#Indian fantasy novels

[applebrooklyn]

It haunts me how he deals with this, with all the blood on his hands and sacrifices he has planned. Awake as the city sleeps, scribbling away in the yellow glow of the lantern—obsessively, possessively—eulogizing the tragedies he caused.

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(excerpt of a book I will probably write)

[someoneintheshadow456]

The PJO Disney Plus reboot making Grover Indian is not only an example of race washing but completely goes against series canon.

Lore Olympus states that the Hindu gods (referred to as “otherworldly forces”) set up a magical barrier around India and its people to prevent other pantheons from interacting with them. Therefore the ONLY way for an Indian half blood to exist is for them to be the child of a Hindu god or goddess.

And Riordan will NEVER open that can of worms because the Hindu religion is the third largest faith in the world and attempting to represent it at all while being a white westerner will piss off 1.2 billion people and could cause PJO to get banned in India, where it has a substantial fanbase.

Therefore everyone wanting Indian representation in PJO is asking for a lost cause. It will never happen because the risks of offending people and/or getting banned are too high. Riordan writing in that “magical barrier” line was a smart move so that he would never have to address this kind of controversy.

The Disney plus reboot could write around this by implying Gordon’s mother is an Indian Christian (and thus the barrier won’t apply to her), but I highly doubt they were smart enough to consider that.

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Sometimes All Your choices Suck and You Still Have to Make One

My first experience with Tasha Suri was The Jasmine Throne. So, as I seem to woth so many authors lately, I'm working backwards through her work. This book is Suri's debut, and I cannot believe I didn't get to this one sooner. Let's talk Empire of Sand.

Mehr's life is super hemmed in from all sides. She's a woman in a patriarchal system. She is half Amrithi (a race actively scorned by colonizing Ambhans), her stepmother does NOT like her, and not even her Ambhan half can save her from being forced into a marriage by the Maha. Who is himself a near-immortal God Emperor and has spent centuries absolutely fucking the balance between the real world world the gods' dreams. By exploiting and abusing Amrithi with the amata gift. Because mixing a desire for absolute power, a love of hurting people, and a world-class ability to rules-lawyer the fabric of the universe is just NEVER a good combination.

This is the situation Mehr ends up in, howeverz when she is forcibly married off and dragged out to the Maha's temple in the desert. Amun is a good man, and he manages to buy himself and Mehr enough time and wiggle room in their vows to the Maha for Mehr to eventually break his hold over the Empire and the gods. The plot held me throughout, but thats not the reason to read this book.

The politics, interpersonal relationships, and Mehr herself are the top reasons to read this book.

The politics are multilayered, and they encompass all the complexities of colonization and the clashes that inevitably occur between cultures, traditions, religions, and identities. They also scale beautifully, from Mehr's fights with her father and stepmother to her resistance against the Maha, and finally to the clashes between the Ambhan and Amrithi peoples.

Then there is how Mehr navigates her relationships, which is stunningly well done. One of my favorite parts of watching Mehr was watching her just HANDLE people. And watching her discover who Amun and the Maha were was compelling as heck. It also paid off beautifully, because Mehr was literally never spoiled for choice in this book, and when he had options, generally they were all awful. So for Mehr, a lot of this book was about learning to make choices and how to keep choices sacred--even when people try to back you into corners and boxes. That was without a doubt my favorite part of this book.

Overall, I cannot wait to keep going with Mehr's story in the next book and to return to this incredible world.

[skgovt]

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green

[saving-for-a-rainey-day]

Books by Indian Authors

Literary Fiction: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Graphic Novel: The Sadhu by Gotham Chopra and Jeevan Kang

Mystery: Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

Fantasy: Dark Things by Sukanya Venkatraghavan

Historical Fiction: Chanakya’s Chant by Ashwin Sanghi

Horror: Patang by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

Romance: This is Not Your Story by Savi Sharma

Science Fiction: Cult of Chaos by Shweta Taneja

Short Stories: The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet And Other Stories by Vandana Singh

Thriller: Marry Me, Stranger by Novoneel Chakraborty

Auto/Biographies: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

History: India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra

Poetry: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

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Terry Pratchett about fantasy ❤

Terry Pratchett interview in The Onion, 1995 (x)

O: You’re quite a writer. You’ve a gift for language, you’re a deft hand at plotting, and your books seem to have an enormous amount of attention to detail put into them. You’re so good you could write anything. Why write fantasy?

