Samit Basu
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Shekhar Kapur's Devi - Vol. 1
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The Simoqin Prophecies (GameWorld Trilogy, #1)
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The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
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Turbulence
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2010
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The City Inside
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The Manticore's Secret (GameWorld Trilogy #2)
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The Unwaba Revelations (GameWorld Trilogy, #3)
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2008
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Resistance
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2014
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Terror on the Titanic (Morningstar Agency #1)
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Devi: Samvara (Devi, #2)
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“I just don't see why having these powers makes it necessary for all of us to become politicians, warriors, social workers, whatever. We would have tried it before if we really wanted to do it. None of us chose to spend our lives helping people before we got our powers - why should we do it now? Because comics say we should?”
― Turbulence
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“Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else”
― The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
― The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
“Here’s something you might not know, though—rulers tend to not be the smartest people.”
― The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
― The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
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