A Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy. Estd. 2015.
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Valley of Tears by Rabi Thapa
“Most of the stories in Nothing to Declare are located in a Kathmandu as experienced by young people. They go to school, drink and smoke, have sex, go abroad, and come back and get married. But the final story “Valley of Tears,” is a millennial conceit that seeks to...
Sanjeev and Robotwallah by Ian McDonald
In a review of Ian McDonald’s monumental novel River of Gods, the Washington Post called him “a writer who is becoming one of the best SF novelists of our time.” Certainly, he has tapped into the zeitgeist with his recent work, which charts the move from...
Arkady Martine: “What I am doing when I write – in part – is trying to formulate a poetics of exile.”
Arkady Martine in conversation with Salik Shah: You describe yourself as a “peripatetic scholar-poet: constructed of equal parts SFF and Byzantine history.” Your characters seem to want to belong to the past. They are wanderers who always return “home” even when it is...
The Epilogue of Flight 714 by Arjun Rajendran
The Epilogue of Flight 714 Arjun Rajendran Rastapopulous, for all his bonda nose, wasn’t clairvoyant. Or he’d have seen it coming, the silvery bindi hovering above the island in Flight 714, the portal it opened just outside Coimbatore, flattening acres of coconut...
Two Poems by Arkady Martine
Abandon Normal Instruments Arkady Martine There isn't any such thing as you. (And now there really isn't.) You protean exile! All narrative, all trick. All abnegation of humanity. A succession of images – apophantic messiah! alien traveler! – encompassing their own...
Two Poems by Seo-Young Chu
What is the maiden name of Frankenstein's creature? Seo-Young Chu What is the maiden name of Frankenstein's creature? In which year was 1984 published? In whose brain was a funeral felt? In which year was Neuromancer published? How do you spell the title of Theresa...
Blue-Shifted Futures by Vajra Chandrasekera
Editor's Note: "Blue-Shifted Futures" has been withdrawn from Mithila Review by the author.
Indra Das: “The artist’s job is to provide the seed for an infinite tree of branching meanings, all flowering inside the hive mind of a collective human audience.”
Indra Das in conversation with Salik Shah: What do you prefer: Kolkata or Calcutta? I have no preference. They’re ultimately not that different, and I kind of like that the city has two names; one for the past and one for the present. I tend to use Kolkata because...
The Adventure by Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
Date : July 19, 1986. Time: 7.36 p.m. That was when it happened. At that precise moment of time, Professor Gangadharpant Gaitonde collided with a truck and apparently vanished into thin air. But let us begin the story at the beginning. Professor Gaitonde was an...
Madhesh Through Magic Mirror: History and the Quest for ‘Self’ by Bhushita Vasistha
The Edibles and The Inedibles I do not remember how Mother looked when she came to Saptari with a child cradled in her arms. The journey from Kathmandu, where she was trying to complete her Bachelor in Arts with no small difficulties, must have been tiresome. I was...