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...
by Isha Karki | Sep 19, 2017 | Interviews
Five Lessons in the Fattening Room’ features a lush second world fantasy, ‘Concessions’ a mix of magic and science, parched desert and dystopian city, and ‘Boris’ Bar’ an intergalactic world teeming with addiction, artificial intelligence and space travel. What...
by Isha Karki | Jan 9, 2017 | Articles, Reviews
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (2016) opens with editor Ken Liu’s discussion of the limiting nature of comparative categories such as ‘Chinese science fiction’ or ‘science fiction written in English.’ I believe it is important,...
by Isha Karki | Aug 8, 2016 | Fiction
Branches jut towards us, splinters scrape our skin and sap leaks from bark split open, coating the curves of our shoulders, pooling in the dips of our clavicle. The forest anoints us. We can’t see through the curtain of leaves; we part our way with batons. A decade...
by Isha Karki | Aug 8, 2016 | Articles
The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj | Goodreads Mary Anne Mohanraj’s sci-fi novella The Stars Change (2013) is set on planet Kriti, historically colonized by a group of wealthy Indians from Old Earth, now inhabited by a mixed population of humans, humods...
