NOVELS
THE DEVOURERS
For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalized by the man’s unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok agrees, at the stranger’s behest, to transcribe a collection of battered notebooks, weathered parchments, and once-living skins.
From these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more than human yet kin to beasts, ruled by instincts and desires blood-deep and ages-old. The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant woman named Cyrah—and destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality, Alok’s interest in the stranger grows and evolves into something darker and more urgent.
Shifting dreamlike between present and past with intoxicating language, visceral action, compelling characters, and stark emotion, The Devourers offers a reading experience quite unlike any other novel.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
N. K. Jemisin
“A chilling, gorgeous saga that spans several centuries and many lands . . . The all-too-human characters—including the nonhuman ones—and the dreamlike, recursive plot serve to entrance the reader. . . . There’s no escaping The Devourers. Readers will savor every bite.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Starred Review
“Das’s brutal, intoxicating, and gorgeously visceral debut merges an often mythic sensibility with an appreciation for the coarse beauty of the everyday.”
2015 SHAKTI BHATT FIRST BOOK PRIZE
Short-Listed, 2015
2017 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD, BEST LGBTQ SF/F/HORROR
WINNER, 2017
2016 CRAWFORD AWARD
Short-Listed, 2016
SHORT STORIES
THE MOON IS NOT A BATTLEFIELD
INFINITY WARS (SOLARIS)
2017
Join Elizabeth Bear, Indrapramit Das, and more in an exploration of the furthest extremes of military science fiction…
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LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE
2017
Every day NuTay watched the starship from their shack, selling satshine and sweet chai to wayfarers on their way to the stars.
Read The StoryBREAKING WATER
TOR.COM
2016
Reprinted in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction (Undertow Publications, 2017) and nominated for the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette.
Read The StoryTHE MUSES OF SHUYEDAN-18
ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE
2015
Published in the June 2015 edition of Asimov’s Science Fiction.
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INTERFICTIONS ONLINE
2015
I look up at the godhead. The sand is white around my bare feet, a damp seal. There is no horizon . . .
Read The StoryTHE SUPPLICANT
BLink
2015
The Supplicant looks like a small tree at first glance. A tree shaped like a kneeling humanoid figure . . .
Read the StoryA MOON FOR THE UNBORN
STRANGE HORIZONS
2014
Every night around 1 a.m. Earth-clock, I’d see the shadows of the camp’s dead children on the windows . . .
Read the StoryTHE LITTLE BEGUM
STEAMPUNK WORLD (Alliteration Ink)
2014
Steampunk World is a showcase for 19 authors to invite you to experience the entirety of steampunk.
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APEX MAGAZINE
2013
Reprinted in:
The Mary Sue and StarShip Sofa.
Read the StoryTHE RUNNER OF n-VAMANA
BLOODCHILDREN: STORIES BY THE OCTAVIA E. BUTLER SCHOLARS (The Carl Brandon Society)
2013
This story was also printed in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond by Rosarium Publishing.
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BREAKING THE BOW: SPECULATIVE FICTION BASED ON THE RAMAYANA (Zubaan Books)
2012
Breaking the Bow is a collection of brilliant, original and beautifully told tales, guaranteed to enlighten and entertain.
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CLARKESWORLD MAGAZINE
2012
Reprinted in Aliens: Recent Encounters by Prime Books.
Ziara watched her parent, muo-ka, curl up and die, like an insect might on Earth. muo-ka was a giant of a thing, no insect. Ziara was the one who’d always felt like an insect around it . . .
Read the StoryWEEP FOR DAY
ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE
2012
Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection by St. Martin’s Griffin, Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing by ChiZine Publications, Year’s Best SF 18 by Tor Books and XB-1 (Czech translation) by Clarkesworld Magazine.
Read the StoryTHE WIDOW AND THE XIR
APEX MAGAZINE
2011
Reprinted in The Book of Apex: Vol. 3 by Apex Publications and Soles Series of Stories (eBook) by Upper Rubber Boot Books.
Sanih tries not to scan the shores . . .
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NEW SCIENTIST CULTURELAB
2010
Zukhela spread her wings and looked over the lights of Shukra City, star-bright under the blanketed darkness . . .
Read the StoryLOOKING THE LOPAI IN THE EYES
REDSTONE SCIENCE FICTION
2010
Reprinted on The World SF Blog.
Earth almost looks like home, from here . . .
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FLASH FICTION ONLINE
2010
Reprinted on The World SF Blog. A Podcast reading is available by Canadian Fiction Podcast.
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