Samit Basu (@samitbasu.bsky.social)

@theignyteawards.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 4:34 PMReposted by @samitbasu.bsky.social

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works goes to

WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social (Saga Press)

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2026 Ignyte Award winner in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works:

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope: EDs. Dr. Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, Malka Older

CONTRIBUTORS: Charlie Jane Anders, Samit Basu, Tobias S. Buckell, Reo Eveleth, Jaymee Goh, Nicola Griffith, Alejandro Heredia, Vida James, N.K. Jemisin, R.B. Lemberg, Sam J. Miller, Abdulla Moaswes, Laia Asieo Odo, Kelly Robson, Nisi Shawl, Ursula Vernon, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Izzy Wasserstein. Interviewees: adrienne maree brown, Andrea Dehlendorf, Walidah Imarisha, L.A. Kauffman, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Kendra Pierre-Louis (Saga Press)

@samitbasu.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:42 AM

I admire people who can make elegant unboxing videos but that is not how I operate. Author copies of The Pictures of Darpan Ray are here!

@vajra.me Sep 30, 2026, 3:29 PMReposted by @samitbasu.bsky.social

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 3:57 PM

ooooh! congratulations

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 3:16 PM

ooh!

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 1:47 AM

Thanks! No, the Indian version of this book isnt scifi.

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 4:35 AM

Thank you!!!

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 7:51 AM

Thank you!

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 2:47 PM

As soon as I have a decent idea for it!

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 1:13 PM

For readers outside India - there’s another announcement I hope to be making soon, about a different book with a different title in a different genre and a different pub date, because obviously a Bollywood Dorian Gray retelling can’t be expected to take just a single form. Do stick around!

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 1:13 PM

Should be on shelves in a few weeks! Please spread the word, and I’ll share links and more as soon as they arrive. For more, please visit my newsletter.

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 1:13 PM

The Pictures of Darpan Ray is my first contemporary novel. It’s a reimagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray, set mostly in Mumbai/Bollywood between the ‘00s and the ‘20s: a twenty-first-century vortex obsessed with youth, beauty, power, art, spirituality and conformity.

@samitbasu.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 1:12 PM

Out soon (by which I mean next month) from HarperCollins India. This is the cover, designed by the amazing Ramnika Sehrawat

Cover for Samit Basus new novel. A wolf-headed suit-clad man lounges on a couch. Bright red background

@samitbasu.bsky.social Aug 13, 2026, 11:36 AM

Congratulations!!

E. J. Swift@catamaroon.bsky.socialAug 13, 2026, 11:06 AM

Woke up this morning and this beautiful trophy was in the house and it was not a dream. Utterly stunned, extraordinarily grateful, deliriously happy. Such a privilege to be part of this year's shortlist, huge thanks to the Clarke Award judges and congrats again to all the brilliant nominees 💫🤍🐺

The 2026 Arthur C Clarke Award trophy against a garden backdrop

E. J. Swift holding the Clarke Award trophy and a copy of When There Are Wolves Again

@samitbasu.bsky.social Aug 12, 2026, 4:15 PM

Im trying to avoid it, the research is too depressing

@samitbasu.bsky.social Aug 12, 2026, 3:06 PM

Definitely the latter. Thank you!

@samitbasu.bsky.social Aug 11, 2026, 3:17 PM

To be honest I didnt think that book was dystopian.

@samitbasu.bsky.social Aug 4, 2026, 7:48 AM

Thanks!

@samitbasu.bsky.social Aug 4, 2026, 7:33 AM

Got to put all that judginess somewhere

Samit Basu, Manju Kapoor, Anuja Chauhan are this year's Crossword Award Fiction jury.

@samitbasu.bsky.social Jun 24, 2026, 2:38 AM

So happy to see Simoqin in this list www.aol.com/news/greates...

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