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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Out soon (by which I mean next month) from HarperCollins India. This is the cover, designed by the amazing Ramnika Sehrawat

Cover for Samit Basus new novel. A wolf-headed suit-clad man lounges on a couch. Bright red background

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Got to put all that judginess somewhere

Samit Basu, Manju Kapoor, Anuja Chauhan are this year's Crossword Award Fiction jury.

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Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

THE POISON PALACE is a historical myth-retelling rooted in ancient folklore, about the true cost of Alexander the Great's empire-building, and what happens when a poison maiden gets to tell her own story. Dead women do tell tales. Coming Jan 2027. Preorders live! #BookSky linktr.ee/shreyaila

Yellow and white text against a green background reads "A story of power, love, survival and resistance, meticulously researched, lyrically written and structurally ambition. A stunning debut. Samit Basu, author of The City Inside" On either side of the quote are crumbling pillars resembling the Pataliputra capital, covered with green leaves and white and yellow flowers. Below the quote is the cover of The Poison Palace, surrounded by blue snake heads. The cover shows many of the same elements, the pillars and snakes, alongside the back of a figure of a person with dark brown skin and black hair, wearing golden ornaments in their hair, ears and around their neck.

Yellow and white text against a green background reads "The Poison Palace is a dazzling debut... Shreya Ila Anasuya has entwined fantasy with myth and history to give us a novel as rare as the fabled snake-jewel. It will doubtless snag readers in both East and West. Annie Zaidi, author of Bread, Cement, Cactus" On either side of the quote are crumbling pillars resembling the Pataliputra capital, covered with green leaves and white and yellow flowers. Below the quote is the cover of The Poison Palace, surrounded by blue snake heads. The cover shows many of the same elements, the pillars and snakes, alongside the back of a figure of a person with dark brown skin and black hair, wearing golden ornaments in their hair, ears and around their neck.

Yellow and white text against a green background reads "A gorgeous, sensual, completely captivating novel that immerses the reader in an ancient world and history, at once recognizable and utterly remote from our own. Elizabeth Hand, author of A Haunting on the Hill." On either side of the quote are crumbling pillars resembling the Pataliputra capital, covered with green leaves and white and yellow flowers. Below the quote is the cover of The Poison Palace, surrounded by blue snake heads. The cover shows many of the same elements, the pillars and snakes, alongside the back of a figure of a person with dark brown skin and black hair, wearing golden ornaments in their hair, ears and around their neck.

Yellow and white text against a green background reads "A graceful, fiery verisimilitude both intimate and mythic - it resounds in time, and sings to the present with a singular voice. Don't miss it. Indra Das, author of the Devourers" On either side of the quote are crumbling pillars resembling the Pataliputra capital, covered with green leaves and white and yellow flowers. Below the quote is the cover of The Poison Palace, surrounded by blue snake heads. The cover shows many of the same elements, the pillars and snakes, alongside the back of a figure of a person with dark brown skin and black hair, wearing golden ornaments in their hair, ears and around their neck.

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Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you're daydreaming this summer of alien worlds and fantastical alternate histories, here’s an opportunity to indulge. For 2023's Summer Reading Series, we had Samit Basu, Cat Rambo, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and Benjamin Rosenbaum share their perspectives. You can watch them on YouTube: bit.ly/4xVA1hv

From the Clarion West archives: Summer of Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Series, 2023. Conversations with Samit Basu, Cat Rambo, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Benjamin Rosebaum. Revisit the series.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

So thrilled to read this! Congratulations all.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Congratulations! Really enjoyed this

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Paris has transformed more than 300 streets outside schools into pedestrian-only “garden streets,” replacing traffic and parking with trees, benches and light-coloured paving. Torched buff.ly/ILvaxmw #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Cool streets

Paris's school streets are effectively sculpting out instant parks in the locations where they'll provide immense public health benefits to the city's most vulnerable populations

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 13/05/2026

So this made my day!

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

don't miss any of the perspectives @globalvoices.org brings you from humans - no ai slop - from around the world: subscribe to our whatsapp channel and get every article at your fingertips: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Popping up to remind you that the writing workshop's application deadlines are May end. Ok, return to your doomscroll. open.substack.com/pub/samit/p/...

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Off to the moon, then

(also, workshop app deadline soon)

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is an amazing book and I hope you get to read it soon!

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If you're hype about Artemis, there's a new, annotated version of Jules Verne's truly batshit speculation about what would get humans to the moon, edited by @anaklimchy.bsky.social with essays and annotation by me, @samitbasu.bsky.social, and more!

"From the Earth to the Moon Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age
Edited by Anastasia
Klimchynskaya
Essays by Samit Basu, Jordan Bimm, Erika Nesvold, Adam Oyebanji, Malka Older, Adam Roberts, and Asif Siddigi" [the graphics on this are pretty low-key: a side-bar with a pale moon and stars image, and the cover of the book which is basically the title and two circles representing Earth and Moon in white on a dark background]

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Congratulations and happy book birthday @lavanya.bsky.social !!

