Science fiction writer Samit Basu discusses his new novel 'Chosen Spirits', about a future world that is a scarier reflection of our own Publishing your book in the middle of a pandemic lockdown may not be ideal, but given the subject matter of Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (Simon & Schuster India, Rs499), it seems quite apt.
Basu is a popular writer of science fiction and fantasy books like the Gameworld Trilogy and Turbulence, as well as the Netflix film House Arrest, but his new novel is very different.
It’s less speculative fiction and more caustic investigation of the times we live in. Set in an India just a decade from now, Chosen Spirits is about a world where technology and religious bigotry combine with near-total corporate control