Samit Basu, novelist, screenwriter, writer of comics and local monster, talks about his latest book Turbulence and writing among other things.
You wear the crown of India’s first SFF genre writer. Eight years down the line, how do you feel with that title on your head?
Ambivalent. It’s not a crown in particular, and I don’t particularly believe in book categories. I don’t see myself as a genre writer – if I did, I would be a writer in many genres, because I’ve written several kinds of stories in several media. I love fantasy books, and I’m very happy that my first three novels were fantasy, and I’m sure I’ll write more fantasy, but I’m not waving a fantasy flag. Turbulence isn’t even being called a fantasy novel – it’s as mainstream as mainstream can be, especially given the way that mainstream culture has shifted in the last decade. I didn’t even know that fantasy books were treated differently until I wrote one. So you can have the crown, if you like.
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