ISSUE 09
MITHILA REVIEW
The JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
FEATURING
Mary Soon Lee, Bruce Boston, Rose Lemberg, John Johnson, Jasper Sanchez, Steve Simpson, Naru Sundar, Laura Page, Anil Menon, Mahvesh Murad, Bryan Thao Worra, Gautam Bhatia, Aditya Singh
WOC SPECIAL
Cassandra Khaw, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Priya Sharma, Vandana Singh, Isabel Yap, S.B. Divya, Shveta Thakrar, Mary Anne Mohanraj & Mimi Mondal
GERMAN SF
Diana Menschig, Oliver Plaschka, Kai Meyer, Alessandra Ress, Kurd Lasswitz
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ISSUE 09
Editorial Isha Karki
FICTION
Jasper Sanchez Stories We Carry On The Back Of The Night
Kurd Lasswitz The Universal Library
Vandana Singh The Mountain
Mahesh Raman Hide
Priya Sharma Blonde
S.B. Divya Binaries
Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Five Lessons in the Fattening Room
Tehseen Baweja Partition
Mary Anne Mohanraj Excerpts: Hammer in the Dark
Anil Menon Excerpts: Half of What I Say
POETRY
John Philip Johnson Four Moons
Naru Sundar Cup of Tea
Laura Page Her Chemo Friend Explains Capricorn
Rose Lemberg Pollen
Bruce Boston Surreal Bucket List #3
Mary Soon Lee Alternate Genders, Chronology Of Items Found On The Moon, Boatman
Steve Simpson When We Were Young
David C. Kopaska-Merkel Traces
Bryan Thao Worra What Kills A Man, An Archaeology of Snow Forts
ROUNDTABLES
The State of Current German Speculative Fiction Diana Menschig, Kai Meyer, Oliver Plaschka & Alessandra Ress
Women of Color in Speculative Fiction S.B. Divya, Priya Sharma, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Shveta Thakrar, Mimi Mondal & Isha Karki
INTERVIEWS
Isabel Yap ” ‘POC’ is a very Western-centric view of identity.”
Cassandra Khaw “Narrative is frightening & staggeringly powerful, and those who control the narrative control what the world sees.”
Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali “It was incredibly important to me to write a story about a Muslim woman.”
Bryan Thao Worra Secret Wars and Distant Stars
REVIEWS & ESSAYS
Shveta Thakrar Thorns In My Throat
Alison Akiko McBain Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler
Mahvesh Murad Under the Radar: Sultana’s Dream
Gautam Bhatia “To hold contradictions in balance…”: Tashan Mehta’s The Liar’s Weave
Aditya Singh Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
Isha Karki Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
