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Do pick up this new SF anthology from Scholastic India; It’s called 7 Science Fiction stories, which should give you a fairly big clue as to what’s in it. I am, for one, with a story called Intergalactic Idol, and among the other writers in there, I’ve previously read (and admired) Nilanjana S. Roy, Anushka … Continue reading
Cheryl Morgan is a writer, reviwer and blogger who runs the popular SFF-news/reviews site Emerald City Q: Though this point of view comes from a country where there’s very little work in speculative fiction or comics going on, it seems to me that while earlier there was much concern about speculative fiction not being given … Continue reading
HUGE revelation in this post. At least TWO MAJOR CHARACTERS in my NEXT BOOK are going to DIE!!!! Yeah.Oh, but you knew that. Or dont care.Fine. I’ll go quietly.Gah.
The following passage appeared in a recent Tehelka story on Kaavya Vishwanathan. Author Samit Basu rises to her defence, “If you wanted to steal from someone’s work, why would you pick obscure stuff?” The plot’s fairly original, but some paragraphs definitely seem a copy. Says he, “There are also speculations that maybe someone at the … Continue reading
Ruchir Joshi once told me that the biggest problem he had with writers who wrote their first books in their early twenties, or earlier, was that they’d seen nothing of life; how were they qualified to write? A very valid argument, despite the undeniable fact that I’m very unlikely to physically experience most of the … Continue reading
If you’re in Bombay, don’t forget to go for the launch of Sonia Faleiro‘s The Girl, at 630 pm, Oxford Bookstore, Churchgate.There’s a reading with Gregory David Roberts.Read more about The Girl here. And there’s an extract online here.
by Rahul Srivastava The equel to India’s first science fiction and fantasy thriller, The Simoqin Prophecies, works remarkably well. Here is Samit Basu again, wildly imaginative and totally in control. This time he frequently allows his cinematic eye to take centre-stage, creating some mesmerising scenes that punctuate the racy narrative – rich descriptions of forested … Continue reading
On the 1st of January this year, the Sunday Times revealed the results of an (excuse the bad pun) undercover operation – they sent typedmanuscripts of the opening chapters of two Booker-winning novels to leading publishers and agents in the UK disguised as works by unknown, aspiring authors, and writhed in glee as one after … Continue reading
The good folks at the Indian Express, Mumbai, have carried a short extract from The Manticore’s secret here.
For those who’ve been asking, I havent stopped writing the Telegraph column…as in, Im raring to go, but they dont want me right now, because they have all these nice ads coming in. So I will be back at some point, I think. I have to say Im quite enjoying the break, though now I … Continue reading
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