Author: Salik Shah
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आमाको सपना | गोपाल प्रसाद रिमालपछि
आमाको सपना गोपाल प्रसाद रिमालपछि १. आमा! आमा! त्यो आउँछ र? बिहानको शीतजस्तै हिउँ र आगो भएर? “हो, बा, त्यो आउँछ। तिम्रो हिस्सी परेको हँसाइमा तिम्रो तोते बोलीमा त्यो बिहानको सूर्यझैँ आउँछ।“ आमा, त्यो आउँछ र? भन्छन् — म बोल्न हुन्न रे, खुला हिँड्नु हुन्न रे। म सुन्नु हुन्न रे। जे गर्छन् हेर्नु हुन्न रे।…
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Rhino’s Don’t Go to School
Rhinos Don’t Go to School Salik Shah The doctor had warned me not to get into any new trouble before my arm healed. Staying at home wasn’t my idea of fun at all. I liked to play tree-spotting and bird-watching in the jungle surrounding Madi. That’s how I had stumbled upon a rhino calf trying to…
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After Star Trek: Inner Light | Little Blue Marble – Climate Fiction for a Changing World
Signed the contract for my poem “After Star Trek: Inner Light.” It took three years for the poem to write itself in its current form, and now it’ll appear in the gorgeous Little Blue Marble, edited and published by Katrina Archer from Canada. Like the title episode of Star Trek (which is certainly an all-time…
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Poetry: “A Personal Index of Our Times” (Strange Horizons, January 2022)
My poem “A Personal Index of Our Times” is up here on Strange Horizons (January 2022). “Salik Shah offers an abcedarium of the jinn for our global village in ‘A Personal Index of Our Times.’” — Strange Horizons Many thanks to Bogi Takács (eir bio reads: Lamda + Hugo winner) for a glowing review: Vijayalakshmi…
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Notes from Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by David Gerrold
So I finally managed to get through David Gerrold’s short but excellent guide to writing science fiction and fantasy: Worlds of Wonders (Writers Digest Books, 2001) / Amazon. The whole book is bookmark-worthy. Here are three excerpts: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precision. The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on…
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Interview: “Shambhala,” Tibet, and Mithila Review
Photograph: My workstation around 2015 at the time of writing “Shambhala.” Here is my interview with Juggernaut Books, which published “Shambhala” as part of a science fiction series edited by Indrapramit Das in 2016: Do you write everyday? Where and when do you write? Writing is thinking through small and hard problems for me; being…
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“Shambhala” – The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2 (Hachette, 2021)
A childhood dream comes true: my fiction debut in print! I am so excited and humbled to announce that my short story, “Shambhala,” appears in The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2 now available from Amazon and leading Indian book stores. You can order the print edition here on Amazon (India). The…
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TED Talk: Finding a Home for Your Story
Re/Tweet your reply: https://twitter.com/salik/status/1429640601071353863 Update – 19/10/21: The video recording is now up at TED.com and Youtube channel: If you prefer to read, the script is here on Google Docs.
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Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity (New Dimensions in Science Fiction) – University of Wales Press, 2021
I am thrilled and humbled to see this first of significant books to come on Indian Science Fiction, which mentions the work of Mithila Review and Kalpabiswa, among others, and also cites my article on the Indian SF: Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity (New Dimensions in Science Fiction) by Suparno Banerjee – University…
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The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Story – The Flights of Foundry
Flights of Foundry is a virtual convention for speculative creators and fans. The writers, the artists, the game makers and podcasters. The dreamers, thinkers, and doers. The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Story Moderators: Coral MooreSpeakers: Eliana González Ugarte, Andy Dudak, Salik Shah, Valerie Valdes Editors and authors talk about how they…