SALIK SHAH

Category: Writing Life

  • Asimov’s Science Fiction

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    Good news! My contributor's copy of Asimov's Science Fiction finally arrived today! #happydance #daymade #speculativepoetry pic.twitter.com/HwZq5DOXOf — Salik Shah (@salik) July 12, 2017 More!

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Annie-Ted Complex

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    Photograph by José Mandojana / The California Sunday Magazine ^  I’ve reached a phase where my fast-food approach to creative writing simply doesn’t work. It’s not enough to get printed. Now I’m asking editors to hold a piece because I think it could be better, which means I’m making no new submissions for a while. And…

  • Let’s Get Back to Business

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    I’ve waited for certain moments with great yearning. But when they finally arrived, I wasn’t always there to experience them. What could an aspiring writer wait more eagerly than his publication? I was making a rare appearance in the college that day when I saw a group of students with their necks stretched up to the notice board. I wondered if…