Terry: I had a decent lunch, and I’m feeling quite amiable. That’s why you’re still alive. I think you’d have to explain to me why you’ve asked that question.

O: It’s a rather ghettoized genre.

Terry: This is true. I cannot speak for the US, where I merely sort of sell okay. But in the UK I think every book— I think I’ve done twenty in the series— since the fourth book, every one has been one the top ten national bestsellers, either as hardcover or paperback, and quite often as both. Twelve or thirteen have been number one. I’ve done six juveniles, all of those have nevertheless crossed over to the adult bestseller list. On one occasion I had the adult best seller, the paperback best-seller in a different title, and a third book on the juvenile bestseller list. Now tell me again that this is a ghettoized genre.

O: It’s certainly regarded as less than serious fiction.

Terry: (Sighs) Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire— Was it you who wrote the review? I thought I recognized it— Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus.

Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. Up to a few hundred years ago no one would have disagreed with this, because most stories were, in some sense, fantasy. Back in the middle ages, people wouldn’t have thought twice about bringing in Death as a character who would have a role to play in the story. Echoes of this can be seen in Pilgrim’s Progress, for example, which hark back to a much earlier type of storytelling. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply now— a big muscular guys with swords and certain godlike connections— That’s fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. I cannot pronounce Bahaghvad-Gita but the Indian one, you know what I mean. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is by the standards that we apply now, a work of fantasy.

Now I don’t know what you’d consider the national literature of America, but if the words Moby Dick are inching their way towards this conversation, whatever else it was, it was also a work of fantasy. Fantasy is kind of a plasma in which other things can be carried. I don’t think this is a ghetto. This is, fantasy is, almost a sea in which other genres swim. Now it may be that there has developed in the last couple of hundred years a subset of fantasy which merely uses a different icongraphy, and that is, if you like, the serious literature, the Booker Prize contender. Fantasy can be serious literature. Fantasy has often been serious literature. You have to fairly dense to think that Gulliver’s Travels is only a story about a guy having a real fun time among big people and little people and horses and stuff like that. What the book was about was something else. Fantasy can carry quite a serious burden, and so can humor. So what you’re saying is, strip away the trolls and the dwarves and things and put everyone into modern dress, get them to agonize a bit, mention Virginia Woolf a few times, and there! Hey! I’ve got a serious novel. But you don’t actually have to do that.

(Pauses) That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself.

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Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim - bittersweet YA Fantasy

Her Radiant Curse is captivating, enchanting, action-packed and bittersweet YA Fantasy with fairytale-style writing and strong sibling bond. Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim Publication Date : August 29, 2023 publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers Read Date : August 27, 2023 Genre : Fantasy Pages : 432 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Disclaimer – Mnay thanks TBR and Beyond for tour…

[ackee]

please recommend some visual novels. theyre my guilty pleasure and i love playing that shit

ALL I PLAY ARE OTOMES (FEMALE PROTAG DATING SIM) REALLY. but ill share all my faves

games i like that i played 10+ yrs ago

date warp -- girl goes on a date and never returns home. rly interesting story imo thats kinda batshit insane (affectionate). also probably the first vn i've ever played w/ a darker skinned protag (she's indian american)!

magical diary: horse hall -- magical school premise with a zillion endings. also one of the first vns i could be black in (has a character creator)

lucky rabbit reflex -- highschool romance game w/ a lot of minigames. has a lot of replayability!!

games i like that i played within the last 5 yrs

aloners -- post apoc game w/ one (black) love interest.. the writings so good imo. made me emotional!!

demonheart -- dark fantasy otome w/ the craziest beginning i swear.. fun game i can be a bitch in!

arcade spirits -- arcade romance!!

mystic destinies: serendipity of aeons -- I DONT REMEMBER THE STORY MUCH BUT I REMEMBER IT BEING CRAZY AND LOVING IT BADDD...

