Malik, Usman T
Entry updated 26 February 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1981- ) Pakistan-born doctor and author, sometimes resident in US in his medical role, who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Crimson Storm" in Thirteen Stories for June 2003. He continues to concentrate mostly on shorter forms, though the ambitious The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn (22 April 2015 Tor.com; 2015 ebook) is of novella length, and engages in Equipoisal juxtapositions of fantasy and folklore, while movingly fixed to the complexities of the world as experienced by those who emigrate across the globe. Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan (coll 2021; rev vt Midnight Doorways: Stories 2022) won a World Fantasy Award as best collection. [JC]
Usman Tanveer Malik
born Lahore, Pakistan: 12 October 1981
works
- The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn (New York: Tor.com, 2015) [novella: ebook: first appeared 22 April 2015 Tor.com: na/Victo Ngai]
collections and stories
- City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat (New York: Tor.com, 2020) [novelette: ebook: first appeared 21 October 2020 Tor.com: na/Scott Bakal]
- #Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi (New York: Tor.com, 2021) [story: ebook: first appeared 3 March 2021 Tor.com: na/Hazem Asif]
- Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan (place not known: Kitab, 2021) [coll: hb/Rohama Malik]
- Midnight Doorways: Stories (Gurugram, India: Hachette India, 2022) [coll: rev vt of the above: pb/Harshad Marathe]
works as editor
- The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 (Lexington, Kentucky: Apex Publications, 2015) [anth: Apex: pb/Sarah Anne Langton]
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