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Zain Memon is a visionary game designer and transmedia creator who pioneered South Asia’s modern tabletop renaissance.

His political strategy board game SHASN is India's most played modern tabletop game. It has won IndieCade’s Social Impact Award and reached players in over 70 countries. Its sequel SHASN: AZADI, hailed as the "blueprint for semi-cooperative game design," became the first tabletop game honored by Games for Change. Memon has established games as transformative learning systems through his approach to play as pedagogy.

Memon spearheaded ElseVR, India's first VR journalism platform, partnering with UN, Oxfam, and Amnesty International. He produced the internationally celebrated documentary An Insignificant Man and Disney+ sci-fi ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 248 ratings · 157 reviews · 1 distinct work

MAYA: Seed Takes Root (Maya #1)
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Anand Gandhi (Goodreads Author),

Zain Memon (Goodreads Author)

4.21 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2026 — 6 editions

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Zain Memon and 2 other people liked L'encre de la magie 's review of MAYA: Seed Takes Root (Maya #1): "4,8-4,9 ⭐ Reçu en service presse audio"
Aug 27, 2026 12:53AM · see review
Zain Memon and 2 other people liked Layne Miyamoto's review of MAYA: Seed Takes Root (Maya #1): "Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced copy. This world is hard to get the hang of at first but so worth it! Vivid descriptions, an exciting story, time travel, mystery, philosophy, social commentary. I will definitely be keeping up with this series" Read more of this review »
Aug 27, 2026 12:53AM · see review
Zain Memon liked Joseph Chacko's review of MAYA: Seed Takes Root (Maya #1): "Maya is the best available analogy for existence and its nature. In line with the other projects of Anand Gandhi and Zain Memon, this too has the distinct quality of nudging the viewer, player and now reader ever so slightly that a different light is" Read more of this review »
Aug 27, 2026 12:53AM · see review
Zain Memon liked Lily's review of Seed Takes Root (Maya #1): "This book was a quiet, gradual, sneak attack on my soul. It’s that feeling when a fantasy world feels so tangible, so new, so full of things, and yet when a mechanic of the way the world works is revealed, it just feels familiar, as if I could’ve live" Read more of this review »
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“You never get used to dying, no matter how many times you wake up from it.”
― Zain Memon, MAYA: Seed Takes Root

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“A spark ignites a flame. A flame starts a fire, a fire becomes an inferno. A chain reaction is beautiful, but even more so is the spark's innocence.”
― Zain Memon, MAYA: Seed Takes Root

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“When you gaze into Maya, it gazes back into you.”
― Zain Memon, MAYA: Seed Takes Root

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