by Isha Karki | Sep 10, 2018 | Articles, Reviews
‘When we shed the disguises that are Georgia and Eliza, and then the skins that are Lola and Tallulah, we are monsters. Fabulous beasts.’ (‘Fabulous Beasts’, 283) All The Fabulous Beasts, published by Undertow Publications (2018), is the much-anticipated debut short...
by Isha Karki | Sep 20, 2017 | Editorials
“Narrative is frightening and staggeringly powerful, and those who control the narrative control what the world sees.” – Cassandra Khaw Growing up in the UK as an immigrant and a POC during the noughties, your cultural references for speculative arts were...
by Isha Karki | Sep 19, 2017 | Reviews
Binti: Home is the eagerly anticipated follow up to Hugo and Nebula-award winning Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. In Binti, Okorafor does a brilliant job of creating a fascinating new universe with its own creatures and conflicts, and establishing a pretty badass lead in the...
by Isha Karki | Sep 19, 2017 | Interviews
Your stories seem preoccupied with metamorphosis and bodily transformations, peopled by characters swapping skin, hiding their identities, taking on the mantle of something else, changing their physiology with technological enhancements, moving from life to death –...
by Isha Karki | Sep 19, 2017 | Interviews
Filipino origin myth and high school ghost story to food-tech dystopia and manga-style series—the breadth of your work is inspiring. You always introduce readers to new and often disturbing worlds. What have been the biggest influences on your writing? My writing is...
