Indrapramit Das (also known as Indra Das) is an Indian science fiction, fantasy, and cross-genre writer, critic, and editor from Kolkata.[1] His fiction has appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, and has been widely anthologized in collections including Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction.[2][3][4][5]
Das is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop.[6] He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.[7] Das is a former consulting editor of speculative fiction for Indian publisher Juggernaut Books.[8][9]
His debut novel The Devourers won the 29th Lambda Award in the SF/F/Horror category.[10] The novel was shortlisted for 2016 Crawford Award, included in the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List,[11][12] and was nominated for the Shakti Bhatt Prize and the Tata Live! Literature First Book Award in India.[13][14] The Devourers was originally published in 2015 by Penguin Books India and received North American distribution by Del Rey the following year.
In 2023, Subterranean Press published Das' novella The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar in both ebook and limited edition hard copy formats.[15] Locus praised the novella, describing it as "part coming-of-age tale, part love letter to fantasy, part family mystery, and part elegantly understated fable of identity."[16]
Bibliography
editNovels
edit- The Devourers (2015)
Novellas
edit- The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar (2023)
Short fiction
edit| Title | Year | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Kolkata Sea" | 2010 | Flash Fiction Online | Reprinted on The World SF Blog |
| "Looking the Lopai in the Eyes" | Redstone Science Fiction | Reprinted on The World SF Blog | |
| "Exogenesis" | New Scientist Culturelab | ||
| "The Widow and the Xir" | 2011 | Apex Magazine | Reprinted in The Book of Apex: Vol. 3 by Apex Publications and Soles Series of Stories by Upper Rubber Boot Books |
| "Weep for Day" | 2012 | Asimov's Science Fiction | Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection by St. Martin's Griffin, Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing by ChiZine Publications, Year’s Best SF 18 by Tor Books, and XB-1 (Czech translation) by Clarkesworld Magazine |
| "muo-ka's Child" | Clarkesworld Magazine | Reprinted in Aliens: Recent Encounters by Prime Books | |
| "Sita's Decent" | Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Based on the Ramayana by Zubaan Books | ||
| "The Runner of n-Vamana" | 2013 | Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars by The Carl Brandon Society | Also printed in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond by Rosarium Publishing |
| "Karina Who Kissed Spacetime" | Apex Magazine | Also published in The Mary Sue and StarShip Sofa | |
| "The Little Begum" | 2015 | Steampunk World | |
| "A Moon for the Unborn" | Strange Horizons | ||
| "Breaking Water" | 2016 | Reactor (formerly Tor.com) | Reprinted in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction by Undertow Publications and nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novelette |
| "The Wordless" | 2017 | Lightspeed | |
| "The Moon is Not a Battlefield" | Infinity Wars by Solaris |
References
edit- ^ Das, Indrapramit (April 2016). "Indra Das: 'The artist's job is to provide the seed for an infinite tree of branching meanings, all flowering inside the hive mind of a collective human audience.'". Mithila Review. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "Year's Best Science Fiction - Thirtieth Annual Collection". Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ "Strange Horizons - Archives". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
- ^ "Tor.com - Asimov's Science Fiction #473". 28 April 2015.
- ^ "Clarkesworld - Indra Das".
- ^ "Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars".
- ^ "UBC - DAS, INDRAPRAMIT".
- ^ "Building New Worlds".
- ^ Haldule, Tej (September 2017). "Brave New World | The Meteoric Rise of Indian Sc-Fi". GQ India.
- ^ "29th Annual Lambda Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "2015 Locus Recommended Reading List". February 2016.
- ^ "2016 Crawford Award". 2 February 2016.
- ^ "Rohini Mohan wins Shakti Bhatt prize". 24 November 2015.
- ^ "FIRST BOOK AWARD – FICTION".
- ^ "The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar". Subterranean Press. 2023.
- ^ Wolfe, Gary (23 June 2023). "Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das". Locus. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
External links
edit- Writing Global Sci-Fi: White Bread, Brown Toast by Indrapramit Das - Tor.com
- Interview at Mithila Review