In 2007, Basu also wrote notable graphic stories with Virgin Comics (now Liquid Comics), including the Devi series beginning with #3: Namaha, and The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma: Panchatantra. Book two in the GameWorld trilogy, The Manticore’s Secret, came out in 2005 and book three, The Unwaba Revelations, followed in 2007. Marketed as “Monty Python meets the Ramayana,” among other things, it was an immediate national bestseller in India, and ultimately garnered praise at venues such as The Telegraph and Locus. He earned a degree in economics at Presidency College and completed a course in broadcasting and documentary filmmaking at the University of Westminster in London.īasu’s debut novel, The Simoqin Prophecies, “India’s first ever SFF (science fiction/fantasy) genre novel in English,” was published by Penguin India in 2004. Samit Basu was born and raised in Kolkata in West Bengal, India.
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