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Mithila Review

Issue 10 · September 2018

Tenth Milestone Edition

Celebrating ten issues of international speculative fiction from South Asia and the diaspora.

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23 works 8 fiction · 7 poetry · 6 essays & articles · 2 reviews Edited by Salik Shah

Fiction

8 works

01 A Time Called L’apatia Sarah M. Prindle 02 Crisis Damien Krsteski 03 Sita’s Descent Indrapramit Das 04 Lopamudra’s Wedding Bhushita Vasistha 05 I, Lilli Man Rahad Abir 06 The Glass-Toothed Wolf Dennis Mombauer 07 Tigerflies or The City of the Night Alexandra Seidel 08 Dessert Heads Rajendra Shepherd

Poetry

7 works

01 YUAN: the Origin of a Family Name Yuan Changming 02 Life and Death on the Rocks Alexandria Baisden 03 New Spring FJBergmann 04 nakajiru D.A. Xiaolin Spires 05 Shoegaze + Suburbia Decamora 06 The world is a stage, and the script must change Julie Novakova 07 Ocean’s Child Sarah Ang

Essays & Articles

6 works

01 Futures Dreaming Sohail Inayatullah & Ivana Milojevic 02 Goddess Sita Mutates Indian Mythology into Science Fiction: How Three Stories from Breaking the Bow Reinterpret the Ramayana Sami Ahmad Khan 03 The Indian Space Programme: Human Space Flight Gurbir Singh 04 Seasteading: This Isn’t Planet Earth Joe Quirk 05 Editorial: An Interlude Ajapa Sharma 06 How Medieval Science Fiction Fostered Rational Inquiries About Our World The Conversation

Reviews

2 works

01 The Carpet Makers Jerry Jose 02 All the Fabulous Beasts Isha Karki