SALIK SHAH

Author: Salik Shah

  • [FICTION] Zig’s Boars: A Short Anime in Prose

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    After Fukushima Available to purchase at Amazon.com Zig flickers against the static wind, resisting the strong pull of the Furnace, a dark skeletal figure sucks the blood off the horizon. The contour of Zig’s body vibrates like strings. All around him the phantom city falls to eerie shambles while the wordcreatures feed on the radiation…

  • Instructions for Astronauts

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    Become a space traveler, star trekker and adventurer for a few minutes! “Instructions for Astronauts” appears in April 2017 issue of Mithila Review, an international science fiction and fantasy magazine. Written by Michael Janairo in nine parts, it’s about our destiny—humanity’s epic journey through time and space. What is this form? Is it art, poetry,…

  • Violent Delights: “Which species of bird is a drone?” 

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    Field Notes: A photograph from my debut poetry reading at the Partition Museum project – Oxford Bookstore in Delhi / August 2016 War deadens you; street hardens you. I’ve seen boys beaten to pulp, and could do nothing to help them. I’ve come this close to getting smashed, cut or shot, and during those darkest moments of…

  • HT Interview

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    I am sincerely grateful for the opportunity to introduce Mithila Review to the wonderful readers of Hindustan Times! We just launched our first quarterly issue for 2017, and I hope you’ll love it! Apart from excellent poetry, fiction and essays, Issue 7 of Mithila Review features my interview with Hugo-winning Chinese author Cixin Liu (translated by Shaoyan Hu), roundtable…

  • Starting 2017, Mithila Review Becomes A Paying Quarterly

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    Our new multilingual edition with a special focus on the state of science fiction and fantasy in China, Czech Republic and Latin America is now out: Issue 7. Starting this year, Mithila Review is finally turning into a paying quarterly publication thanks to the generous support of our patrons! If you enjoy reading Mithila Review and value what…

  • McDonald’s vs Kamadhenu — Debkumar Chakrabarti

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    Kolkata-based artist and professor Debkumar Chakrabarti on how he sees Indian capitalism: “McDonald’s stands as a representative of global capitalism… and Kamadhenu was a [miraculous] cow. Whatever you want, it’ll give it to you. That is to me some sort of representative of the Indian type of capitalism. [In my art,] I try to show…

  • The Asian SF Issue – Mithila Review

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    The “Asian SF” double issue of Mithila Review is now out. Contributors: Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Isabel Yap, John Chu, JY Yang and Priya Sharma, Lavie Tidhar, Glen Hirshberg, Mia S-N, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Mark Russell, Dean Francis Alfar, Ng Yi-Sheng, Isha Karki, David S. Golding, Charles Tan, Jennifer Crow, Shobhana Kumar, Ken Poyner, Niyati…

  • On the Challenges of Reading, Writing & Publishing Science Fiction & Fantasy in South Asia

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    Cover Illustration: “Enclosed” by Ashim Shakya, from Issue 4 of Mithila Review. In my new Strange Horizons column, I talk about Geoff Ryman’s story that inspired the Mithila Review / Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy project and my earliest forays into SF as a reader. My childhood revolved around comics and other things but none as…

  • The Flight of South Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy

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    The inaugural issue of Mithila Review is out! It features speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction from writers and artists around the world: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Uganda, Canada, United Kingdom, America, etc. The gorgeous cover art was done by Steve McDoland.  See you there!

  • Strange Horizons: 2015 In Review

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    My relationship with speculative fiction took a serious turn in 2015. Darko Suvin’s Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979) and Seo-Young Chu’s Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? (2010) captivated me as much as critical notes and essays on the craft of writing and storytelling by Samuel R Delany, Damon Knight and Ursula Le K Guin.…