Sami Ahmad Khan

• Science Fiction (with emphasis on India’s anglophone SF)
• Speculative Fiction  
• Creative Writing

Bio-note: Sami Ahmad Khan is a writer, academic, and documentary producer. He is the recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship (University of Oslo, Norway), a Fulbright FLTA grant (University of Iowa, USA), and a UGC-SAP and MANF Senior Research Fellowship (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India). He holds a PhD in Indian Science Fiction from JNU, has worked as an assistant features producer for All India Radio, and has taught at the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), Jindal Global University, and GGS Indraprastha University. His future-war thriller Red Jihad won two awards [NBT India s National Debut Youth Fiction Award (co-winner) and Muse India Young Writer Award (runners-up)]. His second novel, Aliens in Delhi, garnered good reviews and was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. His fiction has been the subject of formal academic research and a part of university syllabi in India and the US. His overview of Indian SF has been translated into Czech and his short story has been translated into Marathi. His creative and critical writings have appeared in leading academic journals (Science Fiction Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, Foundation), university presses (MIT Press, University of Wales Press), and trade imprints (Gollancz, Hachette, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Rupa, Juggernaut, Niyogi). His latest book is the critically-acclaimed Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction, which was longlisted for the BSFA Award (non-fiction). Sami currently discusses life, society, and science fiction at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.