Description: A Best SFF of 2022 pick by The Washington Post Book Riot Quill to Live A highly anticipated 2022 release for Polygon The Washington Post The Nerd Daily BookBub The Philadelphia Inquirer The Portalist Tor.com "Basu''s evocative and thrilling novel explores with warmth and snark a future Delhi. The City Inside feels like a lost season of Black Mirror . "-- The Washington Post " The City Inside is one of the most horrifyingly plausible near futures I have ever read . It''s also funny, relatable, supremely clever, and deeply political . Highly recommended."--Kate Elliott, New York Times bestselling author "An extraordinary, immersive read about a horribly plausible near future of grotesque wealth disparity, climate change, abusive yet useless government, invasive technology, and people carefully ignoring it all by plugging themselves into electronic entertainment. To say it hits home is an understatement. . . . Brilliantly written, structurally inventive, completely immersive. "--KJ Charles, author of The Magpie Lord " The City Inside is a triumphant exploration of near-future India that is as compelling as it is urgent. Don''t miss this one ."--Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author " The most terrifying dystopian I''ve read in a long while, because it''s so plausible . Can''t recommend enough."--Tasha Suri, award-winning author of The Jasmine Throne " An instant classic . . . . Captures in perfectly immersive disorientation the sense of India as a country perpetually spaghettifying in the event horizon between competing mythic pasts and futures."--Indra Das, author of The Devourers "Peopled with a vivid cast of characters in an eerily plausible near-future setting echoing the horrors and absurdities of our present moment, The City Inside is SF at its best--fizzing with ideas, entertaining, revelatory and humane . I''ve never read anything quite like it." --Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister "Basu''s chief strengths as a novelist are character development, lively dialogue and a pleasingly off-kilter sense of humour ."-- Vogue India "This is one darkly plausible near-future dystopia that you won''t want to miss. It''s a vivid cyberpunk book that digs into relatable anxieties about our world and where it''s headed , the overwhelming-ness of it, and the paths to resistance ."-- Book Riot "The City Inside imagines a surveillance-state version of Delhi beset by futuristic traps and wonders, at once claustrophobic and brimming with possibility ."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer " A complex achievement in world-building."-- BookBub "There''s a chilling effect to Basu''s new near-future sf epic... Readers will empathize with Joey ''s dilemma... The novel''s theme, that the truth does not and cannot set anyone free, is as disturbing as it is thought-provoking ."-- Library Journal " The reader''s immersion into their world is truly felt... as one character sums it all up, "What is the point of this tech if it can''t tell us the truth?" Unlike a lot of cyberpunk novels, which seem to contain a fair amount of physical violence, Basu explores spiritual violence."-- Booklist "The insightful plot thoroughly probes the political and social consequences of life increasingly lived within virtual reality."-- Publishers Weekly "It infuriates me, then, that a novel as passionate, as angry and as smart as [ The City Inside lves into electronic entertainment. To say it hits home is an understatement. . . . Brilliantly written, structurally inventive, completely immersive. "--KJ Charles, author of The Magpie Lord " The City Inside is a triumphant exploration of near-future India that is as compelling as it is urgent. Don''t miss this one ."--Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author " The most terrifying dystopian I''ve read in a long while, because it''s so plausible . Can''t recommend enough."--Tasha Suri, award-winning author of The Jasmine Throne " An instant classic . . . . Captures in perfectly immersive disorientation the sense of India as a country perpetually spaghettifying in the event horizon between competing mythic pasts and futures."--Indra Das, author of The Devourers "Peopled with a vivid cast of characters in an eerily plausible near-future setting echoing the horrors and absurdities of our present moment, The City Inside is SF at its best--fizzing with ideas, entertaining, revelatory and humane . I''ve never read anything quite like it." --Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister "Basu''s chief strengths as a novelist are character development, lively dialogue and a pleasingly off-kilter sense of humour ."-- Vogue India "This is one darkly plausible near-future dystopia that you won''t want to miss. It''s a vivid cyberpunk book that digs into relatable anxieties about our world and where it''s headed , the overwhelming-ness of it, and the paths to resistance ."-- Book Riot "The City Inside imagines a surveillance-state version of Delhi beset by futuristic traps and wonders, at once claustrophobic and brimming with possibility ."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer " A complex achievement in world-building."-- BookBub "There''s a chilling effect to Basu''s new near-future sf epic... Readers will empathize with Joey ''s dilemma... The novel''s theme, that the truth does not and cannot set anyone free, is as disturbing as it is thought-provoking ."-- Library Journal " The reader''s immersion into their world is truly felt... as one character sums it all up, "What is the point of this tech if it can''t tell us the truth?" Unlike a lot of cyberpunk novels, which seem to contain a fair amount of physical violence, Basu explores spiritual violence."-- Booklist "The insightful plot thoroughly probes the political and social consequences of life increasingly lived within virtual reality."-- Publishers Weekly "It infuriates me, then, that a novel as passionate, as angry and as smart as [ The City Inside is SF at its best--fizzing with ideas, entertaining, revelatory and humane. I''ve never read anything quite like it." --Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister "Basu''s chief strengths as a novelist are character development, lively dialogue and a pleasingly off-kilter sense of humour ."-- Vogue India "This is one darkly plausible near-future dystopia that you won''t want to miss. It''s a vivid cyberpunk book that digs into relatable anxieties about our world and where it''s headed , the overwhelming-ness of it, and the paths to resistance ."-- Book Riot "The City Inside imagines a surveillance-state version of Delhi beset by futuristic traps and wonders, at once claustrophobic and brimming with possibility ."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer " A complex achievement in world-building."-- BookBub "There''s a chilling effect to Basu''s new near-future sf epic... Readers will empathize with Joey ''s dilemma... The novel''s theme, that the truth does not and cannot set anyone free, is as disturbing as it is thought-provoking ."-- Library Journal " The reader''s immersion into their world is truly felt... as one character sums it all up, "What is the point of this tech if it can''t tell us the truth?" Unlike a lot of cyberpunk novels, which seem to contain a fair amount of physical violence, Basu explores spiritual violence."-- Booklist "The insightful plot thoroughly probes the political and social consequences of life increasingly lived within virtual reality."-- Publishers Weekly "It infuriates me, then, that a novel as passionate, as angry and as smart as [ The City Inside mma... The novel''s theme, that the truth does not and cannot set anyone free, is as disturbing as it is thought-provoking ."-- Library Journal " The reader''s immersion into their world is truly felt... as one character sums it all up, "What is the point of this tech if it can''t tell us the truth?" Unlike a lot of cyberpunk novels, which seem to contain a fair amount of physical violence, Basu explores spiritual violence."-- Booklist "The insightful plot thoroughly probes the political and social consequences of life increasingly lived within virtual reality."-- Publishers Weekly "It infuriates me, then, that a novel as passionate, as angry and as smart as [ The City Inside lves into electronic entertainment. To say it hits home is an understatement. . . . Brilliantly written, structurally inventive, completely immersive. "--KJ Charles, author of The Magpie Lord " The City Inside is a triumphant exploration of near-future India that is as compelling as it is urgent. Don''t miss this one ."--Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author " The most terrifying dystopian I''ve read in a long while, because it''s so plausible . Can''t recommend enough."--Tasha Suri, award-winning author of The Jasmine Thron

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