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OSAWA, Hirotaka/大澤博隆/慶應SFセンター所長/💙💛 @hiroosa.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

3/14(土) 日本時間18:30からオンラインで、日本南アジア学会第3回社会連携イベントとして、慶應義塾大学サイエンスフィクション研究開発・実装センター（SFRDC）共催による「日印SF交流ワークショップ」を開催します！ラヴァンヤ・ラクシュミナラヤン著『頂点都市』の出版背景を東京創元社の石亀航氏が解説し、サミ・アフマド・カーン氏とSF評論家の海老原豊氏がSFの検討をします。SF小説家でNetflix映画でも知られるSamit Basu氏が、SF作家藤井太洋氏と対談します。週末の夜のインドSF対談。ぜひぜひご参加くださいませ！ keio-sfrdc.jp/archives/630

Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

new newsletter: Future Tense short story link and a quick novel workshop update. samit.substack.com/p/new-near-f...

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New Near-future Short Story

and a workshop update

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Had a really great time working with the editors at Future Tense on a new short story: What Would Akanda Do? out now in issues.org. It's about a Bollywood star who signed away his likeness to AI, and now has some thoughts: issues.org/futuretensef...

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What Would Akanda Do? | Future Tense Fiction

Samit Basu’s story examines deepfake technology, celebrities, and what happens when fame is weaponized as propaganda.

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Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Happy (belated) publication day to Les Soeurs Dementes d'Esi, the French translation of Mad Sisters of Esi done by the wonderful Mathilde Montier 🐋✨

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/02/2026

Oh check it out, Reactor review!

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Veena's Booksky @mswocreader.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The world is on fire and everyone is going through it right now but if you wanna help a Black Author this month, please donate to RSA Garcia's Go Fund Me. It's tough writing a book series while also undergoing cancer treatments. #booksky #blacksky gofund.me/3c25c5376

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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar

Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

First applications have started coming in! Thanks so much everyone who shared.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Popping up from the void to say, I'm starting an independent writing workshop! Do have a look, and share with anyone you think might be interested. samit.substack.com/p/writing-wo...

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Writing workshops

(Yes, I'm starting one)

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

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Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor

While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

We asked @lavanya.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of '26. Read the full article: geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @slhuang.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social & more! geni.us/killingspell

The author and their books:
Lavanya Lakshminarayan, author of THE TEN PERCENT THIEF and the FLAVOR HACKER Duology

The book they'd love for Christmas
Le Carré and Le Guin first editions

Their favourite reads of 2025
THE WATER OUTLAWS
A DROP OF CORRUPTION
TREACLE WALKER

Their anticipated read of 2026
VIGIL
LOVE GALAXY
THE PICTURES OF DARPAN RAY

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall. This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up. Free to read at reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...

Barnacle. Written by Kate Elliott. Illustrated by Juan Bernabeu. Edited by
Oliver Dougherty. A rocky cluster of barnacles rests on a beach. Crows fly over head and two have landed to pick at the barnacles. Red sky, white cloud/background, and green-toned beach.

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan | INTERGALACTIC FEAST out now! @lavanya.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Blown away by these incredibly generous blurbs from the brilliant @kbwagers.com and @samitbasu.bsky.social ! Thank you for your super kind words 💜 INTERGALACTIC FEAST is available to preorder, out March 2026 👇🏼

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Now that the Clarion novel workshop has ended and no one is forced to hear me ramble any more I am contemplating returning to social media, apologies in advance

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

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We Will Rise Again

From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #SpaceOpera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.

Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan | INTERGALACTIC FEAST out now! @lavanya.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The lovely folks over at @scifinow.bsky.social have revealed the cover for my new novel, INTERGALACTIC FEAST 🍩🚀 Go check it out! It’s gorgeous, and it’s all thanks to Sam Gretton and the amazing team at @solarisbooks.bsky.social — thank you all so much 💜

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 18/09/2025

Mad Sisters of Esi, by @tashanmehta.bsky.social (pub by @dawbooks.bsky.social) is an excellent novel, one that plays with metafiction to deliver a really emotional journey to the attentive reader. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/mad-... 💙📚

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JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite

In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My story "DISRUPTION" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social on December 2nd. Thanks to Sareena Kamath at Saga! preorder!

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Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

If you loved "Sphere", "The City Inside", the film "Infernal Affairs", or you're just up for some cyberpunk and space horror, here's something I wrote earlier!

Three books on two amps. Foreground: Other Minds by Boey. Background: Sphere by Michael Crichton, and The City Inside by Samit Basu. My physical copy of TCI is elsewhere!

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