science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Paral ...
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fantasy
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poetry
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, reviews and interviews from authors from South Asia and around the world.
Contributors to the
online magazine
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Cixin Liu
Liu Cixin (, pronounced ; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese science fiction writer. He is a nine-time winner of China's Galaxy Award and has also received the 2015 Hugo Award for his novel '' The Three-Body Problem'' as well as the 2017 L ...
Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar ( he, לביא תדהר; born 16 November 1976) is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Ti ...
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Ken Liu
Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. His epic fantasy series ''The Dandelion Dynasty'', which he describes as silkpunk, is published by Simon & Schuster. Liu has won Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fic ...
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Theodora Goss
Theodora Goss (born September 30, 1968) is a Hungarian-American fiction writer and poet. Her writing has been nominated for major awards, including the Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic, World Fantasy, and Seiun Awards. Her short fiction and poetry ...
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Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer.
Writing
de Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, and in 2009 was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Be ...
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Alyssa Wong
Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. Wong is a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award.
Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University, graduating in 2017 wit ...
Anil Menon
Anil Menon is an Indian writer of speculative fiction, as well as a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, who has authored research papers and edited books on Evolutionary Algorithms. His research addressed the mathematical ...
Rabi Thapa
Rabi Thapa ( ne, रवि थापा) is a Nepali writer and editor working in English. He is the Editor of La.Lit, the literary magazine from Nepal, and the author of Nothing to Declare (Penguin India, 2011) and Thamel, Dark Star of Kathmand ...
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Profile
Mithila Review was founded by Salik Shah in late 2015 with the editorial support from Ajapa Sharma and Isha Karki. The inaugural issue of the magazine was launched in March 2016. It adopted a quarterly publishing schedule, and became a paying market in October 2016. Every issue of ''Mithila Review'' is available to read online. ''Mithila Review'' relies primarily on donations and subscriptions as a source of funding through
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Salik Shah believes that the Mithila Review attempts to "decentre science fiction in an Anglo-centric, Euro-centric milieu".
Awards
Mary Soon Lee won third prize in the Rhysling Award 2018 in the Long Poem category. The poem was originally published in ''Issue 9'' of the ''Mithila Review''.{{Cite web, url=http://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/pages/18rhysling.html, title=Science Fiction Poetry Association, website=www.sfpoetry.com, access-date=2020-01-21