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OUT NOW: Interstellar MegaChef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

We’re wishing Interstellar MegaChef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan a very happy book birthday!

This sophomore novel from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author of The Ten Percent Thief explores colonialism, classism, and the future of food in a sci-fi tale following one woman’s determination to win the greatest cooking competition in the galaxy. It’s out now in North America, but don’t worry UK fans – it’ll be on bookshelves near you this Thursday!

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Looking for your one shot to rise to the “top of the pots” in the cutthroat world of interstellar cuisine? Look no further—you might have what it takes to be an Interstellar MegaChef!

Stepping off a long-haul star freighter from Earth, Saras Kaveri has one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili… and an invitation to compete in the galaxy’s most watched, most prestigious cooking show. Interstellar MegaChef is the showcase of the planet Primus’s austere, carefully synthesised cuisine. Until now, no-one from Earth—where they’re so incredibly primitive they still cook with fire—has ever graced its flowmetal cookstations before, or smiled awkwardly for its buzzing drone-cams.

Corporate prodigy Serenity Ko, inventor of the smash-hit sim SoundSpace, has just got messily drunk at a floating bar, narrowly escaped an angry mob and been put on two weeks’ mandatory leave to rest and get her work-life balance back. Perfect time to start a new project! And she’s got just the idea: a sim for food. Now she just needs someone to teach her how to cook.

A chance meeting in the back of a flying cab has Saras and Serenity Ko working together on a new technology that could change the future of food—and both their lives—forever…

“A lot of fun.” —New Scientist

“An engaging story that dives into themes about the appreciation of food, colonization, and xenophobia and features two morally gray queer women attempting to find their footing with each other.” —Library Journal, starred review

“Absolutely bursting with flavor and thrumming with possibility – this is science fiction at its best.” —Tashan Mehta, author of Mad Sisters of Esi

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The Ten Percent Thief is an Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee!

We’re thrilled to see The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan on the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist!

The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 24th July 2024 and you can check out the full shortlist here.

Set in a futuristic Bangalore known as Apex City, where a person’s rights are dictated by their usefulness to society, The Ten Percent Thief is a fresh, dystopian mosaic novel following the city’s inhabitants from across the social spectrum—and the rebellion that’s brewing underneath it all…

For fans of Red Rising and Poster Girl, The Ten Percent Thief is out now in paperback, and Lavanya’s brand new novel, Interstellar MegaChef, is available to preorder!

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Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve.

With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent – the Virtual elite – and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity.

The system has no flaws. Until the elusive “Ten Percent Thief” steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city and plants a revolution in the barren soil of the Analog world.

Previously published in South Asia only as Analog/Virtual, The Ten Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.

“Lavanya Lakshminarayan breathes new life into dystopia” — The Washington Post

“Smart, vivid, engaging” — The Guardian

“A new masterpiece” — SciFiNow

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OUT NOW: The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

We’re wishing The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan a very happy book birthday – it’s out now in North America!

In Apex City, formerly Bangalore, humanity’s relationship with technology and each other in this stunning dystopian mosaic novel from a dazzling new talent.

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Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve.

With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent – the Virtual elite – and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity.

The system has no flaws. Until the elusive “Ten Percent Thief” steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city and plants a revolution in the barren soil of the Analog world.

Previously published in South Asia only as Analog/Virtual, The Ten Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.

“A new masterpiece” — SciFiNow

“As satisfying as it is clever” — Publishers Weekly

“Lakshminarayan expertly packages a warning that will only get more relevant with time” — STARBURST Magazine

“Impressive” — SFX

“Playful and crushing in equal measure” — FanFiAddict

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Revealing the cover for The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan!

We’re so excited to reveal the gorgeous cover for The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan!

A stunning literary sci-fi mosaic novel set in a futuristic Bangalore, The Ten Percent Thief celebrates how the smallest seeds can start the biggest revolutions.

Out in hardback, eBook and audiobook in March 2023!

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Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve.

With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent – the Virtual elite – and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity.

The system has no flaws. Until the elusive “Ten Percent Thief” steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city and plants a revolution in the barren soil of the Analog world.

Previously published in South Asia only as Analog/Virtual, The Ten Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.

‘A masterful work of science fiction, complex and engaging.’ – S.B. Divya, Nebula Award finalist and author of Runtime

‘This is fiction playing for the highest stakes – and winning.’ – Chandrahas Choudhury, author of Clouds

‘A high velocity anthem sung through the shape of things to come.’ – Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Nebula Award finalist and author of The Inhuman Race