An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora.

This book features a mix of original English short stories and works in translation, as well as several comics/graphic narratives. Some are by well-known superstars of Dalit and Bahujan literature, others by emerging or newly-emerged authors.

Explore Western Ghats solarpunk and Khasi-mythology-infused cyberhorror; meet ravenous invisible ghosts, undead fintech bros, and eldritch cucurbits; travel from sacred rock-cut caves of the ancient past to secret libraries of the future!

The list of writers includes Bama (in translation by Meena Kandasamy), Mimi Mondal, V. Chandrasekhar Rao (in translation by Rohith), Gogu Shyamala (in translation by Divya Kalavala), Aswathy K. Raj, Hameedha Khan, Archita Mittra, Snehashish Das, Sahej Rahal, Rahee Punyashloka, Gautamiputra Kamble (in translation by Sirus J. Libeiro), P. A. Uthaman (in translation by Mridula Makkuni), Gouri, Goutam Mandal (in translation by Ipsa S. and Pratiti Ketoki), Neerav Patel (in translation by Gopika Jadeja), Tamilmagan (in translation by Nirmal Rajagopalan), Sumit Kumar, Kunal Lokhande, Yukti Narang, Nabi H. Ali, Gautam Vegda, Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, Yeswanth Mocharla, Subash Thebe Limbu, Sudarshan Devadoss, M.K. Abhilash, Prachi Singh, Shivani Kshirsagar, Gitanjali Joshua, and Esther Larisa David.