It won Wired‘s Goldenbot Award as one of the books of 2012 and was ’s Book of the Year for 2013. Its sequel, Resistance, was published in the UK/US in 2014 and was just as well received. Turbulence was published by Titan Books in the UK in 2012 and in the US in 2013 to rave reviews. Samit’s first international crossover happened with the superhero novels Turbulence and Resistance. The other books in the trilogy are The Manticore’s Secret and The Unwaba Revelations. His first novel, The Simoqin Prophecies, published by Penguin India in 2003, when Samit was 23, was the first book in the bestselling Gameworld Trilogy and marked the beginning of Indian English fantasy writing. Samit is best known for his fantasy and science fiction work. It was published in India as Chosen Spirits by Simon and Schuster India in 2020, became a bestseller in multiple categories in India, and was shortlisted for The JCB Prize for literature, India’s top fiction award. Samit’s most recent novel, The City Inside, an anti-dystopian novel set in Delhi a decade from now, will be published by Tor.com in 2022. Samit Basu is an Indian novelist, film director and screenwriter.
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