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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 8d

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.

Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 12d

STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

We Will Rise Again

From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...

www.simonandschuster.com

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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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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 24d

Mad Sisters of Esi, by @tashanmehta.bsky.social (pub by @dawbooks.bsky.social) is an excellent novel, one that plays with metafiction to deliver a really emotional journey to the attentive reader.

Full thoughts:
jamreads.com/reviews/mad-...

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JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite

In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · 25d

these should have been Fast and Furious movie titles

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Jul 22

Linking to this Scientific American interview again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells

Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

www.scientificamerican.com

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Sep 12

My story "DISRUPTION" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social on December 2nd. Thanks to Sareena Kamath at Saga! preorder!

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you!

Medea Jade @medeajade.bsky.social · Sep 8

What did I just read?? The City Inside by @samitbasu.bsky.social is a dark and captivating book that I could not put down. Disturbing and insightful, it comes alive and creeps into your brain, making it impossible to not be still thinking about it days later. 5🌟

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · Sep 3

oh hey it's pre-order sale time again at @barnesandnoble.com which makes it a great time to pre-order WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, interviews about activism, protest, and collective action, edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope|eBook

From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transformative visions of the future, fantastical alternate w...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations!!!

Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s midnight! That means Witch You Would is OUT NOW AHHH!

Sorry I’m going to be insufferable for a minute. Also, please come to the party!

Photo of Witch You Would flanked by a wooden spoon, a rolling pin, and a slate on a swirly greenish background, purple background for the rest of the image. Text: September 2, 2025 9pm - 11pm ET. launch Party. It’s Party Time. Come celebrate the release of WITCH YOU WOULD with us! twitch.tv/thekidsareasleep

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congratulations!

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Aug 5

Happy book birthday to Automatic Noodle, which is all about three things I love: biang biang noodles, San Francisco, and robots. Catch me on book tour, and pick up one of these amazing t-shirts or other swag at automaticnoodle.website (yes, this is the exact URL the robots use in the book).

I am smiling, standing in front of my bookshelf, wearing a green t-shirt that says "Automatic Noodle" and holding up a copy of my book.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congratulations!!

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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Eliane Boey 🎲🚀CLUB CONTANGO out now @elianeboey.bsky.social · Jul 27

If you loved "Sphere", "The City Inside", the film "Infernal Affairs", or you're just up for some cyberpunk and space horror, here's something I wrote earlier!

Three books on two amps. Foreground: Other Minds by Boey. Background: Sphere by Michael Crichton, and The City Inside by Samit Basu. My physical copy of TCI is elsewhere!

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Jul 21

Have been so away from the internet it took me a long while to realise @indrapramitdas.bsky.social's Indian edition of Last Dragoners is out! Please go get it, such a lovely, haunting, beautiful book.

Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · Jul 14

It’s pub day for The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar!

@indrapramitdas.bsky.social’s award-winning novella is a haunting, moving coming-of-age tale of identity and belonging.

Now available at all major bookstores and online.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Jul 2

Many congratulations and happy book day(s) @zenaldehyde.bsky.social !!

Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social · Jul 2

US: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
UK: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/zen-...

The fabulous cover art is by the hugely talented Bo Feng Lin!

Behind Frenemy Lines

Award-winning author Zen Cho delivers a sparkling and witty rivals-to-lovers romance reminiscent of Sally Thorne's The Hating Game and Sajni Patel's The Trou...

us.macmillan.com

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · Jun 29

I would appear to have won the European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame award for Best Author
I, hum, am going to need a minute and possibly a drastic reassessment of my self image

(Thx @effjayem.bsky.social for tagging me)

A picture of the author Aliette de Bodard alongside text that says "Hall of Fame, Best Author"

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Jun 27

Many favourites here in this @marthawells.com list! archive.is/2025.06.26-0...

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thank you so much!

J. Michael Hayes @jmichaelhayes.bsky.social · Jun 14

I love encountering other writers whose prose I instantly feel a kinship for. Octavia Butler, @zzclaybourne.bsky.social, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @tvayyyy.bsky.social, and @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social are just a few of those. Today I got that with @samitbasu.bsky.social’s short “Development/Hell”

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Jun 13

So there is a profile of me in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?

We have tended to imagine machines as either being our slaves or enslaving us. Martha Wells, the writer of the “Murderbot” series, tries to conjure a truly alien consciousness.

www.newyorker.com

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · Jun 13

“she had asked a boss if he would let his children fly on a plane with the litany of flaws and non-conformances he was urging her to “pencil-whip”: “Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” he retorted, much to her horror”

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 13

“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱

One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed

Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.

prospect.org

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Jun 11

Trying to creak back into the newsletter habit: open.substack.com/pub/samit/p/...

Artificial General Sloppiness

And some art to balance things out

open.substack.com

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · Jun 10

My grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) lands today w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt.
First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov).

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott has a purplish/pink background tone (but tasteful!). In the background rise three mysterious towers and a gateway. The path to the gateway is lined by massive statues of warriors with the bodies of humans and the heads of beasts. Two tiny figures stand in a splash of sunlight as they contemplate entering the compound with the towers.

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Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social · Jun 11

Love this so very much

Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Jun 10

love is stored in the small robots 🏳‍🌈 (Bador & Moku from The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by @samitbasu.bsky.social)

#art

three small illustrations of a robot that looks like a golden monkey and a little drone bot interacting. the monkey has metal hands and toes and belly, and a screen for eyes showing different emoji shapes (stars and hearts), and the drone is ufo shaped and a bit rusty, with two camera bits i've drawn like screen eyes also. There's a squiggly line in the background connecting the different drawings. layaroseart.com signed in the corner.

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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · May 15

New book day! 🍾 Please welcome DEAD NOTE — my hometown noir, my thrilla in Manila, the opening act in my crime writer era. It’s a twisty, dual narrative, cat-and-mouse game between a washed-up pop star and a deranged assassin, inspired by the My Way karaoke killings.

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THE MAGIC BOOKSHOP ⁷ 📚 ⁽ˢˡᵒʷ⁾ @magicbookshop7.bsky.social · May 12

MB's newest pick fits right in with the #asianreadathon - Come join us in reading "The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport" by @samitbasu.bsky.social! 🐵

We're excited to pick up a book self-described as a chaotic sci-fi adventure which reads like a mash-up of Aladdin and Murderbot. 🙌

#booksky #bookclub

A graphic featuring cover art from 'The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu' (e.g., a drone, a girl, and a monkey with glowing eyes) and MB's newest reading schedule: Start reading on May 10; Reading check-in on 31 May; Discussion on 14 June; and Choose new book on 21 June. [The original graphic base posted by Tordotcom Publishing (@/TorDotComPub on Twitter).]

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