Meet Samit Basu in the UK!

Apex Book of World SF 2 contributor, and author of the recently released, Indian superheroes novel Turbulence from Titan Books, Samit Basu is currently visiting the UK, with several public events planned. If you're UK based, why not pop in and see one of this blog's favourite writers? Samit Basu UK Tour Talk and Signing with Ben Aaronovitch at Piccadilly Waterstone’s...

Samit Basu on Writing (Author Week #4)

I’ve been a writer for a decade now, and in terms of getting books published outside India, this has been my biggest year so far. Also the strangest, but we’ll get to that. My most recent novel, Turbulence, was published in the UK a month ago, I have a story out in the Apex Book...

Review: Turbulence by Samit Basu, reviewed by Anil Menon (Author Week #4)

Turbulence by Samit Basu Reviewed by Anil Menon The opening scene in Turbulence captures perfectly what reading Samit Basu’s work is like. Determined to give his son Vir Singh his first taste of flight, fighter-pilot Balwant Singh dangles and swings his three-year old from the uppermost tier of the Eiffel Tower. To read Basu is...

Samit Basu Interviewed by Charles Tan (Author Week #4)

Samit Basu Interview By Charles Tan Hi Samit! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. First off, could you tell us about your latest book, Turbulence? Thanks for having me on World SF, Charles. Turbulence is a superhero novel. It’s set in India, Pakistan and London in the summer of 2009. Passengers on a flight...

Tuesday Fiction: “Electric Sonalika” by Samit Basu (Author Week #4)

This week on the World SF Blog we're delighted to offer a sample from the just released The Apex Book of World SF 2 - a rare SF short story from Indian author Samit Basu! Check out a copy of The Apex Book of World SF 2 in paperback or Kindle (or in the UK:...

Author Week #4: Samit Basu

I'm delighted to say it's time for our fourth Author Week feature on the World SF Blog! This time we turn our spotlight on Indian author Samit Basu, a recent contributor to the just-released The Apex Book of World SF 2 and author of the wonderful Indian superhero novel Turbulence, available now in paperback or Kindle edition from Titan Books in the UK...

Samit Basu’s Turbulence Release Day in the UK!

Congratulations to Samit Basu, whose novel Turbulence is out today in the UK! We'll be featuring Samit in a future Author Week coming soon. Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn’t have the right connections—but then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and...

Samit Basu’s Turbulence goes to Titan

The Bookseller reports: Titan Books has acquired a superhero story set in India and London, featuring nuclear plants, cricket, Bollywood and radical religious parties. Fiction editor Cath Trechman bought world rights, excluding India, through John Berlyne and John Parker at Zeno Agency to the title,Turbulence by Samit Basu plus the unwritten sequel Resistance. It will be published...

Dukaj, Basu coming to a bookshop near you!

We've recently found a couple of exciting announcements - Wikipedia reports that Polish writer Jacek Dukaj's novel Ice, widely considered one of the best science fiction novels to be published in Poland, will be getting an English language edition from Atlantic Books in the UK. The book is scheduled for 2012. And John Berlyne of...

Interview with Samit Basu

This week, we interview Samit Basu, author of The GameWorld trilogy, among others. Hi! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. In your India Today interview, you mentioned that you never planned on becoming a writer. What made you decide to suddenly drop out of college and write a book? I'd always wanted to be...