Jaime Zapata, Ecuadorian (1957- ), El encuentro (The Meeting), 1992, oil on canvas

We haven't seen this scale of national uprising in India since 2020, & it's making me feel faint flickers of hope for the regime's fall...which in turn is filling me with dread anticipating that hope being brutally crushed as it always has been under them.

Rahul Gandhi and INDIA bloc leaders left Mandi House after they were stopped from proceeding towards the Supreme Court. Anant Gupta and Raghav Kakkar report

The second a reprint of 'The Moon Is Not a Battlefield' from Jonathan Strahan's military sf anthology Infinity Wars, portraying a lunar cold war from the perspective of Indian soldiers stationed on the Moon.

LIGHTSPEED has published two of my stories, the first an original, 'The Worldless', about a caste of workers confined to a barren spaceport planet, servicing the elites who travel the galaxy in vessels built off the bones of ancient xenotech.

Help two of the best genre magazines around remain stay open:

making me nervous. 3 days left and last stretch. in an age of slop conmen and seedy rights grabbers, feels all the more important to focus on the reliable mags we can trust. if you enjoy their work and are able, this is a good time to chip in. the best time even, some might say.

I am so invested in Mohamed's farm 💚

A reminder to my Palestinian friends--I'm currently travelling with my parents and brother and won't be able to write quotes or help as normal. I'm very sorry. I haven't forgotten you. I will be back in November. 🫂🤍