Mithila Review Issue 8

Mithila Review is an international science fiction and fantasy magazine. We publish original speculative fiction, poetry, essays and interviews from around the world. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION· Coming of Age in A Visual World by Ajapa SharmaSHORT STORIES· Ruin Marble by Arkady Martine· Datsue-Ba by Eliza ChanFLASH FICTION· The Tailings by Brian Daniel GreenNOVELETTE· Champollion’s Foot by Haris A. DurraniPOETRY· Instructions for Astronauts by Michael Janairo· Three Poems by Ingrid Jendrzejewski· family (a form somehow must) by Gwynne Garfinkle· How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong by Hester J. Rook· The Santa Monica Prophecies: A Collaborative Triptych by Layla Al-Bedawi, Holly Lyn Walrath & Bonnie Jo StufflebeamVISUAL SPOTLIGHT· Her Broken Shadow: How I Made a Science-Fiction Feature Film in East Africa by Dilman Dila· From the Ruins of the Quake by Ashim Shakya· An Indian Architecture Student’s Art Journal by Ashish Mathew Mammen· Two Visual Poems by Holly Lyn WalrathARTICLES· Robots, Ghosts, and Dreams: Some Preoccupations of World SF by Rachel Cordasco· Aliens with a Human Face: The Human-like Non-Humans of Doctor Who by Urna Mukherjee· Asian Monsters, Edited by Margrét Helgadóttir by Ajapa Sharma· The Collected Poems of Bruce Boston: Dark Roads and Brief Encounters With My Third Eye by Salik ShahEdited by Salik Shah and Ajapa Sharma