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Usman T. Malik


#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi

#Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi

Usman T. Malik

A series of interviews between a young, clean-cut journalist and an alternative, independent pichal pairi turns into an unexpected romance. But their relationship is tested when the entire world around them shuts down.

Read the full story for free at Tor Rector.

City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

Usman T. Malik

A Pakistani storyteller captivates a group of wide-eyed tourists with a nesting doll of interlocked stories about a trickster and a hidden city ruled by the Queen of Red Midnight.

Read the full story for free at Tor Reactor

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

Usman T. Malik

Nebula-nominated Novella

"The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" is a fantasy novella about a disenchanted young Pakistani professor who grew up and lives in the United States, but is haunted by the magical, mystical tales his grandfather told him of a princess and a Jinn who lived in Lahore, Pakistan, when the grandfather was a boy.

Originally published as a chapbook. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas 2016, edited by Paula Guran, and The New Voices of Fantasy (2017), edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman.

The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family

The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family

Usman T. Malik

The protagonist of this story, Tara Khan, represents millions of Muslim women who have lost their loved ones to religious fanatics, wars, and terrorism. The story is preoccupied with an attempt to understand, rationalize and examine even the most horrendous of human encounters, experiences and crimes through faith and science.
-- Salik Shah, Strange Horizons

Malik won the 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for this Nebula-nominated short story, which was first published in the anthology Qualia Nous and then in Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine. It can also be cound in the anthologies The Apex Book of Wold SF 4, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Nebula Awards Showcase 2016, edited by Mercedes Lackey.


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