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…
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.…