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Samit Basu
Goodreads Author
Born
in Kolkata, India
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August 2012
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The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
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2023
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3 editions
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Shekhar Kapur's Devi - Vol. 1
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2007
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The Simoqin Prophecies (GameWorld Trilogy, #1)
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2004
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12 editions
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The City Inside
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2020
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10 editions
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Turbulence
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2010
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15 editions
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The Manticore's Secret (GameWorld Trilogy #2)
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2005
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6 editions
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The Unwaba Revelations (GameWorld Trilogy, #3)
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2008
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Resistance
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2014
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Terror on the Titanic (Morningstar Agency #1)
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2009
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Devi: Samvara (Devi, #2)
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The City Inside review (Locus mag, Gary K Wolfe) June 2022 issue
(posting screenshots here since the July issue is out now and I couldn’t find an online link: will replace when it’s up)
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Interstellar MegaChef (Flavour Hacker, #1):
"Holy cats! “Great British Bake Off in space with queer women” was a brilliant way to sell this book but it is SO MUCH MORE than that. Interstellar Megachef is EASILY one of the best books I have ever read in my life. Yes, there’s a simmering, layered"
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“I just don't see why having these powers makes it necessary for all of us to become politicians, warriors, social workers, whatever. We would have tried it before if we really wanted to do it. None of us chose to spend our lives helping people before we got our powers - why should we do it now? Because comics say we should?”
― Turbulence
― Turbulence
“Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else”
― The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
― The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
“Most people believe that gods exist. Many do not; this does not trouble the gods, who know that if gods, in turn, were to not believe that people exist, people would actually cease to exist. Mortal belief does make gods stronger; it inflates their egos, which is always good for the metabolism.”
― The Unwaba Revelations
― The Unwaba Revelations
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