Brian Biswas
@brianbiswas.bsky.social
Fiction writer. Author of the novel The Astronomer, and the short story collections Blister and Other Stories and A Betrayal and Other Stories.
Website: http://brianbiswas.com/
Website: http://brianbiswas.com/
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Brian Biswas
@brianbiswas.bsky.social
· Jan 9
The Astronomer by Brian Biswas | BookLife
Franz Herbert suffers from epileptic seizures; are they a curse that takes him away from his wife, family, and friends, or a gift that allows him to explore the depths of the cosmos?
An exploration o...
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Shortlisted for Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize in General Fiction (2024).
"Biswas is a master storyteller who pulls the reader into a journey of epic proportions." ~ BookLife Prize
"Biswas is a master storyteller who pulls the reader into a journey of epic proportions." ~ BookLife Prize
12 short stories that paint a portrait of modern India that shimmers with psychological complexity, spirit, and wisdom. Jeyamohan is considered one of India’s finest authors writing today. This is his first work to be published in English.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
12 short stories that paint a portrait of modern India that shimmers with psychological complexity, spirit, and wisdom. Jeyamohan is considered one of India’s finest authors writing today. This is his first work to be published in English.
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“The reality of where you are is always more important than the ideal of where you imagine you should be.”
—Jeff Warren
Words of wisdom. Perfectionists: please heed this!
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—Jeff Warren
Words of wisdom. Perfectionists: please heed this!
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November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“The reality of where you are is always more important than the ideal of where you imagine you should be.”
—Jeff Warren
Words of wisdom. Perfectionists: please heed this!
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity #amwriting
—Jeff Warren
Words of wisdom. Perfectionists: please heed this!
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity #amwriting
“The ocean doesn't complain about the dance of ten million waves; so don't be concerned with the rise and fall of thoughts.”
—Papaji
Writers need to remember this when our minds lead us hither and thither. Don’t panic. Resolution will come.
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—Papaji
Writers need to remember this when our minds lead us hither and thither. Don’t panic. Resolution will come.
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity #amwriting
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“The ocean doesn't complain about the dance of ten million waves; so don't be concerned with the rise and fall of thoughts.”
—Papaji
Writers need to remember this when our minds lead us hither and thither. Don’t panic. Resolution will come.
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity #amwriting
—Papaji
Writers need to remember this when our minds lead us hither and thither. Don’t panic. Resolution will come.
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity #amwriting
Interesting article from today’s The New York Times Book Review on Philip Pullman’s latest.
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Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close
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November 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Interesting article from today’s The New York Times Book Review on Philip Pullman’s latest.
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#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity #amwriting
October 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I’ve just set up an author newsletter. This is a new venture for me. I’ll send something out a few times a year: recent publications, events, thoughts on the writing life. And giveaways.
Subscribe by going here:
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Love to have you aboard!
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Subscribe by going here:
brian-biswas.kit.com
Love to have you aboard!
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October 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I’ve just set up an author newsletter. This is a new venture for me. I’ll send something out a few times a year: recent publications, events, thoughts on the writing life. And giveaways.
Subscribe by going here:
brian-biswas.kit.com
Love to have you aboard!
#books #booksky #writingcommunity
Subscribe by going here:
brian-biswas.kit.com
Love to have you aboard!
#books #booksky #writingcommunity
If you like suspense and noir movies from the 40s and 50s, give this one a try. A young woman is auditioning with Hitchcock for his new movie. Lots of info about the seamy side of Hollywood during the days leading up to World War II (blacklisting).
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October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you like suspense and noir movies from the 40s and 50s, give this one a try. A young woman is auditioning with Hitchcock for his new movie. Lots of info about the seamy side of Hollywood during the days leading up to World War II (blacklisting).
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
In my book, LeVar Burton is a hero. I don’t know anyone who has done more to promote literacy and a love of reading. Way to go, LeVar!
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LeVar Burton Named ABA’s Indie Bookstore Ambassador
As the American Booksellers Association's Indie Bookstore Ambassador for 2025-2026, Burton will champion independent booksellers, especially on Small Business Saturday on November 29 and Independent B...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
In my book, LeVar Burton is a hero. I don’t know anyone who has done more to promote literacy and a love of reading. Way to go, LeVar!
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If you’re looking to get into Gene Wolfe, may I suggest starting with this. A brilliant collection of short stories (a couple are novella length) each picked out by Wolfe himself. Start with the first and read them all. His range is amazing. 5 stars.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
If you’re looking to get into Gene Wolfe, may I suggest starting with this. A brilliant collection of short stories (a couple are novella length) each picked out by Wolfe himself. Start with the first and read them all. His range is amazing. 5 stars.
