve just started the first leg of the Terror on the Titanic tour. The dates for the launches in Bangalore, Mysore and Calcutta are: Bangalore: Reliance TimeOut bookstore, Cunningham road, 630 pm 13th July. Update: Here’s a piece in DNA Bangalore about the tour and the book. Further update. The Hindu (The cameo in [...]

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I finished my first book almost exactly eight years ago. Don’t remember the date, but it was in April 2002. I’m about a week away from finishing my fifth, my first young adult novel. That, plus about fifteen issues of comics, twelve short stories or so, two screenplays sold but as yet unproduced, a couple [...]

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This isn’t the cover, it’s an announcement poster; you can see it at Hachette’s stall at the World Book Fair. But essentially, this is it – my new novel is called Turbulence and will be out this year. We’re thinking September/October.

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Posting this story online as part of Crossed Genre’s Post a Story for Haiti initiative. Please click on the link and donate. This story was published a few years ago in an anthology for children, Superhero! The Adventures of Rocket Kumar and other Indian Superheroes (Scholastic). I’ve done some more superhero work since then, but [...]

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The Swiss-Indian comics anthology is out. It is called When Kulbushan met Stockli (I still think my title suggestion was far cooler, but I’ve forgotten what it was so maybe it wasn’t) and it is full of multicolour graphic goodness. Again, this post is a linkdump for now – though I seriously doubt there will [...]

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or spent a lot of time in Calcutta; how else would he know about the relationship between a ghoti and his fish? From the Batman TV Episode An Egg Grows in Gotham [2.13] Robin: “Ghoti” is “fish”? Batman: See here. English phonetics. GH becomes F, as in “tough” or “laugh”. O becomes I as in [...]

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Had much fun yesterday reading to kids at Eureka Bookstore, probably the best-known store in the city as far as younger readers are concerned. Was asking grave young readers, who were arranged in Roman military formation for some reason. Scholastic should be pleased with me – many copies of Bewitched were sold, though I was [...]

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This is lovely. Sorry, actually meant to link to this, which is also lovely.

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