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The Simoqin Prophecies, first published in 2003 in India, was critically acclaimed and an instant bestseller. It marked the beginning of Indian fantasy writing in English. Written with consummate ease and brimming with wit and allusion, it is at once classic sff and subtle spoof, featuring scantily clad centauresses, flying carpets, pink trolls, and homicidal rabbits.

Being a Hero isn’t easy—but it’s a lot easier than being a Dark Lord.Dark forces just aren’t what they used to be. The Manticore's Secret is the spellbinding sequel to The Simoqin Prophecies and part two in the Gameworld Trilogy. Once again Samit Basu creates a mesmeric landscape bursting with weird and wonderful characters and a gripping narrative that’s complex, playful, sometimes sombre but always dazzlingly inventive. A mysterious Dark Lord and his grotesque army threaten all that is good on earth…or do they?

Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn’t have the right connections but then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod. Indeed, everyone on Aman’s flight now has extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires. Vir, an Air Force pilot, can now fly. Uzma, an aspiring Bollywood actress, now possesses infinite charisma. And then there's Jai, an indestructible one-man army with a good old-fashioned goal: to rule the world!

The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future. “They'd known the end times were...

Under the all-seeing eyes of the assembled gods, armies are on the move. The Game has begun. And when it ends, the world will end, too.... In The Unwaba Revelations, the third and concluding part of the GameWorld trilogy, a way must be found to save the world; to defeat the gods at their own game. A daunting prospect under any circumstances, made worse by the fact that the gods, who control all the heroes, are blatantly cheating by following only one rule - that they cannot be defeated by their own creations.

Several years after the events of Turbulence, when the passengers of flight BA142 from London to Delhi disembarked the plane to discover they possessed extraordinary powers linked to their innermost desires, Resistance transports the blockbuster action to New York, and introduces a brand-new cast of super-powered characters.

स्टूब उर्फ़ सुब्रतो बंदोपाध्याय कक्षा पाँच में पढ़ने वाला मस्तमौला बच्चा है जो जल्द ही कक्षा छह में जाने वाला है...

स्टूबचे शालेय जीवन इतकेही काही सोपे नव्हते. हे त्याला समजले जेव्हा त्याने एका राजकीय नेत्याच्या मुलाविरूध्द...

स्टू्बचा हा एक भयानक किस्सा,ज्यामध्ये तो एका अशा बॉलिवूड प्रोड्यूसरचा सामना करतो जो त्यांच्या शाळेच्या...

स्टूब आणि शिवानी सुट्टीमध्ये दिल्लीच्या बाहेर गेले होते पण आल्यावर त्यांना कल्पना नव्हती की नव्या वर्गात...

स्टूब अर्थात सुब्रतो बंधोपाध्यायचे पाचवीतले आयुष्य मजेत चालले आहे. पण अचानक त्याच्या शाळेचे मुख्याध्यापक...

I know I am in trouble, and I know you might not believe what I am about to tell you. But I swear that all of this is true. I could not have got out of trouble by inventing some convenient and completely believable lie, but you know I'm not like that. Okay, maybe you don't know I'm not like that, but it's true. I could have died. I could have been stranded on a galaxy a gazillion light years away from here. Worst of all, I could have been married. Anyway, this is my story.