by Kij Johnson | Apr 1, 2016 | Interviews
Kij Johnson in conversation with Salik Shah: Your novels and some of your short stories are set in Japan. What drew you to the island nation? As a historian, I’ve always read a lot of women’s diaries and journals, and one of the liveliest and most intelligent was the...
by Arkady Martine | Apr 1, 2016 | Interviews
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...
by Indrapramit Das | Apr 1, 2016 | Interviews
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...
by Ken Liu | Feb 28, 2016 | Interviews
A lawyer and programmer by profession, Ken Liu’s fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld, among other places, and won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. He is also a frequent translator of fiction...
by Usman T. Malik | Feb 26, 2016 | Interviews
Usman T. Malik in conversation with Salik Shah: What was the inspiration behind “Resurrection Points”? When I was at the Clarion West Writers Workshop, I told my classmates about a cadaver dissection I participated in for Anatomy class. We’re having lunch...
by Kelly Robson | Feb 26, 2016 | Interviews
Kelly Robson in conversation with Salik Shah: Usman T. Malik said that you seem to have arrived “fully formed” with stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld and Tor in 2015. What and how long did it take to make such a triumphant entry? It took ten years. I’d been writing...
