Every Wall Has Eyes: Announcing The City Inside by Samit Basu
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 ...