BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR LAVANYA LAKSHMINARAYAN
Looking for your one shot to rise to the 'top of the pots' in the cutthroat world of interstellar cuisine? Look no further-you might have what it takes to be an INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF!
Stepping off a long-haul star freighter from Earth, Saras Kaveri has one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili ... and an invitation to compete in the galaxy's most watched, most prestigious cooking show. Interstellar MegaChef is the showcase of the planet Primus's austere, carefully synthesized cuisine. No one from Earth---where they're so incredibly primitive they still cook with fire---has ever graced its flowmetal cookstations before, or smiled awkwardly for its buzzing drone-cams. Until now.
Corporate prodigy Serenity Ko, inventor of the smash-hit sim SoundSpace, has just got messily drunk at a floating bar, narrowly escaped an angry mob and been put on two weeks' mandatory leave to rest and get her work-life balance back. Perfect time to start a new project! And she's got just the idea: a sim for food. Now she just needs someone to teach her how to cook.
A chance meeting in the back of a flying cab has Saras and Serenity Ko working together on a new technology that could change the future of food-and both their lives-forever...
'Interstellar Megachef is a stunning achievement, and an absolute feast for your brain, your heart and your soul. Devour it at once - it'll leave you sated and hungry for more.'--Samit Basu, JCB Prize-shortlisted author of Chosen Spirits
'This book is a goddamn delight. Lavanya Lakshminarayan has woven a universe that pairs both past and future, potential and nostalgia, organic and technology, and then she runs them through with rich, deep contradictions. Absolutely bursting with flavour and thrumming with possibility---this is science fiction at its best.'--Tashan Mehta, AutHer Award-winning author of Mad Sisters of Esi
'Interstellar MegaChef might be the first culinary-science-fiction novel I've read, and a terrific one at that. The high-concept hook of a galactic competitive cooking show is just one ingredient in a densely multilayered narrative confection that's a funny, smart, and entertaining dive into how much food habits can tell about people and cultures across the world(s).'--Indra Das, Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning author of The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
'If The Great British Baking Show and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had a child, it would be INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF. This delightful story is replete with loveable characters, a unique plot, and plenty of sly commentary on colonialism, culture wars, and politics. Part space opera, part solarpunk, and all fun, Lakshminarayan dishes up an excellent meal that will leave you ready for seconds.'--S.B. Divya, Nebula- and Hugo-nominated author of Meru
BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR LAVANYA LAKSHMINARAYAN
Looking for your one shot to rise to the 'top of the pots' in the cutthroat world of interstellar cuisine? