An independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Indian pulp novels in translation, ghostlore, anti-caste sf, graphic novels, street signs, weird stories, & picture books about young women in love with gruesome monsters.
https://blaft.com
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Congrats to @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for her Ignyte nomination!!
Read "Ichthyosis" at Psychopomp
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Read her short story "Salt Slough" in BANDIGOAT
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This book is ON SALE through the end of June!
Paperback: 20% off w/ code ACSFPB20
Hardcover: 30% off w/ ACSFHC30
Ebook: 40% off w/ ACSFEBOOK40
With a stellar introduction by R.T. Samuel and stories by Bama, Gogu Shyamala, V Chandrasekhar Rao, Gouri, & many more
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Congrats to @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for her Ignyte nomination!!
Read "Ichthyosis" at Psychopomp
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Read her short story "Salt Slough" in BANDIGOAT
www.blaft.com/products/ban...
Pith.Bull is part of this show coming up June 19 in Bengaluru at Venkatappa Art Gallery! Must visit!
Check our their zines in our store:
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Back then, it had been in Tamil—get lost you donkey, look at your face, stupid monkey face. Now everything was in English. Now it was about money, fuck and motherfucking assholes, I’m sick, I don’t know what to do, I’m tired, I’m so fucking tired all the time.
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Want to purchase a copy of Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING and support one of Bengaluru's coolest indie bookshops?
Find it at Champaca Bookstore (or on their website):
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Includes typography walking tour maps of Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi & Mumbai!
The Kumari Loves a Monster reprint is in!
Now we have to track down Shyam to get him to sign copies for Kickstarter backers. The man is constantly travelling...
OK let's try fighting piracy with sale prices!
20% off the paperback edition w/ discount code ACSFPB20
30% off the hardcover w/ ACSFHC30
40% off the ebook w/ ACSFEBOOK40
Get your copy of THE BLAFT BOOK ANTI-CASTE SF
Dalit futurism, magical realism, cyberhorror &&&&
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According to the famous Mizo myth of Chawngmawii & Hrangchhuana, this planetary conjunction augurs a good time for lovers' trysts 😘
(It's a colourful romantic thawnthu. Hrangchhuana gets caught, old ladies piss on his face to shame him, and then his head gets cut off)
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That evening, we check on the dragon. We look at his faded claws and run our fingers across the duct tape on his mouth. We decide he hasn’t learned his lesson.
from Saint Diesel
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An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora. edited by R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. cover art by...
India’s cityscapes are a typography lover’s paradise. Take a short walk in any urban neighbourhood and you’ll find signboards in a riot of languages, styles, materials, and colours, spanning decades o...
short fiction by Kuzhali Manickavel 200 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 300 g Paperback ISBN: 9789380636177 Things We Found During the Autopsy is South Indian writer Kuzhali Manickavel's second collection of sho...
An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora. edited by R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. cover art by...
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Keep hearing about unis all over India where THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF is on the syllabus
But everybody pirates it
Listen, I get it. Students don't have money.
But maybe uni bookstores could stock a few copies? Profs could chip in?
HarperCollins is owned by Murdochs. We are not. C'mon guys
Don't forget to watch for Jupiter and Venus together after sunset! On June 9 they'll be very close but even now it's good. Look west after sunset. If it's clear you can't miss them lowish to the horizon. Venus is very bright.
