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] The book won a 2024 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.[17]

Das edited and wrote the introduction for the 2024 anthology Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art from MIT Press.[18]

Bibliography

Novels

Novellas

  • The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar (2023)

Short fiction

  • "Looking the Lopai in the Eyes" (2010)
  • "The Widow and the Xir" (2011)
  • "Weep for Day" (2012)
  • "Muo-Ka's Child" (2012)
  • "Sita's Descent" (2012)
  • "The Runner of n-Vamana" (2013)
  • "Karina Who Kissed Spacetime" (2013)
  • "The Little Begum" (2014)
  • "A Moon for the Unborn" (2014)
  • "The Muses of Shuyedan-18" (2015)
  • "Psychopomp" (2015)
  • "Breaking Water" (2016)
  • "The Worldless" (2017) (also appeared as: "Variant: The Wordless")
  • "The Moon Is Not a Battlefield" (2017)
  • "The Shadow We Cast Through Time" (2019)
  • "The Song Between Worlds" (2019)
  • "A Shade of Dusk" (2019)
  • "Kali_Na" (2019), winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction
  • "Incarnate" (2020)
  • "You Will Survive This Night" (2021)
  • "A Necessary Being" (2021)
  • "Here Comes Your Man" (2022)
  • "Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds" (2022)
  • "As Wayward Sisters, Hand in Hand" (2023)

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Year's Best Science Fiction - Thirtieth Annual Collection". Retrieved 19 April 2016.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "Strange Horizons - Archives". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Tor.com - Asimov's Science Fiction #473". 28 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Clarkesworld - Indra Das".
  6. ^ "Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars".
  7. ^ "UBC - DAS, INDRAPRAMIT".
  8. ^ "Building New Worlds". Archived from the original on 27 April 2016.
  9. ^ Haldule, Tej (September 2017). "Brave New World | The Meteoric Rise of Indian Sc-Fi". GQ India.
  10. ^ "29th Annual Lambda Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  11. ^ "2015 Locus Recommended Reading List". February 2016.
  12. ^ "2016 Crawford Award". 2 February 2016.
  13. ^ "Rohini Mohan wins Shakti Bhatt prize". 24 November 2015.
  14. ^ "FIRST BOOK AWARD – FICTION". Archived from the original on 2 August 2017.
  15. ^ "The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar". Subterranean Press. 2023.
  16. ^ Wolfe, Gary (23 June 2023). "Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das". Locus. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  17. ^ "The British Fantasy Award Winners for 2024!". Science Fiction Awards Database. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  18. ^ "Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art". MIT Press. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
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