- 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)
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ICYMI: Links round-up, January–March 2021
- 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)
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