Books by Samit Basu

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

by Samit Basu

A "Best Of" pick in BookBub | Lit Hub | Book Riot | The Mary Sue

Highly anticipated in Library Journal | Goodreads | io9 | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books | Tor.com | We Are Bookish | The Portalist

“So much fun!”–Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author

From international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure with heart that reads like a mash-up of “Aladdin” and Murderbot―with gloriously chaotic results

Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren’t helping anyone but themselves.

Lina, a daughter of failed revolutionaries, has no desire to escape Shantiport. She loves her city and would do anything to save its people. This is, in fact, the plan for her life, made before she was even born.

Her brother, Bador, is a small monkey bot with a big attitude and bigger ambitions. He wants a chance to leave this dead-end planet and explore the universe on his own terms. But that would mean abandoning the family he loves―even if they do take him for granted.

When Shantiport's resident tech billionaire coerces Lina into retrieving a powerful artifact rumored to be able to reshape reality, forces from before their time begin coalescing around the siblings. And when you throw in a piece of sentient, off-world tech with the ability to grant three wishes into the mix… None of the city's powers will know what hit them.

Also by Samit Basu
The City Inside

The Map of Lost Places Stories from Strange & Haunted Realms

by Samit Basu, Brian Keene, Rich Larson, R. L. Meza, Ai Jiang, Octavia Cade, Vivian Chou, Danian Darrell Jerry, Oliver Ferrie, Joshua Lim, Gabrielle Paniccia, Jenny Rowe

A travel guide to hauntings and the haunted, to lands with their own power, and to the communities that spring from these strange realms.

What you hold in your hands is a travel guide to the strange and surreal. From arcades along a boardwalk and jetties at the edges of tourist towns, to a rural village in Pakistan and hollows hidden deep within a forest in Pennsylvania, strange things can happen no matter where you are. You can become lost in a city crowded with people, haunted within your own home, and slip from one reality into another in the space of a step.

With twenty-two stories by authors such as Brian Keene, Maurice Broaddus, Ai Jiang, Samit Basu, and KS Walker, editors Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Conner take readers on a tour of places where weird things happen. Places where ghosts are real, old gods are hungry, and towns are not as idyllic as they appear to be.

Welcome to The Map of Lost Places. Enter at your own risk.

Includes original fiction from:

Ai Jiang

Brian Keene

Beth Dawkins

Danian Darrell Jerry

Dimitra Nikolaidou

Fatima Taqvi

Ferdison Cayetano

Gabrielle Paniccia

Jenny Rowe

Joshua Lim

K.S. Walker

Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv

Maurice Broaddus

Muhammed Awal Ahmed

Octavia Cade

Oliver Ferrie

R.L. Meza

Rebecca E. Treasure

Rich Larson

Samit Basu

VH Ncube

Vivian Chou

With an introduction from Linda D. Addisona