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Samit Basu

Novelist. Best known for fantasy and science fiction work. Most recently, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport (Tordotcom)
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Mind Meld

Congratulations to SF Signal for winning the 2012 Hugo for best fanzine! I’m in SF Signal’s Mind Meld this week. It’s on non-Anglo writer presence in the Hugo Awards.

Author week at the World SF blog!

Honoured that one of my favourite web-wander destinations, the World SF Blog, is doing an author week for me. Coming soon (I’ll fill in the links as they come out): a guest post, a Turbulence review by Anil Menon, an interview with Charles Tan and a short story, Electric Sonalika, from the recently released Apex … Continue reading

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International ebook editions of the Gameworld trilogy are out! Kindle, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and the Apple store. More than a month now since Turbulence came out in the UK, and it’s doing well by all accounts – thank you for that. If you’re in the UK and you haven’t read it yet, drop whatever … Continue reading

Welcome

Welcome back. If it’s your first time here, I’m so glad you came, do stick around – unless you’re in a hurry, which must mean you want to buy stuff. First item on the sidebar on the right πŸ™‚ If you’re looking for anything in particular, it should be easily found in the menus above … Continue reading

Apex Book of World SF 2

I tend to do things in the wrong order; I’ve done this all through my writing career. I got a novel published before I started blogging, I became a journalist after becoming a writer, and now, to add to the list, I’ve had several novels out before I got my first story in an international … Continue reading

Bengali vampire bride

From Local Monsters, still very much a work in progress. Hoping to finish it this year.

New Gameworld covers!

The international ebook edition is out very soon. Finished the edit a few days ago. Here are the new covers, designed and drawn by the wonderful Deepak Sharma.

You have (1) Superhero Upgrades Available.

(posted earlier on the Titan Books site, here) It’s amazing that superheroes are still popular, because our concerns as a species have become terrifyingly small. Earlier generations used to really believe in things; gods, life in outer space waiting to greet or annihilate us, nuclear bombs, unknown monsters, evil, identikit foreigners. It was an easier … Continue reading

Turbulence reviewed in SFX

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