Was researching Indian monsters & came across this...article by Sami Ahmad Khan. Being aware of their expansive & v. useful work on zombies, I was baffled by the findings & looked up references for longer than I care to admit. Wonderful format & piece! jstor.org/stable/pdf/272…

Shri Sitaram Yechury, one of the country's leading figures in the Left Movement, was a vibrant leader during his student days & president of the JNU Student Union. JNU respects and expresses its condolences to one of its illustrious alumni. Sitaram Yechury

Delighted to finally share the cover and the blurb for THE SENTENCE. It is now available for pre-orders, and will soon be in bookshops near you. Pre-order here: amzn.in/d/770TMTq Goodreads: goodreads.com/book/show/2197…

To celebrate #HistoryWritersDay24 I’m going to give away a signed copy of my book ‘The Great Épinal Escape’, which tells the unknown story of the greatest POW escape of the Second World War To qualify: Follow me Like and repost this post. I will pick a random winner on Monday

Out today, my 1st anthology, DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social). 10 writers imagine how art forms (and artists) might evolve, devolve, and transform across spacetime near and far, amid the myriad threats to all things creative. (link in 🧵)

#Delhi Mark your calendars! We will be officially releasing Gautam Bhatia’s The Sentence on 12 November (Tuesday) at Alliance française de Delhi. Come and meet us!

Centre for English Studies, JNU invites you to its next event: A discussion with Gautam Bhatia, science fiction writer on "Worldbuilding and beyond: Global and Indian Science Fiction Today" Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 2.00 pm Room 133, SL-2 Building, JNU All are welcome!

Centre for English Studies, JNU invites you to its next event: A discussion on Science Fiction with the author and filmmaker Samit Basu Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 2.00 pm Room 133, SL-2 Building, JNU All are welcome.

Star Warriors of the Modern Raj, reviewed in the latest issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts! Honoured! Link to the current issue of the journal: fantastic-arts.org/jfa/jfa-35-1/ More about the book here: uwp.co.uk/book/star-warr… Thank you, JFA - ICFA/VICFA 2023 #FeaturedCreature Award and Pritee!

Sami Ahmad Khan @ Zoë Skoulding @tarunsaint _ Eileen Anne Gunn Indrapramit Das Tashan Mehta Rajat Chaudhuri Anil S Menon Mithila Review | We ❤️ Science Fiction & Fantasy Shikhandin - Indian Author Anita R Ratnam R.THIVYA Alina Stefanescu susannacrossman Sucharita DuttaAsane Ranjit Hoskote Lucy Writers' Platform Alvin Pang, PhD Anjali Purohit Mrinalini Harchandrai

"Somehow, these artefacts from another reality represented, for me, the frisson of encountering the future" What happened to the future that we once knew? I talk to Rimi B Chatterjee, Gigi Ganguly, Samit Basu and Sami Ahmad Khan for the Economic Times {Image: Rick Guidice}

Gigi Ganguly Samit Basu Sami Ahmad Khan Economic Times 🔗 economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/202…?

🛸ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨🛸 My review of Jörg Matthias Determann's Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life (Bloomsbury Academic) is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies IJMES (by Cambridge University Press)! Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S00207…

Many thanks to the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) for supporting our symposium with this grant!

Latest pub: "Catastrophe, Colonialism, and (Science) Communication in Indian Science Fiction: Jayant V. Narlikar" in the latest issue of Extrapolation (Vol 66, No 2, pp. 159-182). More about the article here: doi.org/10.3828/extr.2… Thx Liverpool University Press More power to Indian SF!

Published! The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa. Eds. Merve Tabur & Sami Ahmad Khan. Delighted my story’s in this anthology studded with startling writing. Congrats!. ⁦Sami Ahmad Khan⁩ ⁦Routledge Books⁩ routledge.com/The-Speculativ…

🎉✨NEW ISSUE OUT!!🎉✨ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz. Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi Happy reading!

Double congratulations to Merve Tabur and Sami Ahmad Khan on the completion of their edited volume The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (Routledge Books, 2025). It has been my honor to provide an endorsement. routledge.com/The-Speculativ…

Sharing my brief introduction to the anthology, which outlines the process through which it was put together.

It’s pub day! The inaugural IF anthology of new Indian SF writing, Between Worlds, edited by Gautam Bhatia, is out now. Available at all major bookstores and online.