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Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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Author: INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF | THE TEN PERCENT THIEF Arthur C Clarke Award Finalist | Locus Award Finalist Game Designer Rep: Cameron McClure

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Nov 5

INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF is out today in the US/North America + India/South Asia!

It’s the Great British Baking Show in space… and more! 🍩🚀

I’m super excited to be sharing this book with you, and delighted by the all love it’s already received.

A 🧵 with all my gratitude 💜

A close up of me, wearing a white t-shirt, holding a copy of my new book, INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF.

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · Aug 30

This was a month of cool sci-fi reads. 💙📚🪐

TTPT @lavanya.bsky.social
UECO @williamjadams3.bsky.social
RLH @eirabrand.com

Reviews for the first two are already up on Before We Go Blog.

RUN LIKE HELL should be live on FanFiAddict sometime next week.

Three book covers: The Ten Percent Thief, Unlucky Events Cursed Odds, Run Like Hell.

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you for your kind words, Adam!

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · 20d

The lovely folks over at @scifinow.bsky.social have revealed the cover for my new novel, INTERGALACTIC FEAST 🍩🚀

Go check it out!

It’s gorgeous, and it’s all thanks to Sam Gretton and the amazing team at @solarisbooks.bsky.social — thank you all so much 💜

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 25d

Our friends at SciFiNow have revealed Sam Gretton's out-of-this-world cover for INTERGALACTIC FEAST, the second book in Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated @lavanya.bsky.social 's FLAVOUR HACKER duology, sequel to INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF!

Full reveal: bit.ly/4gBiOSg
Preorder: geni.us/intergfeast

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tomorrow!

Can’t wait to hang out with Frasier and Paige, and celebrate the launch of the delightful CAGE OF STARS by @frasierarmitage.bsky.social !

See you there 👾

Frasier Armitage @frasierarmitage.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨LIVE LAUNCH PARTY🚨

Come and join me, @lavanya.bsky.social and @wordsofapaige.bsky.social tomorrow (9/9/2025) at 8pm UK time to celebrate the launch of Cage of Stars!

YouTube link: www.youtube.com/live/1P2_f1v...

CAGE OF STARS Launch Party Livestream

Cage of Stars by Frasier Armitage is here to launch you into the cosmos! Join Frasier and friends WordsOfAPaige and Lavanya Lakshminarayan as they hang out, chat about the new award-winning novel, and...

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Aug 29

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway!

Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?

We've got all that and more!

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Against a blue background, tiled book covers:

THREE EIGHT ONE and THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley
RAKESFALL and THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera
THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson
THE MOUNTAIN CROWN by Karin Lowachee
THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu
SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER by C. S. E. Cooney
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN by Caspar Geon
METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Aug 24

Next stop: intercontinental adventure ✈️

After months of planning, near-cancellations and last-minute scares, we’re all set to catch our flight tonight.

Soon, Paris 💜✨

My partner Shiv and I, looking into a full-length mirror. Two suitcases are in the foreground, along with the edge of the piano. I’m wearing a hot pink crop top and purple joggers. Shiv is wearing a grey t shirt and black joggers, and his hands are on my shoulders.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Aug 17

Brilliant to see @lavanya.bsky.social 's INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF on @bookriot.bsky.social 's list of Six Immersive New Space Operas!

What if #gbbo took place in space, with a dash of the diaspora experience & a seasoning of sapphic romance?!

bookriot.com/immersive-ne...

geni.us/Megachef

6 Immersive New Space Operas

You’ll find a novel human evolution in 1,000s of years, a planetary time travel/Regency romance, and an intergalactic cooking competition

bookriot.com

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thrilled to see INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF on this fabulous new list from Book Riot 🌈✨

Thank you Addison Rizer and @bookriot.bsky.social for including my work in such phenomenal company!

Everyone go get all the books! Pack a snack and enjoy the read 🍩🚀

bookriot.com/immersive-ne...

6 Immersive New Space Operas

You’ll find a novel human evolution in 1,000s of years, a planetary time travel/Regency romance, and an intergalactic cooking competition

bookriot.com

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Aug 11

This sounds *amazing*! And you are too kind, Eliane, thank you 💜

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Aug 11

This sounds incredible, and I’m hungry already! I can’t wait to read what @elianeboey.bsky.social is cooking 👀

Eliane Boey 🎲🚀CLUB CONTANGO out now @elianeboey.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thinking about "elevated" hawker food🤔 and remembering the delight that is @lavanya.bsky.social's "Interstellar Megachef". *cough* If you liked that, I'll have something for you early '27. With a bit of space labour economics because #niche. And cosy kopitiams. Much fun. @starsandsabers.bsky.social

A bowl of bak chor mee in soup. Thin egg noodles in pork bone, seaweed, and garlic broth, with plenty of mince and wontons. (For purists, this is Bedok style and yes technically BCM should be with mee pok noodles but some days I love mee kia.)

