Ahmed, Samira
Entry updated 15 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Indian-born author in US from childhood, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Brains Don't Smell" in Entropy Mag for 2016. She is of sf interest for her second novel, the Young-Adult Interment (2019), set in an American very Near Future difficult to distinguish from the tale's year of publication. Young men and women identified as ethnically unsound through surveys are imprisoned in interment camps, their fate not easily to be guessed (from within the pages of the novel). The young protagonist shows spunk, bewilderment, terror; she learns through her time of incarceration that she is not in truth the enemy. The enemy of Americans is the jailor. The protagonist of The Singular Life of Aria Patel (2025) is savagely dislocated into various iterations of the Multiverse by the apparent death by violence of her mother; she must search for a reversal of this fugue.
Ahmed should not be confused with the UK journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed (1968- ).[JC]
Samira Ahmed
born Mumbai, India
works
- Interment (New York: Little, Brown, 2019) [hb/Dana Ledl]
- The Singular Life of Aria Patel (New York: Little, Brown, 2025) [hb/]
works as editor
- Magic Has No Borders (New York: HarperTeen, 2023) with Sona Charaipotra [anth: stories from South Asia: hb/]
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