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#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
I often figure out writing problems when I don’t consciously try to figure them out. I go on a walk instead and, voila, a solution pops into my head. This has happened too often to be mere coincidence. Relaxing the mind seems to allow creativity to flow.
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September 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I often figure out writing problems when I don’t consciously try to figure them out. I go on a walk instead and, voila, a solution pops into my head. This has happened too often to be mere coincidence. Relaxing the mind seems to allow creativity to flow.
#writingcommunity #amwriting
#writingcommunity #amwriting
“I’d rather be happy being myself, than sad trying to please everyone else.”
—Jermaine Cole
The applies to what I choose to write about as well.
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—Jermaine Cole
The applies to what I choose to write about as well.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“I’d rather be happy being myself, than sad trying to please everyone else.”
—Jermaine Cole
The applies to what I choose to write about as well.
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity #amwriting
—Jermaine Cole
The applies to what I choose to write about as well.
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity #amwriting
Part two of my short story “The Expansion of Space” was just broadcast on the AntipodeanSF Radio show.
antisf.libsyn.com/bohrmann
(In case you missed it, here is part 1:
antisf.libsyn.com/bohmia
)
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antisf.libsyn.com/bohrmann
(In case you missed it, here is part 1:
antisf.libsyn.com/bohmia
)
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AntipodeanSF: Bohrmann
Featured on Bohrmann: The Expansion of Space - by Brian Biswas - Part Two Our Audio License by is licensed under Featured Music “Waved Oceanic Infinite Voice” - by Ovidiu Bufnila and Massimo Som...
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September 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Part two of my short story “The Expansion of Space” was just broadcast on the AntipodeanSF Radio show.
antisf.libsyn.com/bohrmann
(In case you missed it, here is part 1:
antisf.libsyn.com/bohmia
)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity
antisf.libsyn.com/bohrmann
(In case you missed it, here is part 1:
antisf.libsyn.com/bohmia
)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity
AntipodeanSF Issue 323 - Ionospherics
Now available on the intertubes with thirteen of the best in speculative flash fiction stories to read and enjoy.
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Now available on the intertubes with thirteen of the best in speculative flash fiction stories to read and enjoy.
antisf.com.au
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AntipodeanSF publishes the best short-short (flash) speculative fiction (SF, F, H) on the web.
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September 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
AntipodeanSF Issue 323 - Ionospherics
Now available on the intertubes with thirteen of the best in speculative flash fiction stories to read and enjoy.
antisf.com.au
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
Now available on the intertubes with thirteen of the best in speculative flash fiction stories to read and enjoy.
antisf.com.au
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
Originally published in Italy in 1960. A prescient parable of artificial intelligence. Can a human soul be re-created?
The Tartar Steppe is Buzzati’s‘s masterpiece, but this is quite good. Sixty years ahead of its time.
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The Tartar Steppe is Buzzati’s‘s masterpiece, but this is quite good. Sixty years ahead of its time.
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September 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Originally published in Italy in 1960. A prescient parable of artificial intelligence. Can a human soul be re-created?
The Tartar Steppe is Buzzati’s‘s masterpiece, but this is quite good. Sixty years ahead of its time.
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
The Tartar Steppe is Buzzati’s‘s masterpiece, but this is quite good. Sixty years ahead of its time.
#books #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
My short story The Expansion of Space (part one) was broadcast today on the Antipodian Speculative Fiction radio program. Part two will be next week.
This is excerpted from a novel in progress, Initial Conditions.
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This is excerpted from a novel in progress, Initial Conditions.
2nvr.org.au/playlist/boh...
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August 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My short story The Expansion of Space (part one) was broadcast today on the Antipodian Speculative Fiction radio program. Part two will be next week.
This is excerpted from a novel in progress, Initial Conditions.
2nvr.org.au/playlist/boh...
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
This is excerpted from a novel in progress, Initial Conditions.
2nvr.org.au/playlist/boh...
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall.
An allegory for our times.
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An allegory for our times.
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August 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall.
An allegory for our times.
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An allegory for our times.
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If you find yourself in Durham, North Carolina … *signed* copies of my novel The Astronomer are available at the New Hope Commons Barnes and Noble.
Shortlisted for Publishers Weekly BookLife Priza (General Fiction, 2024).
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Shortlisted for Publishers Weekly BookLife Priza (General Fiction, 2024).
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August 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If you find yourself in Durham, North Carolina … *signed* copies of my novel The Astronomer are available at the New Hope Commons Barnes and Noble.
Shortlisted for Publishers Weekly BookLife Priza (General Fiction, 2024).
#books #booksky #fiction #writingcommunity
Shortlisted for Publishers Weekly BookLife Priza (General Fiction, 2024).
