Samit Basu

Samit Basu

Samit Basu is an Indian novelist and screenwriter. The Simoqin Prophecies, published in 2003, was the first book in the bestselling Gameworld Trilogy and marked the beginning of Indian English fantasy writing. The other books in the trilogy are The Manticore’s Secret and The Unwaba Revelations.

Samit was born in Calcutta and he obtained a degree in Economics. The Simoqin Prophecies, Basu's first novel, was written when he was 22 and published when he was 23. The GameWorld trilogy has been widely well reviewed and all three books have reached Indian best-seller lists. In 2010, Basu wrote a YA novel called Terror on the Titanic. His next famous work Turbulence introduced him to the West. It also won a Wired Geekdad Goldenbot Award and appeared at no.2 on the list of hot new Amazon Science Fiction titles on the week of its release. Basu is also known as a columnist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist writing on travel, film, books and pop culture.

Basu’s work in comics ranges from historical romance to zombie comedy, and includes diverse collaborators, from X-Men/Felix Castor writer Mike Carey to Terry Gilliam and Duran Duran. His latest GN, Local Monsters, was published in 2013.