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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...

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is coming in December. Book your copy now!

Manickavel's been honing her collage-art skills, and she's back with a stylish, surrealist, queer af little zine offering advice on how to deal with an eclectic ensemble of eldritch entities. With a title paying tribute to a Vadivelu meme and interior pages remixing Kollywood item numbers, Wil Hulsey animal-attack pulp covers, fish heads, and assorted marsupials, "You Go Man, Why Me?" is the perfect paranormal pamphlet to impress your friends, perplex your parents, and subdue your supernatural foes. Buy now!      

This month we took a trip to Ahmedabad, where we met with veteran pulp authors H.N. Golibar, Bansidhar Shukla, and Ekta Doshi, all of whom will be featured in our Gujarati Pulp Fiction anthology, scheduled for December. The highlight for us was learning about the history of the Gujarati magazine and pop culture institution Chakram Chandan--founded as "Chakram" in 1949 by N.J.Golibar, a member of Ahmedabad's Kutchi Memon Muslim community. Before getting into publishing, the senior Golibar began his career selling sweets known as "Goli"; he got his name from his hawker cry, "Ek anna, goli bar" (12 golis for 1 anna). A...

This anthology is an attempt to collect the forays into anti-caste speculative fiction that have already been made, as well as to encourage new ones: works of SF that take an anti-caste stance and launch it into the future, outer space, the lairs of nightmarish monsters, or bizarre solarpunk dreamscapes.