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09/07/2025

Join typeface designer Pooja Saxena and editor Rakesh Khanna for an AMA about Indian street lettering, Indic script signboards, Gujarati pulp fiction cover art, independent publishing, and whatever else!

Thursday 9 pm IST on Bluesky!

27/06/2025

Yougaiz are too wonderful! Pooja's book has been fully funded in less than 24 hours!

A huge thanks to all our backers and boosters!

If you haven't checked out the campaign yet, we urge you to do so... has devoted many years to photographing, geo-tagging, and annotating public signage, and the INDIA STREET LETTERING archive she's built is staggeringly cool. Her book is going to be fantastic and there are lots of other fun rewards available, including guided type walks around Delhi, font bundles, postcard sets, and custom made signs.

26/06/2025

We're doing a Kickstarter campaign for INDIA STREET LETTERING by Pooja Saxena. It's a 200-page hardcover full-colour book documenting letterforms on the signboards of India’s cities.

We've raised over $5000 in less than a day, and we're already 90% of the way to our goal! Thanks so much to everyone who backed the project so far!

A journey through typographic craft and culture

10/06/2025

Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction! 33 short stories and comics!

Anti-Caste Speculative Tote Bags!

Anti-Caste Sticker Set by Priyanka Paul!

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/the-blaft-book-of-anti-caste-sf

https://www.blaft.com/collections/bags/products/anti-caste-sf-tote

https://www.blaft.com/products/anti-caste-sticker-set-by-priyanka-paul

29/05/2025

We'll be at in , California on Sunday -- Space 110! Drop by & stock up on Indian language pulp fiction in translation, Anti-Caste SF, and ghostlore!!

Jal Kunwari by our new intern

15/05/2025

Scheming weretigers and hungry phungpuinus from Mizoram in Northeast India!

Dreadlocked jadamunis and magical snake-uncles from Tamil Nadu in Southeast India!

Banji-Banmang from the Donyi-Polo demon plane, and anthropophagous Ra'tud Sum from the Sora underworld!

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals

12/04/2025

Next weekend at , join and for a discussion of The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF! Get a signed copy! Network with other revolutionary cyborgs! Build utopian casteless futures!

07/04/2025

If you're in the SF Bay Area, please join us on Thursday at in the Mission District for a talk on Indian language pulp fiction. We'll be showing a slideshow of cover art from all over the subcontinent, reading from .vish's translation of H.N. Golibar's ghost-possession slasher-thriller novel "The Coils of Fate", discussing vintage scifi and detective fiction, our new Anti-Caste SF anthology, and more!

It's a super fabulous bookstore y si después te entra el hambre, esta zona está llena de taquerías sabrosas!

31/03/2025

"I love it when the promise in an anthology’s preface is fulfilled."

Devarshi Ghosh on The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

Definitely a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts, the exhaustive anthology is a mostly strong collection.

06/03/2025

We really enjoyed our last central California event at a few months ago, tabling next to and plentiful other badass artists outside . And last week we had a blast at the .

Soooo... we're sooper excited for the Central Valley Zine Fest organized by on Saturday! We've got zines by .tongue & Kuzhali Manickavel, .rt's Anti-Caste SF anthology, .vish's Gujarati Pulp Fiction book, and lots more!

01/03/2025

We've been upgraded to a larger stall at ! Come shop for ghostlore, anti-caste speculative fiction, Gujarati pulp novels in translation and more!

Btw yes our tote bags can be safely ironed 😅

Tomorrow (Sunday), "River of Stories" author has a session at 5 pm!

21/02/2025

A witch doctor tries to tame an invisible spirit.

A murder victim speaks from beyond the grave... through a haunted melon.

A cyborg treks through the Western Ghats in search of a cure for the cyanofication plague.

Three zombie-slayer women drive a gold Ambassador w/ lethal mods à la Fury Road through post-apocalyptic Chennai.

All this & more in THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF

New! Click here for the eBook An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora. edited by R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. cover art by Priyanka Paul This book features a mix of original English short stor...