I am delighted to be included in the latest issue of Mithila Review, a speculative arts and culture magazine edited by Ajapa Sharma and Salik Shah. Follow the link to read the entire thing online for free.
“Mithila is a referent. It is a symbol. It can speak to the times when we have felt that we don’t quite belong. It can speak of the times when we have felt the urge to lurk away and disappear or the times we’ve felt the need to stay. It can speak to the time when we liberated our anger and pain in ways that have only fed the creative river within us. Mithila Review is space for our collective celebration and playful engagement with language. We hope that it can speak in all kinds of ways.”
— Ajapa Sharma, Editor
Issues 5 and 6 explore “Asian SF” and I was fortunate enough to be asked to take part in the round table discussion and haveone of my stories reprinted within- “Egg”, which appeared in “Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales” (edited by Paula Guran).
Cover : Aswang, by Night by Mia S-N
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
Dreams & Delusions by Salik Shah
INTERVIEWS
Asian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: A Round Table Discussion
Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Isabel Yap, John Chu, JY Yang & Priya Sharma
Interviews with Lavie Tidhar, Glen Hirshberg, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Mark Russell, Ken Liu, Usman T. Malik and Indra Das
FICTION
Egg by Priya Sharma
No Other City by Ng Yi-Sheng
Samjogo and the Vengeful Stories by Mark Russell
Excerpt from The Devourers by Indra Das
Rooting by Isha Karki
Shit Flower by Anil Menon
The New Daughter by Dean Francis Alfar
Give and Receive by David S. Golding
Rudali by Amal Singh
POETRY
Lessons in Mango Picking by Shobhana Kumar
Life 38 by Seo-Young Chu
Fallen to Witches by Jennifer Crow
An Elegy by B. Clifford
where are you, / Nessie? by Brendan McBreen
Puppy Love by Ken Poyner
Calcutta: An Ode to an Unborn Life by Ajapa Sharma
NON-FICTION
“Even When We Go to the Stars”: The Burning Light in Mary Anne Mohanraj’s The Stars Change Universe by Isha Karki
Unstoppable Women, Nightmarish Cities: Asian Horror Cinema by Niyati Bhat
A Retrospective on Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction by Charles Tan
Asian SF: The Essential Reading List (2016)
Niall Harrison, Nisi Shawl, Jaymee Goh, Indra Das, Anil Menon & Others
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