Salik Shah

Author, Founding Editor & Publisher - Mithila Review
Author, Founding Editor & Publisher - Mithila Review

Salik Shah is a writer, marketing director, and the founding editor of Mithila Review, the journal of international science fiction and fantasy (2015-). His work has been nominated for multiple awards, and appears on Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (Vol. 2). Read More...


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Planet Democracy

Books by Salik Shah

Featuring 12 original, award-winning and emerging voices from around the world

Planet Democracy: Stories of Hope, Courage, Unity & Compassion is a special edition of Mithila Review devoted to Hopepunk — a literature of resistance, which seeks to inspire compassionate thought and positive action.

Alexandra Rowland, who is said to have coined the term, described “Hopepunk” as a form of literature that is opp

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Mithila Review 15

Books by Mithila Review

Mithila Review is a journal of international science fiction and fantasy. A hypertext of original narratives and home of the translated from around the world, Mithila Review is also an inquiry into the process of translating and the craft of storytelling. 

Every issue of Mithila Review is made possible by contributions from artists, poets and writers around the world. We seek to publish stories that birth creative thought and positive action. Stor

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Khas Pidgin

Books by Salik Shah

Poetry is the language of the soul. In translation, what does it become? Khas Pidgin is a poetic memoir of an alien non-native speaker in both Nepali and English. POET’S NOTES As an ethnic Indian boy, who grew up in Kathmandu as an outsider, my early encounters and experiences of subjugation and disfranchisement continue to haunt and shape my work, including my debut speculative poetry chapbook, “Khas Pidgin.” My parents spoke in Maithali, but ne

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Love Particles

Books by Salik Shah

Poems of love, faith and despair. This new collection of poems from Salik Shah begins with that youthful search for “true love” and ends with bodies blossoming into “wishes and concerns.” Meet the spacers’ ghosts, vampires and humans trying to find and hold onto love, no matter its cost — the resulting suffering and despair, even the destruction of our planet and the many worlds in our cosmos. Love is not always about loss — it’s also abou

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