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…
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…
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.…