ICYMI: links round-up, June 2021

Stephen Theaker reviews Tarun K. Saint’s anthology The Gollancz Book of South Asian Speculative Fiction, available in the UK from 3 June as New Horizons. (4 February).
Indrapramit Das interviewed about his writing process in The Hindustan Times. (4 June)
A roundtable discussion on Indian Science Fiction with Suparno Banerjee, Sumit Bardhan, Sandipan Ganguly and Dip Ghosh, at Facebook’s Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy group. (6 June)
Lavie Tidhar on The Unsung History of Jewish Writers and the Birth of Science Fiction, at LitHub. (14 June)
Ng Yi-Sheng summarises Dean Francis Alfar’s talk Asian Speculative Fiction 101, at Facebook. (25 June)
Trailer for Marvel Studios’ Chinese superhero movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, in cinemas from September. (25 June)

ICYMI: Links round-up, May 2021

Kazuo Ishiguro goes into the history of his novel Never Let Me Go and compares it to his latest novel Klara and the Sun, at Goodreads. (1 May)
E. Lily Yu’s personal ‘A Love Letter to Libraries’ at Uncanny Magazine. (4 May)
Gary K. Wolfe reviews E. Lily Yu’s first non-genre novel On Fragile Waves and assesses the minimal fantasy therein, at Locus. (10 May)
“Is there such a thing as Indian science fiction?” Sumit Bardhan assesses Suparno Banerjee’s Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity, at Scroll.in. (16 May)
Sean Wilsey in conversation with Haruki Murakami, at InsideHook. (25 May)
Kerry Dodd reviews the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Doomed City, at the BSFA Review. (29 May)

Hillary Kelly butts up against Haruki Murakami’s latest collection First Person Singular, reviewed in the Los Angeles Times. (1 April) … Rob Doyle at The Guardian is a little kinder, but not by much. (12 April)
A 1-hour podcast from Kuzhali Manickavel on writing English in India, plus a short story she discusses, ‘Item Girls’, at Granta Online. (2 April)
Aamer Hussain on Usman T. Malik: The Fabulist of Lahore at Dawn. (4 April)
Singaporean spec-fic authors Suffian Hakim and Jocelyn Suarez discuss telling dark stories at Singapore Time Out. (5 April)
Emad El-Din Aysha interviews Malaysian writer Chuah Gaut Eng about her only science fiction story ‘Memoirs of an Aranaean Harpist’ at Eksentrika.com. (22 April)
Lee Mandelo at Tor.com reviews Terminal Boredom, the first of two collections from the iconic Japanese writer Izumi Suzuki. (22 April)
Asian SEA Story on Facebook has an overview of 10 ghosts and ghouls from across Southeast Asia. (25 April)

Desirée Custers on Arab and African Science Fiction: (re)claiming the past, reflecting on the present, and envisioning the future. (26 February)
Ziya Jones interviews Zeyn Joukhadar about her new novel The Thirty Names of Night: “It’s Powerful to Let People Love You with a Name that You Chose for Yourself”, at Hazlitt. (2 March)
Okuma Yuichiro interviews Liu Cixin on Humanity, Crisis, and Changes at Chinese Literature Today. (5 March)
Aliette de Bodard at LocusMag: excerpt from the interview ‘Where Is It Written?’ (15 March)
Ng Yi-Sheng at Facebook on Zen Cho’s 2020 novella The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water ... some useful commentary. (21 March)
Emad El-Din Aysha interviews Dr. Csicsery-Ronay Istvan on The Golden Mean Between Local and Global SF, at The Levant News. (25 March)
Marc de Faoite’s review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun at The Vibes.com. (27 March 2021)
Jaideep Unudurti reviews the latest tome from J. Furcifer Bhairav and Rakesh Khanna, Blaft Publications’ encyclopedic Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India at Open Magazine. (26 March)
The latest Strange Horizons issue is a Palestinian Special. (29 March)

Beejay Silcox reviews Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind, at The Guardian. (3 December)
Shweta Taneja on SF in India, at Locus. (8 December)
Vaisakh E. Hari at India’s The Week on Fantastic worlds and where to find them. (27 December)

Anuya Jakatdar interviews Samit Basu about his new anti-dystopian novel Chosen Spirits, for Books on Toast. (10 June 2020)

Lucianne Walkowicz, an astronomer, responds to Indrapramit Das’s short story ‘The Song Between Worlds’, at Slate. (27 April 2019)

Apala Bhowmick reviews the second in Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s ‘Generation 14’ science fiction series, Clone, for Scroll.in. (19 January 2019)
Chen Qiufan interviewed on CGTN: How does Chinese sci-fi imagination differ from others? [YouTube, 9 minutes] (22 February 2019)

Salman Rushdie on science fiction, America’s cultural crisis, The Satanic Verses and much more, interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy for Channel 4. [YouTube, 42 minutes] (30 May 2018)