“Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed — strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-…

Coming very soon: open call for submissions for Vol 2 of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF. As last time (and always), no commissioned work, no pre-approved guest list, fully open call, and blind review. Watch this space!

Read an extract from the anthology, PALESTINE - 1: STORIES FROM THE EVE OF THE NAKBA (Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow), edited by Basma Ghalayini. 'I Swear, This All Happened' is a magical realist short story by Liana Badr, translated by Maisa Almanasreh. buff.ly/ZUnJTWn

Today I feel Crystal Palatian.

Indian speculative fiction evolved through Bengali "kalpavigyan" and post-Independence "scientifiction." Today, as this piece shows, Indian SF is finding its voice anew—bridging caste with universal storytelling. By Gautam Bhatia in Alter Magazine buff.ly/id4vHJR

forgot to say - taap auf d tabul

Transformative Constitutionalism and Kenya: Law-making, Political Process, and the State (2010 – 2025) by Gautam Bhatia How Kenyan courts have used the 2010 Constitution to tame imperial presidencies, shape devolution, protect rights, and offer fresh answers to global

It’s the first Monday of December, so here’s a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant. feat. reading Patti Smith, the Alastair Reynolds backlist, new writing on tropes in modern SFF media, and more. Link in tweet below. 👇🏼

Words for Worlds - Issue 109: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-wo… As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this in your inbox fortnightly.

New book review: on Patti Smith’s Just Kids (link in tweet below). 👇🏼

“To be loyal, yet free” — anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/to-…

This is a great book. 👇🏼