akash: path of five -- game abt elemental people!

games im playing RN!!!!

tri city monsters -- HOT HOT MONSTER MEN GOD IS GOOD

i havent played otomes in like.. a few yrs... i used to be so obsessed so im gonna try to get back into them this year 🫡

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2024 Book Review #8 – The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham James

This has been on my tbr for long enough that I entirely forget what originally put it there – the only thing I actually knew going in was that the author was ‘the My Heart is a Chainsaw guy’ (I have not read My Heart is a Chainsaw yet either). Given the genre, that was honestly probably ideal. As was the fact that a blizzard hit a couple days after I started it and I’ve been reading it looking out on a frozen snowscape – it’s very much a winter sort of story.

The story’s told in five parts of wildly varying lengths, each with it’s own endearingly cheesy b-horror movie title and each following a different protagonist. The first four each follow one of a friend group who, as a bunch of fuckup teenagers, trespassed on hunting grounds that were really supposed to be reserved for elders and shot a bunch of elk they had no right to – including a pregnant young cow who was for one reason or another special. Ten years later, the Elk-Headed Woman drags herself back into the world, and begins getting her vengeance for the death of her and her child on each of them (and everyone they care about) in turn.

I have a longstanding opinion that a full-length novel is just too long to sustain a real horror story – by 300 pages things have fairly reliably collapse into urban fantasy or action or farce. The breakup into different parts solves this very well – they’re all very much connected and interwoven, but each feels like its own distinct narrative unit with its own tension and rising action.

And this is very much a horror story in the classic, just barely short of shlocky sense. A trespass against vague but understood sacred laws that leads to horrific and bloody retribution against everyone involved is as close to archtypal horror as you can possibly get, after all. The last section is even focused on a Final Girl! Specifically, it’s a subgenre that I can’t really name but feels very familiar to me – and one I’ve always been a huge fan of, anyway. It’s somewhere downstream of The Count of Monte Cristo, a story where the agent of supernatural doom spends the majority of the story consciously working in the background, manipulating events and exacerbating the protagonist/victim’s flaws to lead them to a contrived but tragic end? Think the netflix Fall of the House of Usher, but like about the exact opposite end of the socioeconomic spectrum.

Class is very much something the book cares about. All four protagonists grew up poor on a reservation with little in the way of wealth or opportunity, and by the time they’d turned eighteen all four of them were the kind of young asshole who made life just a little bit worse for everyone around them dealing with the same shit. Ten years latter the three of them who’ve survived that long have gotten over themselves and matured in their own way (and to their own degree), but none of them are exactly flush with cash or living lives of bourgeois respectability (though Lewis comes close). The precarity and only tenuous connections to the society around them just make them better prey for what’s hunting them, of course – in every case, death comes after the (either metaphorical or very viscerally literal) destruction of the few close ties they have, and the only one to survive is also the only one who could really expect people to come rushing to their rescue.

Speaking of close ties the protagonists have – the book’s conception of gender is fascinatingly weird, or at least fascinating in the sense that I’m not at all sure how intentional it is. Of the four main victims, one dies alone at eighteen, and the other three who survive the next ten years are all pretty much explicitly saved (or at least improved and uplifted) by a relationship with a woman who, if not flawless, is basically strictly his moral and practical better. Even the most consistent fuckup of the group has a redeeming feature of being willing to do just about anything for his daughter (despite having lost the chance to really be a big part of her life several times over). With one exception, these women all then die, messily, entirely and explicitly to fuck with and ruin the lives of their men. It’s like someone read Women in Refrigerators and went ‘well there’s an idea...’. It’s blatant enough that I feel like it’s got to be making a deliberate point, but (unless it’s just genre emulation) what the point is does escape me slightly.

Also on the note of stuff I’m quite sure is going over my head at least a bit – basketball! It’s a pretty vital thread running through the entire book, to the point that one of the big set pieces of the final act is literally a basketball game with the monster. Which, like, I watched enough bad anime as a small child to find contrived game-playing under unclear mythic rules with things that really want to kill you instinctively endearing, but I can’t really do anything with this except just point at it.

