Samit Basu

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

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

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

Disruption, a story in the anthology

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!

Thank you!

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...

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

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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!

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!

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.

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

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

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)

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

Thank you so much!

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.

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

“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”

Artificial General Sloppiness And some art to balance things out

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

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.

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).

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Love this so very much

Background: cityscape at night, headlights blurring into orange, white, blue curves. Foreground: a tablet, a mobile phone, and a paperback all showing the cover to DEAD NOTE; title in white text, above it a yellow text tagline “A killer’s greatest hit starts with a song”; author name Victor Manibo under title, and under that, image of a mostly orange Manila skyline and a woman wearing a sleeveless black shirt with straight mid length hair facing backward; below that a quote: “A gripping cat-and-mouse thriller” - A.A. Chaudhuri. White headphones set down in front of the tablet and mobile. Bonnier books logo in the lower right hand corner of pic.

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.

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).]

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

2025 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 21, 2025, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile …

Thank you to Locus voters for choosing DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (@mitpress.bsky.social, ed. me) as a finalist for the Locus Award for Anthology. Congratulations to all the contributors, & @wtalabi.bsky.social & @aliettedebodard.com, whose stories are finalists too:

Oh, these are *stunning*! I adore this part of the publishing process – the sheer joy never gets old 🥹

Graphic text reads: "Welcome to the Map of Lost Places. Enter at your own risk. With twenty-two stories by authors Brian Keene, Maurice Broaddus, Ai Jiang, Samit Basu, KS Walker and more, editors Sheree Renee-Thomas and Lesley Conner take readers on a tour of places where ghosts are real, old gods are hungry, and towns are not as idyllic as they appear to be. www.apexbookcompany.com"

Graphic text reads: "Apex Book Company presents The Map of Lost Places. Preorder now! www.apexbookcompany.com"

Grab your flashlight! Get a compass! 🗺️ THE MAP OF LOST PLACES comes out TOMORROW!

Escape into 22 short stories exploring strange cities, terrifying towns and lost landscapes, guided by some of the most beloved voices in surreal fiction! 🧭🏕️

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(Esp if you're even thinking of buying CLUB CONTANGO, which is about the bad bad not-good things that happen when AI-happy conglomerates govern your space station. With murder, music, and dim sum.)

100 copies available! US only, alas, sorry.