I learned how to use a knife on a hot, wet Thursday night.

This is what happens when you create a time paradox. You get mashed by space-time forces.

In most versions of “Little Red Riding Hood,” after all, the wolf is eventually split open. Manickavel’s work joins a range of contemporary fantasy writers not in subverting the original, but in lingering upon this late aspect of the tale.

After enjoying Murad & Shurin’s first anthology, The Djinn Falls in Love, I was primed to enjoy The Outcast Hours.

All original fiction published by Strange Horizons in 2018: 47 stories including five novelettes and over two hundred thousand words of undiluted awesomeness.

This week, Strange Horizons is thrilled to present a special issue showcasing recent work by and about science fiction and fantasy writers from India.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Supriya Nair reading Kuzhali Manickavel's “Things That Happened While We Waited For Our Magical Grandmother to Die—No. 39.” https://strangehorizons.podbean.com/mf/web/ge2ja8/Strange-Horizons-20180430-f-Manickavel.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

The Djinn Falls in Love is not merely a collection of djinn stories, but a collection which explores the difficulty of empathic understanding between two sorts of beings alien to one another.

I'm going to talk a little bit about the work of Kuzhali Manickavel.

Readers of the Apex Book of World SF series need not worry about the choices made by the new hand at the wheel. Mahvesh Murad knows the art of compiling a truly unforgettable collection.