So as the title might imply, this is a novel that’s concerned with race – all but I believe exactly one character is either is either Blackfeet or Crow, more than half the book takes place on a reservation, and a chunk of the rest is spent having to deal with racist assholes of varying severity. Now, I admit that I have at this point a probably overly cynical view of books that end up on breathless ‘socially conscious horror’ or ‘s/ff from diverse creators you NEED to read’ lists online, but I was still rather pleasantly by how matter-of-factly this was handled? I suppose the best way to put it is that culture, upbringing and racialization deeply inform everyone’s characters, but it never feels like the book is preoccupied with providing some assumed naive and impressionable audience any Important Lessons or provide Good Representation to valourize or emulate? Which is probably just a sign I need to raise and re calibrate my expectations, but.

The monster doesn’t exactly work as, like, a coherent character in terms of her skills and abilities, but as a monster the Elk-Headed Woman is great. But then I love contrived fucked up tragedies and am a longstanding partisan of Spooky Deer Horror, so I suppose I would say that.

So yeah, fun read!

[king-of-horny]

If Sirius and Regulus are models (like since childhood), so James is a singer, son of singers and comes from a family of artists, Remus is a writer of poetry, fantasy and criminal novels.

So they all meet at a fancy gala (where they raised money), where the black brother meets the mysterious writer Lupin and the eccentric singer Raj (which means "king" in Indi).

I'm actually using the name in Indi but there are many other languages in Indian culture

[yoga-onion]

[Image above: Haku, the river god, the Studio Ghibli, Spirited Away]

Legends of the humanoids

Intro

Lately, I've been into qigong exercises. This is because during the winter months, the whole body gets cold - muscles, ligaments and even internal organs - and I find that qigong, which stretches with more help of breathing and gravity, is safer than yoga stretching.

There are many common movements in the ancient Indian tradition of yoga, as well as in the ancient Chinese traditions of qigong and tai chi, and those who have been pursuing yoga for many years, or vice versa, may find it easier to switch between the two. And it seems possible that originally it was the same method that humans learnt from higher beings thousands or tens of thousands of years ago.

Common to both is that many of the forms are named after and imitate animals, mountains, flowers and other creatures in nature, such as trees. Not only that, but even in kung fu, karate and other martial arts, ancient people must have worshipped and respected the Nature and non-human creatures far more than modern people, as they compared them to animals and other forms of nature when they performed miracle-class strength.

Of more interest in ancient folklore are humanoids, including human-animal hybrids and human-animal chimeras, as well as cryptids, which are animals that they believe may exist somewhere in the wild. Why are there so many humanoids being talked about, not only in myth and folklore, but also in S.F. and fantasy novels?

Let's take a look at some of the most enigmatic and legendary creatures whose current existence is either scientifically questionable or unfounded.

[Image below: Sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion]

伝説のヒューマノイドたち

はじめに

最近、すっかり気功にハマっている。というのも、冬場は筋膜、筋肉、靭帯、内臓まで全身が冷えるので、呼吸と重力の力をもっと借りてストレッチする気功は、ヨガのストレッチよりも安全だと感じるからだ。

古代インドの伝統であるヨガにも、古代中国の伝統である気功や太極拳にも、共通する動きがたくさんあり、長年ヨガを追求してきた人、あるいはその逆の人たちは、両者の切り替えが楽だと感じるかもしれない。そして、もともとは人類が何千年、何万年も前に高次の存在から学んだのと同じ方法だった可能性もありそうだ。

両者に共通するのは、型の多くが動物、昆虫、山、花や木など自然界に存在するその他の生物の名称が付いており、模倣されていることだ。それだけでなく、カンフーや空手などの武道においても、古代の人々は奇跡的な強さを発揮する際に動物や自然界の姿に例えるなど、現代人よりもはるかに自然や人間以外の生き物を崇拝し、尊敬していたに違いない。

