Writing

  • Photo of my uncle Aveek Sen, a middle-aged Bengali man, bald, with glasses, leaning over a windowsill and looking out to daylight, silhouetted, curtains billowing beside him, one hand under his chin, pensive.
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    For Aveek

    The first time Noton, as I called Aveek, appeared in my dreams after his death, he was sitting at...

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  • Julie Andrews in Sound of Music, standing on a grassy hill with her arms spread, a look of ecstasy on her face, snowy mountains looming into mist behind her.
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    Wrong Concerto, by Aveek Sen

    A short piece titled ‘Wrong Concerto’ by my uncle and dear friend Aveek Sen, who died earlier this month....

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    2021 Publications

    Now that 2021 is almost over, and people will soon be throwing it in the trashbin of history with...

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    2020 Recap

    As we leave behind a cursed year to venture bravely into a likely cursed decade (and already very cursed...

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    Audio Reprint: ‘The Widow and the Xir’ at Serial Box

    My story ‘The Widow and the Xir’, featuring a nomadic tribe on a moonworld orbiting a Saturnine giant, and...

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    Audio Reprint: ‘The Muses of Shuyedan-18’ at Serial Box

    My story ‘The Muses of Shuyedan-18 (first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine), about two women on an extrasolar settlement...

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    Audio Reprint: ‘Breaking Water’ at Serial Box

    My Shirley Jackson Award nominated story ‘Breaking Water’ (first published at Tor.com), which observes the social and spiritual fallout...

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    ‘Kali_Na’ Wins a Shirley Jackson Award

    My deepest gratitude to the Shirley Jackson Awards and the jurors this year for selecting my short story ‘Kali_Na’ as the...

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    New Story: The Road From Kothali

    I have new piece of flash fiction out called ‘The Road From Kothali’, a futuristic musing about what the...

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    Kali_Na / Year’s Best Science Fiction Vol. 1

    Honoured that my novelette ‘Kali_Na’, from Navah Wolfe & Dominik Parisien’s THE MYTHIC DREAM, will be in Jonathan Strahan’s THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE...

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