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Samit Basu

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Samit Basu is an Indian novelist best known for his fantasy and science fiction work

Samit's most recent novel, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, was published by Tordotcom in the US and Canada in Oct 2023.

His previous novel, the anti-dystopian near-future The City Inside (Tordotcom, '22) was on the Washington Post and Book Riot best SFF of 2022 lists and earlier shortlisted for the 2020 JCB Prize (India) as Chosen Spirits.

Samit's 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. The other books in the trilogy are The Manticore’s Secret and The Unwaba Revelations.

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	Shekhar Kapur's Devi - Vol. 1 by Samit Basu (Goodreads Author), Sidharth Kotian, Shekhar Kapur (Created By) 3.93 avg rating — 1,567 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Simoqin Prophecies (GameWorld Trilogy, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 1,301 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport 3.58 avg rating — 1,392 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turbulence 3.48 avg rating — 1,275 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City Inside 3.30 avg rating — 1,283 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Manticore's Secret (GameWorld Trilogy #2) 3.96 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unwaba Revelations (GameWorld Trilogy, #3) 3.73 avg rating — 715 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resistance 3.57 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terror on the Titanic (Morningstar Agency #1) 3.13 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devi: Samvara (Devi, #2) by Samit Basu (Goodreads Author), Shekhar Kapur 3.43 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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GameWorld Trilogy (3 books)
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Samit Basu (Goodreads Author)

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Devi (collected editions) (5 books)
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Shekhar Kapur

3.89 avg rating — 1,706 ratings

Turbulence (2 books)
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The Adventures of Stoob (3 books)
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Samit Basu (Goodreads Author),

Sunaina Coelho (Illustrator)

4.21 avg rating — 91 ratings

The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma : Panchatantra (5 books)
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Samit Basu (Goodreads Author),

Ashish Padlekar (Art Work)

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“I just don't see why having these powers makes it necessary for all of us to become politicians, warriors, social workers, whatever. We would have tried it before if we really wanted to do it. None of us chose to spend our lives helping people before we got our powers - why should we do it now? Because comics say we should?”
― Samit Basu, Turbulence

tags: comics, doing-good, obligation, powers, superheroes

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“Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else”
― Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

tags: life

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“Here’s something you might not know, though—rulers tend to not be the smartest people.”
― Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

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The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin

11 votes, 28.9%

Riftwar Saga & Empire Trilogy by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts

7 votes, 18.4%

The Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold

6 votes, 15.8%

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

4 votes, 10.5%

Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

3 votes, 7.9%

Rai-Kirah series by Carol Berg

2 votes, 5.3%

Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher

2 votes, 5.3%

Kingston Cycle by C.L. Polk

2 votes, 5.3%

GameWorld Trilogy by Samit Basu

1 vote, 2.6%

Stariel series by A.J. Lancaster

0 votes, 0.0%

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