Tordotcom Publishing is thrilled to announce that Ruoxi Chen and Sanaa Ali-Virani have acquired JCB Prize finalist Samit Basu’s
The City Inside, a postcolonial
Ready Player One meets
Severance, set in a near-future Delhi where trust is impossible, popularity is conformity, and every wall has eyes. The two-book deal, for North American rights, was brokered by Diana Fox at Fox Literary.
Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture-power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis-handling to see this, or to figure out what she wants from her life.