Category: Writing Life
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HT Interview
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…
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On the Challenges of Reading, Writing & Publishing Science Fiction & Fantasy in South Asia
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…
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Strange Horizons: 2015 In Review
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.…
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Annie-Ted Complex
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…
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Let’s Get Back to Business
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…