Thanks and apologies!

Congratulations @vajra.me !!

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.

STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

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 💜

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-... 💙📚

Linking to this Scientific American interview again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

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!

Thank you!

oh hey it's pre-order sale time again at @barnesandnoble.com which makes it a great time to pre-order WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, interviews about activism, protest, and collective action, edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly

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Congratulations!

Congratulations!!

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!

Have been so away from the internet it took me a long while to realise @indrapramitdas.bsky.social's Indian edition of Last Dragoners is out! Please go get it, such a lovely, haunting, beautiful book.

Many congratulations and happy book day(s) @zenaldehyde.bsky.social !!

I would appear to have won the European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame award for Best Author I, hum, am going to need a minute and possibly a drastic reassessment of my self image (Thx @effjayem.bsky.social for tagging me)

Many favourites here in this @marthawells.com list! archive.is/2025.06.26-0...

Thank you so much!

So there is a profile of me in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

“she had asked a boss if he would let his children fly on a plane with the litany of flaws and non-conformances he was urging her to “pencil-whip”: “Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” he retorted, much to her horror”

Trying to creak back into the newsletter habit: open.substack.com/pub/samit/p/...

My grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) lands today w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt. First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov). us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Love this so very much

New book day! 🍾 Please welcome DEAD NOTE — my hometown noir, my thrilla in Manila, the opening act in my crime writer era. It’s a twisty, dual narrative, cat-and-mouse game between a washed-up pop star and a deranged assassin, inspired by the My Way karaoke killings.

MB's newest pick fits right in with the #asianreadathon - Come join us in reading "The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport" by @samitbasu.bsky.social! 🐵 We're excited to pick up a book self-described as a chaotic sci-fi adventure which reads like a mash-up of Aladdin and Murderbot. 🙌 #booksky #bookclub

Thank you to Locus voters for choosing DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (@mitpress.bsky.social, ed. me) as a finalist for the Locus Award for Anthology. Congratulations to all the contributors, & @wtalabi.bsky.social & @aliettedebodard.com, whose stories are finalists too:

Oh, these are *stunning*! I adore this part of the publishing process – the sheer joy never gets old 🥹

Grab your flashlight! Get a compass! 🗺️ THE MAP OF LOST PLACES comes out TOMORROW! Escape into 22 short stories exploring strange cities, terrifying towns and lost landscapes, guided by some of the most beloved voices in surreal fiction! 🧭🏕️ Get lost with us: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

SUPPORT INDIE BOOKSHOPS. (Esp if you're even thinking of buying CLUB CONTANGO, which is about the bad bad not-good things that happen when AI-happy conglomerates govern your space station. With murder, music, and dim sum.)

100 copies available! US only, alas, sorry.

The Map of Lost Places releases on the 29th!! Have you preordered your copy yet? 👀👀👀 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

Delhi book event for Sanghamitra Chakraborty's magnificent Soumitra Chatterjee biography! Tickets here: rzp.io/rzp/soumitra...

"Pikachu running from the police with protestors in Turkey" ok surely not lets just press play and oh no ok

Out now 🔖 Dapaan is a haunting and probing book by @psemolina3.bsky.social drawing on interviews with ordinary Kashmiris about the impact of insurgency & repression on their homes & communities. ‘A beautifully written elegy to Kashmir’ - Myra MacDonald 25% off w/code DAPAAN25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfvwfzn

Surfacing just to post these three anthology covers together and feel really lucky.

Check out these incredible contributors!! I am so grateful to everyone for giving us your time, your stories, your wisdom and hope for a better world. We can build something better together!

tags! @charliejane.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social @roseveleth.com @jhameia.bsky.social @nicolaz.bsky.social @vidajames.bsky.social @nkjemisin.bsky.social @lakauffman.bsky.social @usofdisaster.bsky.social @rblemberg.bsky.social...

So excited for this! Also many thanks to a truly wonderful editor trifecta.

Thank you, @paulsemel.bsky.social !

Congratulations!!

Welcoming American writers to the Get Covered By Legacy/ Prestige Media Before It Turns Fascist challenge.

I'm about $650 from my next milestone. My surgery is in less than 3 weeks. If you could see your way clear to a donation, no matter how small, I'd greatly appreciate it. If not, kindly share and boost. Thank you!

....emerges from a cave clutching a draft. Wait wtf did you all DO

The City Inside by @samitbasu.bsky.social felt disturbingly timely, as it had to do with how information is shared and distorted, and also privilege and what happens to people who don't have it. And this one, too, left me feeling some hope at the end.

Congratulations to our 2025 Novel Writing Workshop class! They'll be working with @samitbasu.bsky.social to create wild and wonderful first drafts. Read more about them on our blog: www.clarionwest.org/2025/01/22/i...

Utterly delighted to see INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF on this wonderful @bookriot.bsky.social list in such excellent company! Thank you for your generosity, @lmanusos.bsky.social ! I’m really glad you enjoyed the read 🍩🚀

Sanghamitra Chakraborty's biography of Soumitra Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee and his World, is an absolutely marvelous glimpse into the many lives of a screen legend and the spaces, cultural, geographic and political, that shaped him. Highly recommend, available for preorder. Here's a trailer.

Very happy Soumitra Chatterjee's birthday to all who celebrate - and if you like Indian cinema, this should include you - and I cannot wait to read this new biography by Sanghamitra Chakraborty! www.penguin.co.in/book/soumitr... #DesiWatch

Delhi, I’m heading your way soon! The fabulous @samitbasu.bsky.social and I will be chatting about INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF at the British Council, so come hang out with us! Date: 18 January Time: 6pm onwards There’ll be tea/coffee + cookies if you make it through the weather, too. Can’t wait! 🍩🚀