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Tashan Mehta

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction

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Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose interest lies in form and the fantastical.

Her debut novel, THE LIAR'S WEAVE, was shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman's Voice Award. She was part of the 2015 and 2021 Sangam House International Writers' Residency (India) and was British Council Writer-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University (United Kingdom) in 2018.

In 2019, she participated in FIELDWORK 0.2, a multidisciplinary residency that explored alternative infrastructures for the future. She was commissioned by the Barbican (London) to create an artefact that captures the essence of the experience; ON UNKNOWN THINGS was printed for limited release in 2021.

Her short story ‘Rulebook for Creating a Universe’ has been published in MAGICAL WOMEN an ...more

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Will Mad Sisters of Esi be available in North America? I read the Locus review, and it sounds fascinating, but there is no North American edition that I can find.
Tashan Mehta UPDATE: Mad Sisters of Esi will be published by DAW Books in fall 2025! Reactor Magazine did a small article on it, along with an extract: https://rea…moreUPDATE: Mad Sisters of Esi will be published by DAW Books in fall 2025! Reactor Magazine did a small article on it, along with an extract: https://reactormag.com/daw-books-anno...

Hi Lianna! The Locus review is one my favourites.

Sadly, there are no plans for the North American edition as yet, but I'm hoping there will be one in the future. I'll post about it as soon as I know more.(less)
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Will Mad Sisters of Esi be available in North America? I read the Locus review, and it sounds fascinating, but there is no North American edition that I can find.
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UPDATE: Mad Sisters of Esi will be published by DAW Books in fall 2025! Reactor Magazine did a small article on it, along with an extract: https://reactormag.com/daw-books-anno...

Hi Lianna! The Locus review is one my favourites.

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“But I am the right person, just not the same person. It is what happens when you wait for someone to come back to you or you make a map to go somewhere you once loved: they change. Nothing is ever as you left it.”
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“That which seems empty is only invisible, it sings. What appears story-less is only unknown.”
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