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S.B. Divya

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S.B. Divya (she/any) is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Meru (2023), Machinehood, Runtime, and Contingency Plans For the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she was the co-editor of Escape Pod, the weekly science fiction podcast, from 2017-2022. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing, and she worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. Born in Pondicherry, India, Divya now resides in Southern California. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can.

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	Machinehood 3.65 avg rating — 3,707 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meru (The Alloy Era, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 3,406 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Runtime 3.76 avg rating — 891 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loka (The Alloy Era, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 495 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape Pod by Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author) (Editor), S.B. Divya (Goodreads Author) (Editor), N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Stars Rise by Lucas K. Law (Editor), Derwin Mak (Editor), Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loss of Signal 3.38 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Microbiota and the Masses 3.50 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse And Other Possible Situations 4.23 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meru: The Alloy Era, Book 1 by S.B. Divya (Goodreads Author), Deepa Samuel (Narrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I’m so honored to have won the 2025 Sushila Devi Award for LOKA. This is wonderfully unexpected news to finish out the year!

This was not an easy book for me to finish due to my struggles with Long Covid and ME/CFS, and the main character also has a debilitating chronic illness, so it’s especially meaningful to have it recognized.

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“When you find a good person, someone who's grown with you, moved around with you, who forgives your bullshit and thinks you're sexy on your off days... When it hurts to live without them, no matter how angry you are, you find it in your heart to forgive *their* bullshit”
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“Technology was as habit-forming as every escapist, feel-good drug”
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“Privacy had gone the way of the dodo during Welga’s childhood. Some part of her always remembered the cameras. In Marrakech, the caliph’s network blackout had unsettled her more than the potential for violence – the lack of communication, the inability to see what others were doing. It would take a million lifetimes to watch every minute of every public feed, but she had a sense of security knowing she could look out for her people, and they’d do the same. Losing that had felt like walking around with one shoe: doable but not at all comfortable.”
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