I Can’t Wait For…Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
You can find the releases I’m most anticipating this year over on my Unmissable list, but I use Can’t-Wait Wednesday to feature books I’m hopeful about but aren’t 100% sure will be five star reads.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston!
Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston Genres: Adult, Sci Fi
Representation: Desi cast (probably?)
Published on: 11th November 2025
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Blending Indian mythology and classic space opera, Project Hanuman is a bold new science-fiction novel from Stewart Hotston, perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The ship needed to hear voices, to know he was not alone. The pilot thought they were going to fight an enemy, to find someone responsible and mete out justice. The Interlocutor thought they were going to help. The ship only wanted to hear the chaos of life and know he wasn’t alone among the stars.
The Arcology is a pan galactic utopia whose people live entirely online. Tired of paradise, Praveenthi ‘Prab’ Saal had herself printed into the physical world of Sirajah’s Reach, working as an Interlocutor – a go between for the Arcology and the cultures it meets in flesh and blood.
One evening after a call with her family – who are pressuring her to abandon her body and rejoin the Arcology, the city stops. Stops completely – nothing electronic works anymore. Terrified that the Arcology has just up and disappeared, she receives a call for help from a ship in dock whose pilot, Kercher, is a prisoner printed into a body to serve out his sentence in the physical world. Between them they discover it’s not just her planet, but the entire Arcology that’s gone missing. If they don’t find out what’s going on it could be the end of everyone and everything that calls the Arcology home.
Their only resource is their living ship, into which all the knowledge and culture of the Arcology has been downloaded. Asked to be a life raft for the Arcology, the ship, a frigate without a name, is dying – slowly being swallowed whole by the literal universe of information it’s been asked to carry.
Featuring worlds made entirely from gold, an enemy who has no consciousness, allies made of lichen and the grand Ring World of Akhanda – the physical heart of the Arcology. Prab and Kercher will need to put aside their dislike of each other and the Arcology if they’re to help their ship and save anything at all. Can they restore the possibility of hope to their lives?
If you don’t know, Hanuman is a Hindu deity – link to his wiki page – who I mostly know about through the kid’s version of the Mahabharata that I read when I was little. So I don’t know much! But it still interested me to see his name in a book title.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW. THAT SYNOPSIS!
Digital worlds are obviously hit or miss, but one that’s such a paradise that they send you out into the real world as a criminal sentence?! And are people born already inside it? Prab and Kercher both had to print bodies to have form in the ‘real’ world – does that mean they never had bodies of their own? Or is your body destroyed after you ‘upload’ to the digital world at some point? (When?)
But most of all I love the idea that a digital world WOULD ABSOLUTELY need flesh-and-blood people to be go-betweens between them and the rest of the universe! That sounds like a WILDLY interesting job! And even if you WEREN’T a go-between – imagine being on the outside when your entire world just disappears. Is the rest of the universe affected at all, given that the Arcology was never physically present to begin with???
Except Akhanda is the physical heart of it, so maybe it’s not quite correct to say the Arcology has no physical presence? I HAVE QUESTIONS.
Which won’t be answered until NOVEMBER, alas!
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