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Mithila Review

Issue 5-6 · July/August 2016

The Asian SF Double Issue

Landmark double issue surveying speculative fiction across South, East, and Southeast Asia.

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32 works 9 fiction · 7 poetry · 8 essays & articles · 8 interviews Edited by Salik Shah

Fiction

9 works

01 Priya Sharma: Egg Priya Sharma 02 Ng Yi-Sheng: No Other City Ng Yi-Sheng 03 Mark James Russell: Samjogo and the Vengeful Stories Mark James Russell 04 Isha Karki: Rooting Isha Karki 05 Anil Menon: Shit Flower Anil Menon 06 Dean Francis Alfar: The New Daughter Dean Francis Alfar 07 David S. Golding: Give and Receive David S. Golding 08 Amal Singh: Rudali Amal Singh 09 Indra Das: Excerpt from The Devourers Indrapramit Das

Poetry

7 works

01 Shobhana Kumar: Lessons in Mango Picking Shobhana Kumar 02 Seo-Young Chu: Life 38 Seo-Young Chu 03 Jennifer Crow: Fallen to Witches Jennifer Crow 04 B. Clifford: An Elegy B Clifford 05 Brendan McBreen: where are you, / Nessie? Brendan McBreen 06 Ken Poyner: Puppy Love Ken Poyner 07 Ajapa Sharma – Calcutta: An Ode to an Unborn Life Ajapa Sharma

Essays & Articles

8 works

01 Notes on Indian Science Fiction: The Parallel Worlds of Jayant Narlikar and Vandana Singh Salik Shah 02 Asian SF - Double Issue (July/August): Open to Submissions Through July 2016 Salik Shah 03 Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Essential Reading List (2016) Salik Shah 04 Dreams & Delusions Salik Shah 05 Isha Karki — “Even When We Go to the Stars”: The Burning Light in Mary Anne Mohanraj’s The Stars Change Universe Isha Karki 06 Niyati Bhat — Unstoppable Women, Nightmarish Cities: Asian Horror Cinema Niyati Bhat 07 Charles Tan: A Retrospective on Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Charles Tan 08 Mithila Review to be a Quarterly with Payment! Salik Shah

Interviews

8 works

01 Usman T. Malik: "Fantastika can freshen up contemporary South Asian literature" Salik Shah & Usman T. Malik 02 Ken Liu: "History is both the most human of sciences and the most scientific of stories" Salik Shah & Ken Liu 03 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." Salik Shah & Indrapramit Das 04 Asian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: A Round Table Discussion Salik Shah, Ajapa Sharma, Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Isabel Yap, John Chu, JY Yang & Priya Sharma 05 Interview: Lavie Tidhar Salik Shah 06 Interview: Mary Anne Mohanraj Salik Shah 07 Interview: Glen Hirshberg Salik Shah 08 Interview: Mark James Russell Salik Shah & Mark James Russell