Samit Basu
@samitbasu.bsky.social
Novelist. Out next, The Pictures of Darpan Ray, HarperCollins India. I also make films, comics, and other typing-based lifeforms. Currently running a novel-writing workshop. https://samitbasu.com
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
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
So thrilled to read this! Congratulations all.
Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 2mo agoHooray! "We Will Rise Again," the anthology about protest and resistance that I co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social, won the Locus Award last night!! Thank you to all the activists and authors who contributed to this incredible anthology, and to our editor Sareena Kamath!
Congratulations! Really enjoyed this
Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE@thresholdrose.bsky.social · 3mo ago🐍 Cover Reveal 🐍 THE POISON PALACE retells the story of Alexander the Great's invasion of India from the point of view of a courtesan sent to assassinate him. Out with Dutton Books in Jan 2027, will link to pre-orders below. #booksky #amwriting #debutnovel #books
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
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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So this made my day!
Tor Books@torbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoA huge congratulations is in order for @marthawells.com on hitting the @nytimes.com, @usatoday.com, AND Indie bestseller lists with #PlatformDecay !🎉 Congrats, Martha, for this well-deserved recognition! And a big thank you to the readers who made this possible!✨
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Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 3mo agopeople all over the world are working to protect their environment, like these groups in Cuba. This month @globalvoices.org is bringing you stories of environmental defenders, brilliant solutions, committed local action, in our climate action Spotlight: globalvoices.org/special/posi...
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/...
Off to the moon, then
(also, workshop app deadline soon)
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This is an amazing book and I hope you get to read it soon!
Straith 🍉@straith.ca · 3mo agoEVERY YEAR THE SUMMER: Totally hypothetically, what if you were an extremely repressed knight and the only way you could save reality was to let yourself be really, really bi? A24's THE GREEN KNIGHT w/ a transmasc protagonist (and this time the MFM romance is full-blown canon) #Q #A #F #questpit
Want to read an excerpt from MAKE ME BETTER? Welcome to Kindred Cove, where nothing is ever lost.
Read an Excerpt From Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey - Reactor
An eerily seductive look at the desire for community connection and self-improvement—and the darkest places inside us all…
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Gailey 🍉@sarahgailey.bsky.social · 9mo agoMAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief. Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure. It comes out in May. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sqhk2ksk2hgrgf7tfdztchls/bafkreif6fg2s5wylrrvci53vrlxynziu4p4taxujpa2hiwast7b7grtkam)
Congratulations and happy book birthday @lavanya.bsky.social !!
Lavanya Lakshminarayan | INTERGALACTIC FEAST out now!@lavanya.bsky.social · 5mo agoINTERGALACTIC FEAST is out in North America! It’s the sequel to Interstellar MegaChef, with more Serenity Ko shenanigans, more secrets sneaking up on Saras… and all the food in the galaxy 🍩🚀 I’m super excited to be sharing this book with you! A 🧵 of gratitude! But first…
This week's #FreeFictionFriday story is "What would Akanda do?" by Samit Basu from Issues magazine. Find the link to read the story here: issues.org/futuretensef...
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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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
日印SF交流ワークショップ開催のお知らせ
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new newsletter: Future Tense short story link and a quick novel workshop update. samit.substack.com/p/new-near-f...
New Near-future Short Story
and a workshop update
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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...
What Would Akanda Do? | Future Tense Fiction
Samit Basu’s story examines deepfake technology, celebrities, and what happens when fame is weaponized as propaganda.
issues.org
Happy (belated) publication day to Les Soeurs Dementes d'Esi, the French translation of Mad Sisters of Esi done by the wonderful Mathilde Montier 🐋✨
Éditions L'Atalante@edlatalante.bsky.social · 6mo agoConnaissez-vous la forme que prend la folie ? Rendez-vous en librairie dès aujourd'hui pour connaître la réponse et faites la rencontre de deux sœurs : Myung et Laleh, gardiennes de la baleine-univers de babel. Les Sœurs démentes d'Esi de @tashanmehta.bsky.social www.l-atalante.com/catalogue/la...
Oh check it out, Reactor review!
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 6mo agoAll of Us Murderers enjoys the advantages of both a perfect gothic historical romance and an excellent place to start with KJ Charles' books for the uninitiated. @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's review invites us to Lackaday House:
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
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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First applications have started coming in! Thanks so much everyone who shared.
Samit Basu@samitbasu.bsky.social · 6mo agoPopping 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...
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...
Writing workshops
(Yes, I'm starting one)
samit.substack.com
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:
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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We Will Rise Again in the Winnipeg Free Press: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Voices of resistance to dystopian forces coalesce in collection’s stories, essays
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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: https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @slhuang.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social & more! https://geni.us/killingspell
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...
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 👇🏼
Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 8mo agoFeast your eyes upon a duo of delicious endorsements from @kbwagers.com and @samitbasu.bsky.social for @lavanya.bsky.social 's INTERGALACTIC FEAST, the concluding part of the FLAVOUR HACKER duology that began with INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF! Preorder now: https://geni.us/intergfeast
