A first look at the cover for my upcoming hard science fiction novel—set in a near-future India where physics, geopolitics, and deep space engineering collide. Zero Dimensional Space – Book 1 begins not with warp drives or alien signals, but with a physics anomaly in a Casimir force experiment at a…
I don’t think Rajeev’s secretary understands what’s sitting on my desk. For weeks I’ve been sending papers, abstracts, and “short write-ups” to help her “brief him when he has the time.” Each time I send one, another request comes back. He’s a busy man, I know—but this isn’t a Mars…
There are some characters I hesitate to describe — not because there isn’t much to say, but because too much would be lost in the telling. Lata is one of them. She humbles me. She unsettles me. And sometimes, without warning, she angers me. That’s all I can say, for…
This is part of the in-universe blog series from Zero Dimensional Space, a hard science fiction novel that reimagines faster-than-light travel in a scientifically grounded and original way. The discovery of Zero Dimensional Space has sparked a covert, brutal space race, where governments deploy espionage, terrorism, and artificial minds to gain control…
Zoe isn’t a villain. What she has lived through has shaped her. And perhaps the saddest thing is that everything she thinks and says is the truth. Humanity is a parasite. But then again, she’s a mirror. A cracked one. And like all cracked mirrors, what she reflects is the…
Weili’s personality confuses me too. At times, there is profound wisdom in her, but in the very next moment, she turns into an indifferent, unsympathetic monster. I can never truly know what she is thinking, what she is going to do, or what she will do. Manoj K. < Audio…
Sometimes, long after her day has ended, I find Lata still in her in the lab, surrounded by oscilloscopes and unreadable data. Lata sits by her brown work table, pondering, wondering, writing. – Manoj K. < Lab Log 77 / IIT Palakkad / Blog Entry – Lata’s Lab Notes >The…
Sometimes I step back and listen to my characters, and it’s as if they’re more real than I am; in a matrix-kinda-way, they are all real. So here, I’m handing the mic to Nilima, the captain of the Anarva. She’s smarter than me, and definitely more awesome than me.– Manoj K.…