古代からの伝承において、もっと興味深いのは、ヒトと動物のハイブリッドや、ヒトと動物のキメラを含むヒューマノイド、また野生のどこかに存在するかもしれないと信じている動物である未確認生物などの存在だ。神話や民間伝承だけでなく、S.F.やファンタジーの世界でも、なぜこれほど多くのヒューマノイドが語り継がれているのか？

ここでは、現在のところ科学的にその存在が疑問視されているか、あるいは根拠がない、最も謎めいた伝説上の生物をいくつか見てみよう。

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Elena Isn't Sitting Around Telling Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings. She's Burning Shit Down

There's a trend in adult fantasy lately of mixing magic and technology and religion in some SUPER interesting ways. I loved it in Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga, NE Davenport's The Blood Trials, and now in Aparna Verma's The Phoenix King. Quite honestly, I was sold by the Indian-inspired world with morally grey protagonists and firebending, so finding out that there was tech mixing with magic here too was a nice bonus. This book also does one of my favorite things ever, and includes some really stunning character art in the inner cover...of a PAPERBACK. Publishers: More of that, please. I'm going to do my best to avoid spoilers below, because honestly I think more people should read and love this book and it's rich, complex world, phenomenal characters, deliberate pacing, and lovely writing. Let's talk The Phoenix King.

The world of Verma's debut novel explodes onto the pages fully formed, delightfully complex, and on the verge if shattering. Between the Raveni and Jantari enmity, the Ahrohassain twining into those cracks and applying pressure and murder in equal measures, and some twisted history with gods and fire magic, protagonist and heir to Ravence's throne Elena has her work cut out for her.

Elena is the heir to a kingdom and religion that expect her, like their Phoenix, to control fire. The only problem is that our clever, stubborn, ruthless girl cannot, and her father is no help.

Leo, the current king, is grappling with geopolitical machinations, single-parenthood, grief, possibly some low-key madness, and the shattering conflict of wanting his daughter to be a strong queen and maybe not wanting to give up his power. And despite his desperate bids to leave Elena a stable kingdom, bringing in Samson, the landless king with an army, for a political marriage to Elena, just sets everything on the final downward spiral.

And that's before we remember that we have one more wild card in play: Yassen Knight. (Literally it took me this whole book to train myself out of going, "Yassen? As in Gregorovich???" So thanks for nothing there, Anthony Horowitz...) Yassen has all the world-weariness of a soldier who doesn't understand how he is still alive in a world that keeps dragging him back to hell no matter how many times he hears "just one last mission..."

Elena and Yassen's connection is immediate, but their relationship is best described as a slow burn. The parts of each of them that are wounded recognize each other, but it takes their brains a while to catch up.

Generally speaking, the worldbuikdig and character work are the key reasons to read this book. Both are beautifully done independently, and Verma takes it to the next level by having each inform and influence the other. I haven't seen worldbuilding this quietly understated but beautifully intricate in a while, and that background for some genuinely complex characters is just a stunning combination.

I have more to say about this book, but most of it involves fangirling over massive spoilers, so I will leave you for now with a five-star rating and a strong recommendation to read this incredible book. One can only hope that the next two books of the trilogy come out SOON!

[alexa-santi-author]

Why the "Regency Era" is a fantasy realm

I've seen some interesting discussions back and forth about making historical fiction and particularly historical romance more inclusive, and I do think that there's some merit to the argument that merely inserting BIPOC as part of the ruling class erases many of the historic struggles people went through in terms of both class and race.

However, there's something that people don't seem to realize when it comes to the Regency Era: it's a fantasy realm that was primarily created by a single author.

Just as J.R.R. Tolkien published his Lord of the Rings books and created a world that would loom over the fantasy genre for decades to come, Georgette Heyer created the Regency Era in a way that I think people looking at the romance genre from the outside don't really understand.

Heyer wrote several historical romances and mystery novels prior to 1935, but it was with Regency Buck that she introduced her version of the Regency Era, a version that has actually been far more influential in popular culture than that of Jane Austen. (Most of the Austen adaptations pull more from Heyer than people realize, especially in terms of manners.) Heyer's world is all polite society heroes with a stiff upper lip and perhaps a tinge of rakishness, spirited yet virginal heroines, and a cast of supporting characters that range from younger brothers to elderly aunts.

