I’m an Indian novelist, known mainly for SF and fantasy work. I’m also a film director and a writer of comics, animation, short stories, children’s books and nonfiction.
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The City Inside is out in North America from Tordotcom`
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Updates:
Guest post on John Scalzi’s The Big Idea
My Favorite Bit guest post on Mary Robinette Kowal’s site
Guest feature on Sarah Gailey’s Stone Soup: when is dystopia just the real world?
Den of Geek interview/feature
Got to chat with the amazing Arley Sorg for Clarkesworld
Mysterious Galaxy event with SB Divya (tech fails stop around the 6 min mark)
With Saad Z Hossein at Third Place Books:
io9/Gizmodo essay: Immigration advisory for fictional dystopias
Tor.com essay: How to be a protagonist when you’re not the Chosen One and the world is unsaveable.
Latest Duck of Dystopia issue!
“There’s a chilling effect to Basu’s…near-future sf epic, set in a social media–glutted world…The novel’s theme, that the truth does not and cannot set anyone free, is as disturbing as it is thought-provoking.” – LibraryJournal
“The reader’s immersion into their world is truly felt in the conflicts that follow in trying to find a way to be true to oneself when, as one character sums it all up, “What is the point of this tech if it can’t tell us the truth?”” – Booklist
” As history might prove, the mass uprising of the poor, as envisioned by Indi, rarely affects a sustainable shift in the dynamics of power imbalance, especially against an insidious, all-pervasive system. Basu thus creates a cautionary tale of a possible future, leaving us only with an outline of how to navigate it.” – SFRA Review
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Contact: samitbasu(DOT)work(AT)gmail. Books agent: Diana Fox, Fox Literary (NY). Film agent: Milan Agarwall, Tulsea (Mumbai/LA).
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