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ISSUE 13: CONTRIBUTORS
Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Theodore Singer, Vanessa Fogg, H. Pueyo, Donna J. W. Munro, Hannah Frankel, Yilin Wang, Lynne Sargent, Mack W. Mani, Adele Gardner, Mary Soon Lee, Mari Ness, Ishita Singh, Gautam Bhatia, Chaitanya Murali, D. P. Singh, Tarun K. Saint, Rajat Chaudhuri and Jvalant Nalin Sampat
ART by John Glover
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Ishita Singh “All true knowing is mutual…”: Notes on Vandana Singh’s Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
Gautam Bhatia A Delicate Magic: Iona Datt Sharma’s Not For Use in Navigation
Chaitanya Murali Avatar: An English-Italian Anthology of Contemporary Science Fiction from India
D. P. Singh Science Fiction Writings in Punjabi: The Contemporary Scenario
Ng Yi-Sheng: No Other City
Listen: next Monday at 4.30pm, Singapore will disappear. The entire island, its earth and earthworks, its rivers and reservoirs, its megamalls and museums, will vanish, poof, like so much gun smoke. Its flora and fauna too: its orchards and orioles, its rain trees and...
Niyati Bhat — Unstoppable Women, Nightmarish Cities: Asian Horror Cinema
A still from A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night In Asian Cinema, the genre of horror acquires more political and volatile language than any other. There are larger themes such as identity crisis, violence against women, struggles with sexual orientation and political...
Mark James Russell: Samjogo and the Vengeful Stories
When Samjogo descended from the Heavens, it was the first time in six months he had set foot on solid ground. He had never expected to be gone so long, but helping a star recover his wealth and save his family had grown much more complicated than he expected. Samjogo...
Charles Tan: A Retrospective on Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction
It is probably easier to talk about Filipino-Chinese (or Chinese-Filipino?) Speculative Fiction literature than the context surrounding it. While not exactly a translation project, what best encapsulates the situation are the words of Antony Shugaar on the craft of...
Isha Karki: Rooting
Branches jut towards us, splinters scrape our skin and sap leaks from bark split open, coating the curves of our shoulders, pooling in the dips of our clavicle. The forest anoints us. We can’t see through the curtain of leaves; we part our way with batons. A decade...
Interview: Mark James Russell
Mark James Russell is a writer, journalist and producer with 20 years experience in Korea and around Asia, reporting for such publications as the New York Times, Science, Newsweek, The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. He has written two non-fiction books about Korean...
Interview: Glen Hirshberg
By Salik Shah Good Girls, the sequel to Glen Hirshberg's 2012 novel, Motherless Child, has just been published by Tor. Glen is also the author of two previous novels (The Snowman's Children and The Book of Bunk) and three story collections (The Two Sams, American...
Interview: Mary Anne Mohanraj
By Salik Shah Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins), The Stars Change (Circlet Press) and ten other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards, a USA Today Notable Book, and has been translated into six...
Interview: Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award winning Osama (2011) and of the critically-acclaimed The Violent Century (2013). His latest novel is Central Station...
Asian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: A Round Table Discussion
With Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Isabel Yap, John Chu, JY Yang and Priya Sharma By Ajapa Sharma & Salik Shah “The question of how distinct subjective experiences shape aesthetic choices has been of constant concern to us at Mithila Review. This “Asian SF”...
Asian SF – Double Issue (July/August): Open to Submissions Through July 2016
Mithila Review’s Issue 5 plus 6 will come out as a special Asian SF double issue in August 2016. We have received excellent fiction, poetry and non-fiction submissions, but are still in the process of reading, editing and soliciting new work and reprints. For writers...
Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Essential Reading List (2016)
Recommendations from Niall Harrison, Nisi Shawl, Jaymee Goh, Indra Das, Anil Menon & Others What are some of the most successful examples of Asian SF—speculative fiction by an Asian author or those with a meaningful connection with Asia? Based on...
Naru Dames Sundar: Moirae
Moirae Naru Dames Sundar I. Atropos, in the ink-stained night, Shears forged from time-foam Buried in the light cone's shadow. Lachesis, counting star-seeds, Trapped in bound infinity, Unspooling the sea of aeons. Clothos, all-mother, weaving, And from the loom, Light...
Anil Menon: The Speculative Ramayana
It is not clear when we humans began to exchange long bursts of sound for entertainment, but there is a good chance the very first such exchange, the first story, was a love story. And it probably went something like this: Ug the caveman falls in love, there are...
Turning the Lens to Asia
With the launch of our new issue, we have become aware of two things. One, that we are extremely lucky to be part of such an active, open and diverse community of wonderful readers, writers and scholars from around the world. We remain grateful to our amazing readers,...