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Sharang Biswas

@sharangbiswas.bsky.social

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Games, interactive theatre, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member My book THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is now out (from Neon Hemlock Press)!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · Mar 25

My first book is officially out!

If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!

Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...

The cover of THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS, featuring a superhero and a man on the balcony of a South Asian-style palace, beneath a floating garden of purple-green vegetation.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 21h

I really like this, and I think it’s a crucial problem to solve, and I’m happy to pitch in any way I can to help.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

I think Paul, of blessed posting memory, is entirely right here, and I say this *even though* the young people I know remain highly literate and engaged, because I think his sample is way more representative than mine.

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 1d

Acquired at @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social after my reading there of THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS.

I’m gonna read a poem a day!

“Night Sky With Exit Wounds” by Ocean Vuong

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 1d

Another session of our @nyugamecenter.bsky.social faculty campaign of EARTHBORNE RANGERS!

@marcelineleiman.bsky.social, @halfrobot.com, Beau, & I are having a good time!

The four of us sitting at a long table with the game set up before us.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 1d

Am I doing a reading or conjuring up a ball of hallowed energies?

Thanks to @syr.bsky.social for inviting me to read from THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS at hivemindbookstore.bsky.social last night!

Sharang standing in front of an audience doing a reading in a bookstore. The lamp next to him is creating a dramatic lens flare.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 2d

If you're a RPG designer in (or near enough) to London and want to run a promotional intro game in our little shop, get in touch. We've got a weirdly large pool of TTRPG-curious people chatting to us every day. NAB THEM BEFORE 5E GETS THEM!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 2d

Submitted my first-ever Fulbright recommendation! Woo!

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, so like does anyone else get super emotional after every interaction with Hades?

Like, even the salute has me all 😫

“In Shadow, I serve.”

“To Shadow, you’ll return.”

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 3d

this is going to be so incredible you guys, i can't wait a whole year to see this thing. gonna make every other game made in recent decades look like an actual game

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 4d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

This is a fun game in a really cool format, just saying.

Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like old Eppy is going to need a new computer monitor.

In unrelated news, have you heard about Wolfspell? www.worldswithoutmaster.com/bazaar/wolfs... 🐺✨

You know! I bet if I sold five of these puppies, I could easily get that new monitor. 🤔

That's an interesting coincidence.

Wolfspell on a Trifold Album Jacket — Worlds Without Master

A prophecy told in your youth dictates that only fang and claw will rend your destiny, so you must be reborn as beast. The tabletop roleplaying game of adventurers who turn to wolf flesh to fulfill ...

www.worldswithoutmaster.com

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

I’m trying to take joy from small things.

Looking forward to doing a book reading tonight with some other cool authors!

A posted for the event “Fucked Up Fairytales: Stories for the Apocalypse” featuring Saskia Nislow, Syr Hayati Beker, and Sharang Biswas. Tuesday October 7, 7:00 PM—Free. Hive Mind Books, 219 Irving Ave, Bushwick

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Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 4d

"Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will."
Aleister Crowley - Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Woot!

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not the most politically educated person though, so I hope I’m completely wrong about this!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

When I arrived in the US, I was astonished to learn how much of the vaunted Free Press was controlled by right wing interests.

It’s getting worse, & I don’t know a way out of it. Politicians keep telling us to take tiny, individual actions where we really need laws, regulations & work from THEM.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Nice! Sounds lovely and you should go for it! I’ve shown TTRPGs in two exhibitions and it was really cool!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Noice

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Oh woah, cool!

CITOW is actually one of my favourite boardgames and I’m surprised I haven’t roped you in before, lol

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Naomi, we should play CHAOS IN THE OLD WORLD together

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

Well, NYC is expensive, lol. But like bringing in work from many designers, paying the curator, doing the actual exhibition design, it adds up!

Plus getting buy-in from all the senior leadership that a TTRPG exhibition is worth it and all!

Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve tried to organise a small one at a museum I’ve done work with in NYC, but it’s challenging (and expensive!)

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 3d

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 3d

This is amazing; I very much agree with the how the report calculated value to society here:
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

But for people excited about a *literal* profit machine, note that the real net fiscal cost was almost €72M. It made €146M due to the estimated value of gains in mental wellbeing.

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 3d

George Carlin, eat your heart out.

The federal government's list of words to be scrubbed is more than seven, and it is growing fast.

pen.org/banned-words...

Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship

Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 3d

I aspire to be included in a project this demon-cult-coded.

Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 3d

This is a true thing.

Last year I wrote some stuff for a video game that was so secret I don't know the name of it or even the plot.

Sounds like a joke but it isn't!