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Lavanya Lakshminarayan
@lavanya.bsky.social
Author: INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF | THE TEN PERCENT THIEF

Arthur C Clarke Award Finalist | Locus Award Finalist

Game Designer

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INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF is out today in the US/North America + India/South Asia!

It’s the Great British Baking Show in space… and more! 🍩🚀

I’m super excited to be sharing this book with you, and delighted by the all love it’s already received.

A 🧵 with all my gratitude 💜
✨I’ll be at the Singapore Writers’ Festival next weekend ✨

I’m on two amazing panels in some brilliant company, and I can’t wait to see you there!

Panel deets below 👾
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Out next month in paperback, @rainewilson.bsky.social 's BSFA Longlisted WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST!

Here's what @lavanya.bsky.social @bingewriting.bsky.social @naomikritzer.bsky.social @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social and more think...

Preorder; geni.us/weallghostsPB
October 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
✨It’s a steal ✨

Pre order INTERGALACTIC FEAST at a 25% discount at Waterstones online 🍩🚀

www.waterstones.com/book/interga...

More food, more shenanigans a la Serenity Ko, Saras and Kili… and tons of dastardly plans for the future of food 👀

Out Spring 2026 from @solarisbooks.bsky.social !
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
INTERGALACTIC FEAST is now on NetGalley, in some fabulous @solarisbooks.bsky.social company!

It has more food, more shenanigans a la Serenity Ko, Saras and Kili… and tons of plotty, dastardly plans for the future of food 👀

If you liked Interstellar MegaChef, you know what to do!
Now on Netgalley: 3 spectacular SciFi Titles for Spring 2026...

🪐 THE MANY: a new standalone from @neuvel.net!
🌍 THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley: the queen of literary spec fic returns
🍩 INTERGALACTIC FEAST: @lavanya.bsky.social's FLAVOUR HACKER duology concludes

geni.us/SolarisNG
October 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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This was a month of cool sci-fi reads. 💙📚🪐

TTPT @lavanya.bsky.social
UECO @williamjadams3.bsky.social
RLH @eirabrand.com

Reviews for the first two are already up on Before We Go Blog.

RUN LIKE HELL should be live on FanFiAddict sometime next week.
August 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The lovely folks over at @scifinow.bsky.social have revealed the cover for my new novel, INTERGALACTIC FEAST 🍩🚀

Go check it out!

It’s gorgeous, and it’s all thanks to Sam Gretton and the amazing team at @solarisbooks.bsky.social — thank you all so much 💜
Our friends at SciFiNow have revealed Sam Gretton's out-of-this-world cover for INTERGALACTIC FEAST, the second book in Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated @lavanya.bsky.social 's FLAVOUR HACKER duology, sequel to INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF!

Full reveal: bit.ly/4gBiOSg
Preorder: geni.us/intergfeast
September 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Tomorrow!

Can’t wait to hang out with Frasier and Paige, and celebrate the launch of the delightful CAGE OF STARS by @frasierarmitage.bsky.social !

See you there 👾
September 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Genre rules are only guidelines anyway!

Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?

We've got all that and more!

1/3
August 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Next stop: intercontinental adventure ✈️

After months of planning, near-cancellations and last-minute scares, we’re all set to catch our flight tonight.

Soon, Paris 💜✨
August 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Brilliant to see @lavanya.bsky.social 's INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF on @bookriot.bsky.social 's list of Six Immersive New Space Operas!

What if #gbbo took place in space, with a dash of the diaspora experience & a seasoning of sapphic romance?!

bookriot.com/immersive-ne...

geni.us/Megachef
6 Immersive New Space Operas
You’ll find a novel human evolution in 1,000s of years, a planetary time travel/Regency romance, and an intergalactic cooking competition
bookriot.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thrilled to see INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF on this fabulous new list from Book Riot 🌈✨

Thank you Addison Rizer and @bookriot.bsky.social for including my work in such phenomenal company!

