When friends and could-have-been-a-couple Rishi and Diya follow their charismatic friend Darpan Ray into the glittering, chaotic heart of Bollywood, they expect adventure. What they don't expect is Vishal Alwar - a visionary director haunted by catastrophic failure, convinced that Darpan is his ticket to immortality.Rebranded as the magnetic 'Vikram Rai', Darpan becomes the centerpiece of an obsessive artistic gamble. But lurking in the shadows is Harry Verma, a powerful producer w...

A 2024 Locus Award Finalist! A 2024 Dragon Award Finalist!A "Best Of" pick in BookBub | Lit Hub | Book Riot | The Mary Sue“So much fun!”–Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling authorFrom international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure with heart that reads like ...

A Best SFF of 2022 pick by The Washington Post | Book Riot | Quill to LiveThe City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future."They'd known the end times were coming but hadn't known they'd be multiple...

The Unwaba Revelations is the third and final part of the GameWorld Trilogy, the pioneering work of fantasy by an Indian author, Samit Basu, the bestselling, genre-bending, critically acclaimed, internationally published author of GameWorld, Turbulence, Chosen Spirits and many more.The GameWorld trilogy has been optioned by a Hollywood producer to be adapted into a streaming show for a global audience.The Unwaba RevelationsUnder the all-seeing eyes of the assembled ...

How would you adapt to a world full of superhumans? And how far would you go to stop them destroying it? In 2020, eleven years after the passengers of flight BA142 from London to Delhi developed extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires, the world is overrun with supers. Some use their powers for good, others for evil, and some just want to pulverize iconic monuments and star in their own reality show. But now, from New York to Tokyo, someone is hunting down supers, ...

HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOU ACTUALLY GOT WHAT YOU WANTED? AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU COULD REALLY CHANGE THE WORLD? Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. But then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod. Indeed, everyone on Aman's flight now has extraordinary abilities Aman wants to heal the planet but with each step he takes, he finds helping some means harming others. will it all end, as eighty years of supe...

The Manticore's Secret is the second part of the GameWorld Trilogy, the pioneering work of fantasy by an Indian author, Samit Basu, the bestselling, genre-bending, critically acclaimed, internationally published author of GameWorld, Turbulence, Chosen Spirits and many more.The GameWorld trilogy has been optioned by a Hollywood producer to be adapted into a streaming show for a global audience.The Manticore's SecretBeing a Hero isn't easy—but it's a lot easier than b...

Some old stories never lose their bite. The tales of Vishnu Sharma have barely begun and already he's been kidnapped by talking animals, had a near-death experience with a homicidal boy wizard, and now he's expected to walk INTO a book called the Panchatantra, the ancient collection of Indian fables of which Vishnu is supposedly the guardian. If that weren't enough, when Vishnu is pulled inside the pages of folklore and fantasy, death and oblivion seem all too real. This fairytale is more lik...

Some old stories never lose their bite... Something's invading the stories of our childhood, leaving death and oblivion in its wake. Now, a motley crew of animal heroes from ancient Indian fables must unite to survive. But first they must find the boy destined to save them, the chosen guardian of the Panchatantra. Thing is… he has no idea they even exist. Vishnu Sharma, would be boy-hero, is too busy playing in online tournaments to care about fighting storybook wars. But when a none-too-fict...

Tales as old as time... are running out of it! The TaleCorps assassins, led by the sinister Professor Shadow, strike deep at the heart of the Panchatantra story-worlds. As our heroes fight their fictional foes, Vishnu's betrayal becomes known to all and Leo must make a harrowing decision. Elsewhere a villain is unmasked... and it's not Professor Shadow. Will the self-doubting King Leo manage to save the tale-brethren he's assembled? Will Vishnu manage to turn the tide? This story's reaching T...

As the secret agents of Tale Corps get closer to controlling the Panchatantra storyworlds, Vishnu contemplates the ultimate betrayal. The Panchatantra characters are summoned from their own stories to Council Rock in the center story world of Kathagraha, where their collective future will be decided. But as Leo strives to unite his subjects to face the peril that threatens to overwhelm them, shadows lurk in the forest-it might already be too late. The Panchatantra heroes face imminent danger ...

The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future.“They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livest...