There are very few hints that anyone outside the aristocracy is of any consequence, or even knows how to behave themselves, even when the middle-class daughter of a rich "Cit" marries an impoverished aristocrat in A Civil Contract. Sex exists, but only behind firmly closed doors and, for the heroines, only after marriage.

And what about the minorities that we know lived in Great Britain during the Regency Era? Not just the racial minorities that included Black citizens and former slaves as well as Indian immigrants, but also religious minorities? They pretty much don't exist in Heyer's world, apart from a few anti-Semitic stereotypes of rapacious Jewish moneylenders that make modern readers cringe when they stumble across an unbowdlerized edition. There are a few jokes and whispers about "unmanly" men, but that's about it for LGBTQIA+ representation as well.

Given what we now know about the Regency Era -- and we know a lot more than Heyer did when she was writing almost a hundred years ago -- we know that her view of Regency society was as artificial as Tolkien's world. Despite her use of historical sources, her romance novels are set in a fantasy world that melds the fashions and historical events of the Regency with the Victorian morals and mores that Heyer herself was raised with. The Regency Era was the late Georgian Era and was far more vulgar and free-wheeling than Heyer was willing to admit. She left out the people who didn't fit into her vision of the Regency, which showed an Anglo-Saxon ruling class that deserved to rule because of their natural superiority.

So my opinion about TV shows and films like Bridgerton and Mr. Malcolm's List that show an inclusive aristocracy in the Regency Era is ... well, it's all fantasy anyway, isn't it? Why not make the fantasy inclusive since the whole era is Heyer's illusion dressed up with a few historical details?

And if you want to try and argue that Heyer was historically accurate about everything, be prepared: I have sources that Heyer either ignored or did not have available to her. Look up Benjamin Silliman's 1803 journal of his trip to Great Britain sometime.

[manic-intent]

Hi there! About five years ago, you provided reading recommendations for me in the “weird western” genre. It took me on a journey that exposed me to many incredible, diverse authors and reignited my love of reading. Would you be willing to share some more book recommendations? Doesn’t have to be weird western - I like your taste and am always happy to expand my horizons.

Thank you so much for your time and I hope you’re doing well!

Hello!

I haven't been reading that many English novels lately... I fell into the hole of reading Chinese danmei novels and with all its popcorn bloody drama it's been hard to turn back. If you're willing to try danmei, I rec:

Qiang Jin Jiu (officially licensed, or you can look up the English fan translation). Probably my fave danmei of all time and my fave book of the year from a couple of years back. Incredible read. Alt history novel.

Scum Villain's Self Saving System (same as above)

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (same as above). Has been adapted into an animation and a tv show that is on Netflix (The Untamed).

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know (x)

The Demon Venerable's Wistful Desire (x)

Peerless (x)

Books by priest (Guardian, Mo Du, etc). For priest if you're unfamiliar with her work I rec starting with the tv adaptation of Tian Ya Ke (Word of Honour) that is on Netflix

For English/English Translated novels, I've always loved:

Jin Yong (The Legend of the Condor Heroes is deservedly one of the most-read books in the world. I grew up with this, as did many people across the Chinese diaspora. On the official translation it's billed as the "Chinese Lord of the Rings", but it's nothing like Lord of the Rings--it's wuxia. Hell, it's probably more read than Lord of the Rings by sheer reader volume. tbh the official English translation annoys me because of the random name translations, so I rec the fan translation here)

NK Jemisin (Fifth Season series etc, incredible books, fantasy)

Liu Cixin (Three Body Problem etc: now adapted into several tv shows, including one on Netflix. I haven't watched any of them yet but you can try those first if you don't want to commit to the books)

Claire G Coleman (Terra Nullius, The Old Lie)

Saad Z Hossain (The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday etc)

Nnedi Okorafor (Akata Witch etc)

Yoon Ha Lee (Ninefox Gambit etc)

Nahoko Uehashi (Moribito, Beast Player etc)

SA Chakraborty (City of Brass etc)

Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians etc)

... and more :) Hope that helps as a starting point!