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Mithila Review

Issue 7 · January–March 2017

Cosmic Sociology

Featuring our seminal conversation with Hugo Award-winning author Cixin Liu on hard SF and cosmic civilizations.

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25 works 6 fiction · 5 poetry · 6 essays & articles · 5 interviews · 3 reviews Edited by Salik Shah

Fiction

6 works

01 The Twelve Rules of Etiquette at Miss Firebird’s School for Girls Gwendolyn Kiste 02 Axes on Viola Jaroslav Mostecky 03 La Gorda and the City of Silver Sabrina Vourvoulias 04 American Moat Carlos Hernandez 05 Winds That Stir Vermilion Sands David Bowles 06 Gringos Ernest Hogan

Poetry

5 works

01 The Gifts Sandi Leibowitz 02 The Saint Of Small Things, Weeping Margaret Wack 03 Life by the river Jamie Beth Samdahl 04 The Process Sonya Taaffe 05 The Study Mari Ness

Essays & Articles

6 works

01 A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction Regina Kanyu Wang 02 A Binge-Reader’s Companion to Three-Body Trilogy Salik Shah 03 Glimpses of the Evolving Beast: The Mumble Jumble of a Translator Shaoyan Hu 04 Fidelity, Meaning, and Metadata: Observations of a New Translator Andy Dudak 05 Heart of the Labyrinth: Myth as the Starting Point for Storytelling Priya Sharma 06 Spectacular Worlds in Translation Salik Shah

Interviews

5 works

01 Quo Vadis, Czech Speculative Fiction? A Round Table Discussion Julie Novakova, Jaroslav Mostecky, Vlado Risa & Martin Sust 02 Kam Kráčí Česká Fantastika? Panelová Diskuse Julie Novakova, Jaroslav Mostecky, Vlado Risa & Martin Sust 03 Cixin Liu: Chinese Readers Care About the Whole Humanity Salik Shah, Cixin Liu & Shaoyan Hu 04 中国读者关心整个人类文明 Salik Shah, Cixin Liu & Shaoyan Hu 05 Latin American Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: A Round Table Discussion Carlos Hernandez, David Bowles, Ernest Hogan, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Silvia Moreno-Garcia & William Alexander

Reviews

3 works

01 Landscape Of Dreams: Metronome Aditya Singh 02 The East is a Setting: Issues of Place, Theme, and Tone in Ian McDonald’s River of Gods and Beyond Gautam Bhatia 03 Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation Isha Karki