Interstellar Story

Samit Basu's latest novel-The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport-is a sci-fi take on the Aladdin story

- Gautam Bhatia

THE JINNBOT OF SHANTIPORT by Samit Basu TORDOTCOM

South Asian speculative fiction, at its best, has always been a mash-up, a mixtape of tonal and percussive diversity, reflecting our own hybrid selves. As one of its foremost practitioners for the past two decades, Samit Basu's novels have always articulated this hybridity, moving seamlessly between sub-genres, narrative traditions and entire mythological universes. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport will therefore feel comfortingly familiar to long-time readers-while also giving us yet another new and memorable addition to the canon of Indian and South Asian SF.