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A lot has happened since our last post. Some of the news is sad. We lost two people who were an important part of Blaft's publishing journey right from the very beginning. In September, Natesh Muthswamy passed away. He was an incredible artist with raucously weird ideas. He painted tigermen experiencing colourful epiphanies, wrote bizarre screeds about evolution and technology, and designed brilliant lighting for some excellent theatre plays. We fell in love particularly with his line drawings, like this one: When we launched Blaft in 2008, one of our first 3 books was a collection of these drawings, called when this key...

R.T. Samuel and I were talking Betals/Vetals today (bc two stories in the Anti-Caste SF collection reference the Vikram & Vetal story) and I was telling them how murky the origin of the Vetal myth is, like he probably started out as a tribal protector god from the Konkan coast who you worship by offering dirty footwear, but there's also a Betal temple in Kumaon and Mahavetal legends from Tibet & a lot of other crazy lore about these corpse-occupying bloodthirsty spirits. And then I thought, maybe it's time for a flash sale... 25% off this week on GHOSTS, MONSTERS,...

Thank you all for making our Kickstarter for The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF such an amazing success! We raised $19,437 and counting for production costs and contributing authors. You can still make "late pledges" for paperback or hardcover, ebooks, or signed copies. You can also donate copies to the Free Libraries Network. Or, you can pre-order the book from the Blaft website! *** Today, we're publishing an interview with Rohith, who has translated a story by Telugu author V. Chandrashekar Rao for the upcoming anthology.   Rohith   What sorts of genre fiction exist in Telugu? Is science fiction...

Our Kickstarter campaign for THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF is in its final week! We've raised over $12,500 from nearly 400 backers--enough to unlock a couple of stretch goals--and we're hoping to unlock a few more. If you haven't reserved a copy yet, please make a pledge, or help by spreading the word! The book will be out in December. One of the contributors is Kunal Lokhande , the author of the short comic "Sanatan Gaming". He's interviewed here by Anti-Caste SF editor R.T. Samuel.   Speculating on Anti-Caste Horizons Kunal Lokhande, in conversation with R.T. Samuel   KL: I'm...