Everyone go get all the books! Pack a snack and enjoy the read 🍩🚀

bookriot.com/immersive-ne...
6 Immersive New Space Operas
You’ll find a novel human evolution in 1,000s of years, a planetary time travel/Regency romance, and an intergalactic cooking competition
bookriot.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This sounds incredible, and I’m hungry already! I can’t wait to read what @elianeboey.bsky.social is cooking 👀
Thinking about "elevated" hawker food🤔 and remembering the delight that is @lavanya.bsky.social's "Interstellar Megachef". *cough* If you liked that, I'll have something for you early '27. With a bit of space labour economics because #niche. And cosy kopitiams. Much fun. @starsandsabers.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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11) The Ten Percent Thief by @lavanya.bsky.social

This is a great example of a mosaic novel that holds together really well, even as, for most of the book, each chapter is its own self-contained story. Each story gave me a character I cared about and another lens onto the book's dystopian world.
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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New pinned. Family photo of CLUB CONTANGO (mystery novel, single mum "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with gangs, clubs, and gloves off) and OTHER MINDS (technoir novellas: one for the TRON, "Infernal Affairs" and Sphere fans), pubbed by Dark Matter INK 🛒 bookshop.org, blackwells.co.uk, kinokuniya.com.sg
August 7, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I feel ashamed of myself for even posting this and asking, but I need the help to take some of the stress and pressure away - me and my husband, and our three beautiful dogs, are hoping that you can help raise emergency funds to try and find a new house.

gofund.me/061cd1b4
Donate to Help to Avoid Homelessness, organized by Amanda Rutter
My name is Amanda, and me and my husband, Dan, have just been served a Section 21 notice on t… Amanda Rutter needs your support for Help to Avoid Homelessness
gofund.me
August 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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"Analògics contra virtuals"

📖 Ressenya de "La lladre del deu per cent", distopia futurista de Lavanya Lakshminarayan, primera dona índia finalista del premi Arthur C. Clarke, traduïda al català per @chronoscat.bsky.social
@lavanya.bsky.social

🔗 tuit.cat/idzb8
August 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Congratulations and happy US book day @tashanmehta.bsky.social ! 🥳💜

MAD SISTERS OF ESI is a wondrous, beautiful book. I had the pleasure of reading an ARC (and chatting with Tashan about ESI at a ton of events), and every word shines with her brilliance.

You’ve got to go read it NOW! I
It’sss pub day! MAD SISTERS OF ESI is now out in the US and Canada.

To celebrate, Alap and I took a series of truly ridiculous photos at Brooklyn Bridge Park. My baby* is now in New York!

(*Technically an ARC of my baby. The final is a beautiful, beautiful hardcover.)
August 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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If you're in the UK and want to read about a young witch who teaches her mother magic.

And about the fight against transphobia and queerphobia, going back CENTURIES.

And about families, both birth families and chosen families, and how we save and forgive each other.

You have until *tomorrow*.
UK readers! Amazing news!

Waterstones has selected Lessons in Magic and Disaster to be part of its #WPreorder campaign.

From today thru July 31, you can get 25 percent off your pre-order of Lessons by using the code SUMMER25 at checkout on the website or app.

www.waterstones.com/book/lessons...
July 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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We are delighted to reveal the cover for @victormanibo.com's The Villa, Once Beloved, a haunting gothic about folklore, family, and postcolonial vengeance in the Philippines...

reactormag.com/cover-reveal...
Revealing The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo - Reactor
A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in a new gothic horror arriving November 2025
reactormag.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I’m midway through copy edits on the sequel to Interstellar MegaChef, and I just stumbled upon two punctuation tweaks that have completely elevated a sentence.

So this is me taking a moment to shout from the rooftops that @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social is an extraordinary editor, and…
July 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Sail through endless skies, Ozzy 💔

music.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sV...
Planet Caravan (2009 Remaster)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic
music.youtube.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
It’s pouring rain outside, so I brought the sun indoors 🌤️

From galaxy hair to neon pink, lavender fades, inky natural black (which is actually deep brown in sunlight), rich purples, and jagged pixies and bobs—I’ve tried nearly everything short of shaving it off (now, that’s a thought, isn’t it?).
July 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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What a fantastic find! 🌟 INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF sounds like a delicious mix of flavors and love! Can't wait to dive into these queer SFF gems! 📚💖 #StillProud #QueerSFF
Apropos of nothing (/s)…

Here are some incredible queer SFF reads in Solaris’ #StillProud ebook sale!

Feat. INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF at just 0.99 if you want Star Trek X MasterChef with a side of sapphic romance set in a queernorm future 🌈

Go get ‘em all!

geni.us/Solarissale
July 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Spotted INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF at the airport in Mumbai! 🌈

I’m half asleep and exhausted after a packed (but excellent) few days in the city, but also delighted to see this book of mine on the shelf.

Signed copies at Crossword if you’re passing through Mumbai International Airport, Terminal 1 🍩✨
July 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Apropos of nothing (/s)…

Here are some incredible queer SFF reads in Solaris’ #StillProud ebook sale!

Feat. INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF at just 0.99 if you want Star Trek X MasterChef with a side of sapphic romance set in a queernorm future 🌈

Go get ‘em all!

geni.us/Solarissale
July 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM