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Samit Basu

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Samit Basu is an Indian novelist best known for his fantasy and science fiction work

Samit's most recent novel, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, was published by Tordotcom in the US and Canada in Oct 2023.

His previous novel, the anti-dystopian near-future The City Inside (Tordotcom, '22) was on the Washington Post and Book Riot best SFF of 2022 lists and earlier shortlisted for the 2020 JCB Prize (India) as Chosen Spirits.

Samit's first novel, The Simoqin Prophecies, published by Penguin India in 2003, when Samit was 23, was the first book in the bestselling Gameworld Trilogy and marked the beginning of Indian English fantasy writing. The other books in the trilogy are The Manticore’s Secret and The Unwaba Revelations.

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The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

3.57 avg rating — 1,751 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions
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Turbulence

3.49 avg rating — 1,297 ratings — published 2010 — 15 editions
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3.96 avg rating — 826 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
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Resistance

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The City Inside review (Locus mag, Gary K Wolfe) June 2022 issue

(posting screenshots here since the July issue is out now and I couldn’t find an online link: will replace when it’s up)

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“I just don't see why having these powers makes it necessary for all of us to become politicians, warriors, social workers, whatever. We would have tried it before if we really wanted to do it. None of us chose to spend our lives helping people before we got our powers - why should we do it now? Because comics say we should?”
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“Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else”
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“Most people believe that gods exist. Many do not; this does not trouble the gods, who know that if gods, in turn, were to not believe that people exist, people would actually cease to exist. Mortal belief does make gods stronger; it inflates their egos, which is always good for the metabolism.”
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