authors featured in the Big Sky Library
See also separate Asia-specific, general speculative fiction and non-fiction anthology listings, plus
Magazines & Webzines, Academic Journals & Fanzines, Non-fiction and Reviews.
Forthcoming new publications and translations...
Recent activity... since 1 August 2021
Bibliographies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
August 2021
Sage Alfar | Lokenath Bhattacharya | Jasbinder Bilan | Takuji Ichikawa | Joshua Kam | Minsoo Kang | Sōshi Kawasaki |
Sami Ahmad Khan | Zaiul Moid Khan | Tsugiko Kubo | M. J. Kuhn | S. Qiouyi Lu | Thomas Mann | A. G. Marshall |
Saleema Nawaz | E. Hoffmann Price | Amanda Sun | Steven Sy | Rabi Thapa | Wang Jinkang | Yudhanjaya Wijeratne |
September 2021
Ryka Aoki | Ven Begamudré | Lawrence Block | Rivka Galchen | Hwang Jungeun | Daphne Lee | Kai-Fu Lee |
Asia-specific anthologies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
August 2021
3 Rays: Stories from Satyajit Ray | Demons of the New Year | Diaspora Ad Astra | Future Adventures of the Greater Bay Area |
Kizuna: Fiction for Japan | Shadow People
September 2021
Be Me: LGBTQIA+ Stories of Belonging | The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2 |
Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion | Remang: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales | Singa-Pura-Pura
General anthologies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
August 2021
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy | Missions from the Extinction Cycle, Volume 1 | Mohs 5.5: Megastructures |
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
September 2021
In This Desert, There Were Seeds | Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
Non-fiction added: [ See earlier additions... ]
August 2021
The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction | Star Warriors of the Modern Raj
September 2021
Alternative Dystopia: Science, Power and Fundamentalism in Rimi B. Chatterjee's Signal Red
Reviews added: [ See a complete list of reviews... ]
The Great and Not-So-Secret Short Fiction Project... [ See earlier additions... ]
...to index all magazines, webzines, fanzines and academic journals that feature genre fiction (plus essays and interviews) either from Asian writers or others with interests in Asian speculative fiction.
August 2021
Added issue #2 of State of Matter that features fiction.
Added issues #74, #75 & #77 of Abyss & Apex that feature fiction and poetry.
Added issue #7 of Bull Spec that features fiction, essays, interviews and poetry.
Added issue #1 of ParSec that features fiction, essays and an interview.
Added issue #267 of Interzone that features fiction, essays and interviews.
Added issue #1 of Big Sky that features essays.
Added 6 issues of The White Notebooks that feature essays.
Added 9 issues of Big Echo that feature fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
September 2021
Added issue #3 of State of Matter that features poetry.
Added issue #143 of Lofgeornost that features an essay.
Current reading / audiobooks...
The True Queen
2019
Novel
Recorded Books Audio
ISBN 978-1-501-94997-5
Audiobook
Narrated by Jenny Sterlin
The Thirty Names of Night
2020
Novel
Atria Books
ISBN 978-1-9821-2149-5
Hardcover, 291 pages
The Big Sky Library is being developed on an ongoing basis as a bibliographic resource for all speculative fiction available in English from and about Asia and the Asian diaspora.
Based in Liverpool, England, the library currently holds well over 1,500 titles. While it functions as a private collection, it is accessible for research purposes and enquiries are always welcome.
Tarun K. Saint, ed.
New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction
2021
Anthology
Gollancz
ISBN 978-1-952086-06-9
B-format paperback, xli+375 pages
Various translators
The Eye
1930
Short fiction chapbook
Penguin
ISBN 978-0-140-18482-2
B-format paperback, 87 pages
Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov
In the Watchful City
2021
Short fiction chapbook
Tordotcom
ISBN 978-1-250-79298-3
Paperback, 192 pages
The Annual Migration of Clouds
28 September 2021
Short fiction chapbook
ECW Press
ISBN 978-0-7352-6993-4
Trade paperback
$15.95
Tarun K. Saint, ed.
The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2
30 September 2021
Anthology
Hachette India
ISBN 978-93-91028-62-6
Hardcover
unknown cover price
Once More Upon a Time
5 October 2021
Novel
Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN 978-1-7282-3982-8
Hardcover, 144 pages
$12.99
Light from Uncommon Stars
28 September 2021
Novel
Tor
ISBN 978-1-250-78906-8
Hardcover, 384 pages
$25.99
Jade Fire Gold
12 October 2021
Novel
HarperTeen
ISBN 978-0-06-305636-7
Hardcover, 464 pages
£17.99
Whisper
15 October 2021
Novel
Honford Star
ISBN 978-1-9162771-6-8
B-format paperback, 294 pages
£11.99
Translated from the Chinese by Roddy Flagg
Imperial March
'Xanxia Cultivation / A Thousand Li' series
15 October 2021
Short fiction chapbook
Starlit Publishing
No ISBN
Digital
$2.99
Lovelier, Lonelier
15 October 2021
Novel
Epigram Books
ISBN 978-981-4901-36-9
Trade paperback, 496 pages
S$24.90
The Hood
'Anti-Matter of Britain' Quartet, #2
7 October 2021
Novel
Head of Zeus
ISBN 978-1-8389-3131-5
Hardcover, 516 pages
£18.99
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
19 October 2021
Novel
Tor Wildfire
ISBN 978-1-250-75941-2
Hardcover, 128 pages
$25.95