body { -ms-overflow-style: scrollbar; overflow-y: scroll; overscroll-behavior-y: none; } .errorContainer { background-color: #FFF; color: #0F1419; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 10%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; } .errorButton { margin: 3em 0; } .errorButton a { background: #1DA1F2; border-radius: 2.5em; color: white; padding: 1em 2em; text-decoration: none; } .errorButton a:hover, .errorButton a:focus { background: rgb(26, 145, 218); } .errorFooter { color: #657786; font-size: 80%; line-height: 1.5; padding: 1em 0; } .errorFooter a, .errorFooter a:visited { color: #657786; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 1em; } .errorFooter a:hover, .errorFooter a:active { text-decoration: underline; } #placeholder, #react-root { display: none !important; } body { background-color: #FFF !important; }

JavaScript is not available.

We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center.

Terms of Service Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Imprint Ads info © 2023 Twitter, Inc.

Conversation

Replying to

Reup: Guest post on

's The Big Idea:

whatever.scalzi.com

The Big Idea: Samit Basu

We all want to be heroes, but how realistic is an individual saving the world? Author Samit Basu explores this idea in his newest book, The City Inside, making his characters focus on what they can…

1

1

4

Reup: Interview/feature on

The City Inside: How Samit Basu Crafted His Anti-Dystopian Delhi

"The struggle for a lot of people reading the book is really in figuring out, in these extraordinary times, who I am and what I can do."

1

2

Reup: My Favorite Bit post on

's site

maryrobinettekowal.com

My Favorite Bit: Samit Basu Talks About THE CITY INSIDE

Samit Basu is joining us today to talk about his novel, The City Inside. Here’s the publisher’s description: The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated S…

1

2

7

Reup TdC essay: How to be a protagonist when you're not the chosen one and the world is unsaveable

How to Be a Protagonist When You’re Not the Chosen One and the World is Unsaveable

You’re having trouble really fitting into your protagonist role. The world you’re in looks like it can’t be saved. Nobody’s declared you the Chosen One, and your attempts to self-declare seem a lit…

1

1

3

Repost: Event with

at

@MystGalaxyBooks

Mysterious Galaxy Virtual Event: Author Samit Basu, in conversation...

Originally streamed on June 8th, 2022.Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore hosts via the interwebs author Samit Basu, in conversation with S.B. Divya. Links to their ...

1

1

2

Video up! Event with

at

@ThirdPlaceBooks

Samit Basu with Saad Z. Hossain — The City Inside

On June 7 2022, Third Place Books welcomed celebrated Indian author Samit Basu for a presentation of his latest novel, THE CITY INSIDE, a speculative story o...

1

Reup: r/fantasy AMA for The City Inside new.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comm

1

2

1

Reup: In io9/Gizmodo, an immigration advisory for fictional dystopias

An Immigration Advisory for Fictional Dystopias

The author of The City Inside takes us on an educational tour of the near future, pointing out some not-so-bad-really options.

1

2

8

Reup: In

's Stone Soup: When is a dystopia just the real world?

stone-soup.ghost.io

When Is A Dystopia Just The Real World?

A Guest Feature by Samit Basu

1

2

3

Reup: A very kind TCI review by Alexis Ong in tor .com

A Needed Twist on Cyberpunk: The City Inside by Samit Basu

The best spec fic/cyberpunk writing is often less wikipedian and more of a wave—an artful sprinkling of jargon and worldbuilding that’s just familiar enough for a reader to recognize the near-futur…

1

2

5

Quote Tweet

The Wrath of the iOtians Podcast

Jake & Ron chat w/ author @samitbasu about his new book the anti-dystopian #TheCityInside Listen to the interview on Apple apple.co/3OhnIUx Spotify spoti.fi/3RNdeiB or your fave podcast app @TorDotComPub #scifi #sciencefiction Check out this preview!

Embedded video

0:47

163 views

3:26 AM · Jul 22, 2022

Replying to

Quote Tweet

@garykwolfe says CHOSEN SPIRITS by Samit Basu is an “extraordinary vision of an urban future that isn’t nearly as remote as we might want it to be” locusmag.com/2022/07/gary-k

1

Quote Tweet

Drew Broussard Isn't Here

Series 2 of #VoyageIntoGenre continues! This time, we look at technology, having it and not having it and being worried about it...

Featuring @samitbasu, @JomaWest, and @rushkoff! Listen wherever you listen / use this link to find a place to listen: link.chtbl.com/VoyageIntoGenre

Show this thread

Embedded video

0:33

223 views

1

Quote Tweet

The Legendarium Podcast: #362. Dystopian Fiction & Writing Across Media, with Samit Basu dlvr.it/SWwzsW