#books #booksky #fiction #writingcommunity
First two novels by the Nigerian fantasy writer Amos Tutvola (published in 1952 and 1954). Both are considered tops in that genre. I must say, I’ve never read anything like them. It’s as if Tutuola invented his own syntax. And it grows on you.
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August 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
First two novels by the Nigerian fantasy writer Amos Tutvola (published in 1952 and 1954). Both are considered tops in that genre. I must say, I’ve never read anything like them. It’s as if Tutuola invented his own syntax. And it grows on you.
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Reposted by Brian Biswas
That said, if you have a wealthy and benevolent family member looking to support independent arts, please let us know. Books cost money to write and produce and especially to SHIP. And I'm working as many jobs as I can.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
That said, if you have a wealthy and benevolent family member looking to support independent arts, please let us know. Books cost money to write and produce and especially to SHIP. And I'm working as many jobs as I can.
Reposted by Brian Biswas
It's time to quote this again. We need (your) (anticorporate) literature now. Listen to Dan.
I understand the feeling of hopelessness, but the book is not a product. It’s art, and the making of art is meaningful and human and an act of subversion in an inhumane world. We need books more than ever.
is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me
August 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It's time to quote this again. We need (your) (anticorporate) literature now. Listen to Dan.
And let me add a couple:
1.) When you think you’re done, read what you’ve written aloud. You’ll find you’re at the halfway point.
2.) A fictional work should be 20% writing and 80% editing. At least that’s the way it’s always been in my case.
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1.) When you think you’re done, read what you’ve written aloud. You’ll find you’re at the halfway point.
2.) A fictional work should be 20% writing and 80% editing. At least that’s the way it’s always been in my case.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
August 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
And let me add a couple:
1.) When you think you’re done, read what you’ve written aloud. You’ll find you’re at the halfway point.
2.) A fictional work should be 20% writing and 80% editing. At least that’s the way it’s always been in my case.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
1.) When you think you’re done, read what you’ve written aloud. You’ll find you’re at the halfway point.
2.) A fictional work should be 20% writing and 80% editing. At least that’s the way it’s always been in my case.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
GENE WOLFE: WRITERLY ADVICE
5.) Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.
(If you don’t do this, you’ll find yourself wandering hither and thither.)
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5.) Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.
(If you don’t do this, you’ll find yourself wandering hither and thither.)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
August 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
GENE WOLFE: WRITERLY ADVICE
5.) Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.
(If you don’t do this, you’ll find yourself wandering hither and thither.)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
5.) Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.
(If you don’t do this, you’ll find yourself wandering hither and thither.)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
GENE WOLFE'S TOP FIVE PIECES OF WRITERLY ADVICE
4.) You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.
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4.) You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
GENE WOLFE'S TOP FIVE PIECES OF WRITERLY ADVICE
4.) You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
4.) You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
GENE WOLFE: WRITERLY ADVICE
3.) Remember that it is characterizing that puts your story heads and shoulders over the others in the slush pile.
(Now, that’s not always true—Asimov, PKD, for whom plots usually predominate—but it almost always is.)
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3.) Remember that it is characterizing that puts your story heads and shoulders over the others in the slush pile.
(Now, that’s not always true—Asimov, PKD, for whom plots usually predominate—but it almost always is.)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
August 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
GENE WOLFE: WRITERLY ADVICE
3.) Remember that it is characterizing that puts your story heads and shoulders over the others in the slush pile.
(Now, that’s not always true—Asimov, PKD, for whom plots usually predominate—but it almost always is.)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
3.) Remember that it is characterizing that puts your story heads and shoulders over the others in the slush pile.
(Now, that’s not always true—Asimov, PKD, for whom plots usually predominate—but it almost always is.)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting
GENE WOLFE'S WRITERLY ADVICE
2.) Read what you're trying to write, for Godsakes! (Don't read enormous fantasy series if you're trying to write short stories.)
I’d add:
Read extensively in your genre, yes, but read other genres as well. You learn from them all.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity
2.) Read what you're trying to write, for Godsakes! (Don't read enormous fantasy series if you're trying to write short stories.)
I’d add:
Read extensively in your genre, yes, but read other genres as well. You learn from them all.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity
August 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
GENE WOLFE'S WRITERLY ADVICE
2.) Read what you're trying to write, for Godsakes! (Don't read enormous fantasy series if you're trying to write short stories.)
I’d add:
Read extensively in your genre, yes, but read other genres as well. You learn from them all.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity
2.) Read what you're trying to write, for Godsakes! (Don't read enormous fantasy series if you're trying to write short stories.)
I’d add:
Read extensively in your genre, yes, but read other genres as well. You learn from them all.
#books #booksky #writingcommunity