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We are thrilled to announce Gods, Guns and Missionaries by @UnamPillai as the winner of the Crossword Book Awards 2025 - Jury Award for Non-Fiction. Congratulations! 🎉 #crosswordbookawards #manupillai #crosswordbookstores

We are thrilled to announce The Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi as the winner of the Crossword Book Awards 2025 - Jury Award for Fiction Category. Congratulations! 🎉 #crosswordbookawards #ruchirjoshi #greateasternhotel

📣📣 The Open Call for submissions to Vol 2 of Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF is live. 📣📣 Details and submission link in the tweets below! 👇🏼

Read @Gabino_Iglesias’s review of THE MAP OF LOST PLACES edited by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social & @lesleyconner.bsky.social: “a solid group of stories that focus on place in very different ways... a very worthy journey.” locusmag.com/review/the-map…

If you like reading South-Asian Speculative Fiction, we have an opportunity for you. Tasavvur is currently looking for enthusiastic slush readers, preferably with prior literary experience Email us at hello@tasavvurnama.com with your pitch 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

“I read everything. I read my way out of the two libraries in Harlem by the time I was thirteen. One does learn a great deal about writing this way.” —James Baldwin buff.ly/8PIVje5

“PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is a lovely meditation on life, death, and choice. Eden Royce has another home run on her hands with this one.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social (@QueenOfRats) reviews Eden Rocye locusmag.com/review/psychop…

Our latest podcast episode is live! Check out Alice Towey's excellent reading of her story "The Night Heron Rescue" from our Sept/Oct issue podomatic.com/podcasts/asimo…

😍 Bookmark, read, share! "The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction" by @gautambhatia88 @AlterMagIndia

“The best writing is certainly when you are in love.” —Ernest Hemingway buff.ly/FKBR5Nl

Check out as @garykwolfe reviews THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025 edited by @nnedi.bsky.social & @johnjosephadams.com locusmag.com/review/the-bes…

REMINDER: The submissions for our Winter Issue have opened! SUBMISSION Link: sffsouthasia.moksha.io/publication/ta… Good luck, everyone! P.S There is no theme for this issue. 🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards (in the science fiction category). 🥰 You can vote here: goodreads.com/choiceawards/r…

The website of Alter Magazine - a space for “new literary writing on science, technology, and progress from South Asia,” has just gone live.👇🏼 The first long-form piece - my essay on the secret history of Indian science fiction - will be published on 22 Nov. Watch this space!

Listen to @gautambhatia88 talk to @JBhattacharji about Between Worlds and the realm of Indian SFF. @TOIPlus @TimesSpecialTOI open.spotify.com/episode/3BHle2…

“Is there such a thing as 'Indian' science fiction?” — a new interview about the Between Worlds anthology with @moneycontrolcom. [Link in tweet below. 👇🏼]

I wrote a progress report on the novel series that I've been working on. The first book of the @AkhandSaga — Harmony is an anti-colonial, genre-bending science fantasy epic set against the Bengal Famine of 1943 and the machinery of the Second World War. salikshah.com/2025/11/akhand…

Explore @niallharrison’s review of WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN by E.J. Swift: “I say that what Swift has given us in this remarkable book is a benchmark. I imagine rereading it in 25 years’ time.” locusmag.com/review/when-th…