Mithila Review Issue 5+6

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Mithila Review is a speculative arts and culture magazine. We publish speculative poetry, fantasy and science fiction, film and book reviews, essays and interviews from across the world. A hypertext of original narratives and home of the translated from around the globe, Mithila Review is also an inquiry into the process of translating and the craft of storytelling.

This "Asian SF" double issue of Mithila Review includes contribution from Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Isabel Yap, John Chu, JY Yang and Priya Sharma, Lavie Tidhar, Glen Hirshberg, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Mark Russell, Dean Francis Alfar, Ng Yi-Sheng, Isha Karki, David S. Golding, Charles Tan, Shobhana Kumar, Jennifer Crow, Ken Poyner, Niyati Bhat and others.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Introduction: Dreams & Delusions by Salik Shah

INTERVIEWS
Asian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: A Round Table Discussion
Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Isabel Yap, John Chu, JY Yang & Priya Sharma

Interview: Lavie Tidhar
Interview: Glen Hirshberg
Interview: Mary Anne Mohanraj
Interview: Mark James Russell
Interview: Ken Liu *
Interview: Usman T. Malik *
Interview: Indra Das *

FICTION
Egg by Priya Sharma
No Other City by Ng Yi-Sheng
Samjogo and the Vengeful Stories by Mark James Russell
Excerpt from The Devourers by Indra Das
Rooting by Isha Karki
Shit Flower by Anil Menon
The New Daughter by Dean Francis Alfar
Give and Receive by David S. Golding
Rudali by Amal Singh

POETRY
Lessons in Mango Picking by Shobhana Kumar
Life 38 by Seo-Young Chu
Fallen to Witches by Jennifer Crow
An Elegy by B. Clifford
where are you, / Nessie? by Brendan McBreen
Puppy Love by Ken Poyner
Calcutta: An Ode to an Unborn Life by Ajapa Sharma

NON-FICTION
Asian SF: The Essential Reading List by Niall Harrison, Nisi Shawl, Jaymee Goh, Indra Das, Anil Menon & Others
“Even When We Go to the Stars”: The Burning Light in Mary Anne Mohanraj’s The Stars Change Universe by Isha Karki
Unstoppable Women, Nightmarish Cities: Asian Horror Cinema by Niyati Bhat
A Retrospective on Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction by Charles Tan
Notes on Indian Science Fiction: The Parallel Worlds of Jayant Narlikar and Vandana Singh * by Salik Shah