Samit Basu

Congratulations @feliciafm.bsky.social !! Cant wait to read it!

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works goes to WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social (Saga Press) See the contributor list in the alt text

I admire people who can make elegant unboxing videos but that is not how I operate. Author copies of The Pictures of Darpan Ray are here!

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Got to put all that judginess somewhere

If you're daydreaming this summer of alien worlds and fantastical alternate histories, here’s an opportunity to indulge. For 2023's Summer Reading Series, we had Samit Basu, Cat Rambo, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and Benjamin Rosenbaum share their perspectives. You can watch them on YouTube: bit.ly/4xVA1hv

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So thrilled to read this! Congratulations all.

Congratulations! Really enjoyed this

Paris has transformed more than 300 streets outside schools into pedestrian-only “garden streets,” replacing traffic and parking with trees, benches and light-coloured paving. Torched buff.ly/ILvaxmw #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Popping up to remind you that the writing workshop's application deadlines are May end. Ok, return to your doomscroll. open.substack.com/pub/samit/p/...

This is an amazing book and I hope you get to read it soon!

Want to read an excerpt from MAKE ME BETTER? Welcome to Kindred Cove, where nothing is ever lost.

If you're hype about Artemis, there's a new, annotated version of Jules Verne's truly batshit speculation about what would get humans to the moon, edited by @anaklimchy.bsky.social with essays and annotation by me, @samitbasu.bsky.social, and more!

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Congratulations and happy book birthday @lavanya.bsky.social !!

This week's #FreeFictionFriday story is "What would Akanda do?" by Samit Basu from Issues magazine. Find the link to read the story here: issues.org/futuretensef...

3/14(土) 日本時間18:30からオンラインで、日本南アジア学会 第3回社会連携イベントとして、慶應義塾大学サイエンスフィクション研究開発・実装センター（SFRDC）共催による「日印SF交流ワークショップ」を開催します！ ラヴァンヤ・ラクシュミナラヤン著『頂点都市』の出版背景を東京創元社の石亀航氏が解説し、サミ・アフマド・カーン氏とSF評論家の海老原豊氏がSFの検討をします。SF小説家でNetflix映画でも知られるSamit Basu氏が、SF作家藤井太洋氏と対談します。週末の夜のインドSF対談。ぜひぜひご参加くださいませ！ keio-sfrdc.jp/archives/630

new newsletter: Future Tense short story link and a quick novel workshop update. samit.substack.com/p/new-near-f...

Happy (belated) publication day to Les Soeurs Dementes d'Esi, the French translation of Mad Sisters of Esi done by the wonderful Mathilde Montier 🐋✨

Oh check it out, Reactor review!

The world is on fire and everyone is going through it right now but if you wanna help a Black Author this month, please donate to RSA Garcia's Go Fund Me. It's tough writing a book series while also undergoing cancer treatments. #booksky #blacksky gofund.me/3c25c5376

First applications have started coming in! Thanks so much everyone who shared.

Popping up from the void to say, I'm starting an independent writing workshop! Do have a look, and share with anyone you think might be interested. samit.substack.com/p/writing-wo...

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

We Will Rise Again in the Winnipeg Free Press: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

We asked @lavanya.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of '26. Read the full article: https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @slhuang.com @robertjbennett.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social & more! https://geni.us/killingspell

An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall. This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up. Free to read at reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...

Blown away by these incredibly generous blurbs from the brilliant @kbwagers.com and @samitbasu.bsky.social ! Thank you for your super kind words 💜 INTERGALACTIC FEAST is available to preorder, out March 2026 👇🏼

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/imme... @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social

Many thanks to Lakshana Palat for this Gulf News profile: gulfnews.com/lifestyle/st...

Now that the Clarion novel workshop has ended and no one is forced to hear me ramble any more I am contemplating returning to social media, apologies in advance

WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

Congratulations @tashanmehta.bsky.social !

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Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #SpaceOpera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.