![]() ![]() The protagonist, Joey or Bijoyini Roy, has the job of a Reality Controller, i.e. All pretense of a democratic India has collapsed after large-scale de-citizenings and unpersonings, voter-list erasures, internet shutdowns, news censors and data-driven home invasions. This book is not comfortable.Ĭhosen Spirits is set at the turn of the 2030s, a decade from now. But to speak of enjoying this book puts the reader in the same dilemma as that of “liking” an article or picture about an atrocity on a social media platform. ![]() I highly recommend this book, dear reader. Which is not what I can say for his latest book, Chosen Spirits (2020), published by Simon and Schuster India. Needless to say, as someone who was first introduced to the SFF scene in India through the Gameworld trilogy, I have read and thoroughly enjoyed all his works. ![]() From 2004 to 2020, he has experimented with fantasy and mythology in his Gameworld trilogy, children’s writing in The Adventures of Stoob and created his own Superhero universe in his Turbulence and Resistance. As much as Samit Basu is claimed to be a SFF writer, he certainly has a penchant for subverting the norms of the genre and sometimes even challenging the very definitions of the genre itself. ![]()
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