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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalSalik 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...
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).
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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
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 opposite of dark and dystopian fiction: “Hopepunk says that kindness and softness doesn’t equal weakness, and that in this world of brutal cynicism and nihilism, being kind is a political act. An act of rebellion.”
“Hope” and “punk” are the two key elements that make hopepunk interesting and powerful. Characters who don’t quit, who resist oppression, and fight for justice, for change, for democracy. There can’t be hopepunk without an underlying and undying faith in global democracy and freedom.
Planet Democracy: Table of Contents
FICTION
Robert Bagnall The Ones Who Scream America
Buzz Dixon Trucker
Eve Morton Milkman
Mark Rivett This Is My Home
paulo da costa Harefoot Express
Johnny Caputo The Rhythms of the World
Jetse de Vries Zen and the Art of Gaia Maintenance
POETRY
Mari Ness Horsemen
J. D. Harlock Brighter Than the Last
Angela Acosta Paradise of the Abyss
Florence Lenaers School of Continuing Education
Gretchen Rockwell In My Utopias
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
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. Stories that accurately describe our world, and triumph over fear, mistrust and despair. Stories that guide us and the future.
This issue (#15) of Mithila Review contains:
FICTION
"Arisudan" by Rimi B. Chatterjee
"Of Castles and Oceans" by Nicole Tanquary
"Children Between Lines" by Soham Guha
"Different Shores" by David Heckman
"The Knowing" by Neelu Singh
"Our Bodies Sing the Stars" by Carlos Norcia
POETRY
"Packing Tips For Time Travelers" by Michael Janairo
"Colonial" by Sonya Taaffe
"We’re Refugees Who Found Love Searching for Atlantis" by Holly Lyn Walrath, Marco Raimondo
"Harvest" by Sandi Leibowitz
"The Echo Chamber" by David Memmott
"Ceramics" by Anne Carly Abad
REVIEWS
The Best of Richard Matheson by Prashanth Gopalan
The Wall of the Worlds by Sami Ahmad Khan
INTERVIEWS
Cathleen Klibanoff with Ishita Singh
Sami Ahmad Khan with Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
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
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 never so much with us; I grew up speaking Khas-Nepali at home because of my schooling, but after I left Kathmandu, English become my primary tongue. That doesn’t mean English came naturally to me; it requires some effort, hence the title of my poetry chapbook: “Khas Pidgin.” Following the recent civil unrest and violence in the Terai belt of the former Himalayan kingdom, it became very clear to me that I had to speak up about my past experiences and traumas so that people know about the widespread racism which exists in the subcontinent, through the medium that came most naturally to me: poetry and fiction. Soon Mithila Review was born out of the quest for dignity and justice; “Khas Pidgin” would take one more year of preparation and work.
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
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 about faith during times of utter hopelessness and crises. Hope that becomes dreams and realities in an alternate universe! In the tradition of some of the finest literary and speculative, science fiction, fantasy and magic realist poetry from around the world, these poems encompass a vast expanse of time and imagination, and take us beyond worlds already familiar and strange to us. From the Author: "I write poems about love as a last resort of sorts during those brief and terrifying moments of despair that seem to last forever. Like when I am falling down and apart, and I desperately need a rope of words to claw out of the darkness that is always hiding behind the sun. As I share these intimate poems with you, I truly hope you will find beauty, hope and strength in them no matter how bleak the future and the world appear at times."
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