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Rachel Gutin @rachelgutin.bsky.social · Jul 29

11) The Ten Percent Thief by @lavanya.bsky.social

This is a great example of a mosaic novel that holds together really well, even as, for most of the book, each chapter is its own self-contained story. Each story gave me a character I cared about and another lens onto the book's dystopian world.

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you for your kind words! ☺️

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Eliane Boey 🎲🚀CLUB CONTANGO out now @elianeboey.bsky.social · Aug 7

New pinned. Family photo of CLUB CONTANGO (mystery novel, single mum "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with gangs, clubs, and gloves off) and OTHER MINDS (technoir novellas: one for the TRON, "Infernal Affairs" and Sphere fans), pubbed by Dark Matter INK 🛒 bookshop.org, blackwells.co.uk, kinokuniya.com.sg

"Club Contango" and "Other Minds", two books by Boey, on an amp, under wooden shelves.

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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · Aug 5

I feel ashamed of myself for even posting this and asking, but I need the help to take some of the stress and pressure away - me and my husband, and our three beautiful dogs, are hoping that you can help raise emergency funds to try and find a new house.

gofund.me/061cd1b4

Donate to Help to Avoid Homelessness, organized by Amanda Rutter

My name is Amanda, and me and my husband, Dan, have just been served a Section 21 notice on t… Amanda Rutter needs your support for Help to Avoid Homelessness

gofund.me

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Les Rades Grises @lesradesgrises.bsky.social · Aug 2

"Analògics contra virtuals"

📖 Ressenya de "La lladre del deu per cent", distopia futurista de Lavanya Lakshminarayan, primera dona índia finalista del premi Arthur C. Clarke, traduïda al català per @chronoscat.bsky.social
@lavanya.bsky.social

🔗 tuit.cat/idzb8

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Aug 5

Congratulations and happy US book day @tashanmehta.bsky.social ! 🥳💜

MAD SISTERS OF ESI is a wondrous, beautiful book. I had the pleasure of reading an ARC (and chatting with Tashan about ESI at a ton of events), and every word shines with her brilliance.

You’ve got to go read it NOW! I

Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social · Aug 5

It’sss pub day! MAD SISTERS OF ESI is now out in the US and Canada.

To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York!

(*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Aug 5

Happy birthday, David! 🥳💜

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you're in the UK and want to read about a young witch who teaches her mother magic.

And about the fight against transphobia and queerphobia, going back CENTURIES.

And about families, both birth families and chosen families, and how we save and forgive each other.

You have until *tomorrow*.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Jul 29

UK readers! Amazing news!

Waterstones has selected Lessons in Magic and Disaster to be part of its #WPreorder campaign.

From today thru July 31, you can get 25 percent off your pre-order of Lessons by using the code SUMMER25 at checkout on the website or app.

www.waterstones.com/book/lessons...

The cover of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, full of glowy moths. The text says that you get 25 percent off upcoming books at Waterstones (selected titles only) between July 28 and 31 using the code SUMMER25 when you pre-order.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 29

We are delighted to reveal the cover for @victormanibo.com's The Villa, Once Beloved, a haunting gothic about folklore, family, and postcolonial vengeance in the Philippines...

reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

Revealing The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo - Reactor

A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in a new gothic horror arriving November 2025

reactormag.com

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thank you! I’ll be able to share more info on the pub date soon, and I’m excited for you to read it ☺️

Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thank you! I’m excited for you to read it, and I hope you enjoy it ☺️

Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Jul 26

❤️

Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Jul 26

Aw, biggest hugs! ❤️

All the lights in my brain keep going off as I read through your precise little changes, and this one was a full on dopamine rush 😆

Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Jul 25

… it’s a delight to encounter his incredible editorial eye while I work on this draft—sharp, subtle and spot on, every single time.

What a privilege it is to work with you, David! ❤️

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan @lavanya.bsky.social · Jul 25

I’m midway through copy edits on the sequel to Interstellar MegaChef, and I just stumbled upon two punctuation tweaks that have completely elevated a sentence.

So this is me taking a moment to shout from the rooftops that @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social is an extraordinary editor, and…

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