Samit Basu

Oh check it out, Reactor review!

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

Thank you so much Divya!

Thanks for the share!

Thank you so much Indra! Fair warning I intend to lure you into some kind of instructory thing

♥️♥️♥️ thank you!

Thanks so much Ronnie!

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Writing workshops (Yes, I'm starting one)

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...

Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.

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:

Voices of resistance to dystopian forces coalesce in collection’s stories, essays

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

The author and their books: Lavanya Lakshminarayan, author of THE TEN PERCENT THIEF and the FLAVOR HACKER Duology The book they'd love for Christmas Le Carré and Le Guin first editions Their favourite reads of 2025 THE WATER OUTLAWS A DROP OF CORRUPTION TREACLE WALKER Their anticipated read of 2026 VIGIL LOVE GALAXY THE PICTURES OF DARPAN RAY

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!

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Barnacle. Written by Kate Elliott. Illustrated by Juan Bernabeu. Edited by Oliver Dougherty. A rocky cluster of barnacles rests on a beach. Crows fly over head and two have landed to pick at the barnacles. Red sky, white cloud/background, and green-toned beach.

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
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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 👇🏼

Immerse friends, family — or yourself — in climate futures over the holidays » Yale Climate Connections 12 works of climate fiction for the climate warriors on your gift list.

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Stories off-script: Author Samit Basu’s journey across sci-fi, Bollywood, Netflix and literary mischief Author Samit Basu shares a peek into the wild, chaotic world of writing

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

Isnt that Minions dialogue?

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...

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 !

Thanks and apologies!

Congratulations @vajra.me !!

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.

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.

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...

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...

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 💜

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

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:
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these should have been Fast and Furious movie titles