Since his first novel Escape from Baghdad in 2015, he’s published only a handful of works, most of which share a uniquely original vision of a post-labor late 21st century in which municipalities have become AI-managed corporations, airborne self-regenerating nanoparticles protect the population from toxic environments, and some highly irritable djinns have re-emerged into a world in which godlike AIs seem to challenge even their supernatural powers. There certainly seems to be an upsurge in the availability of South Asian SFF, though, not only in anthologies but in the increasingly prominent work of writers such as Vandana Singh, Usman T. Of course, “renaissance” might sound a bit grandiose or even misleading, since arguably fantastic tales in South Asian literature predate any notions of genre by several centuries. Hossain has emerged as one of the most distinctive new voices in SF, earning comparisons to everyone from Joseph Heller to Quentin Tarantino, and as a major figure in an apparent renaissance in South Asian SF (see the next two books under review). In a remarkably short period, the Bangladeshi author Saad Z.
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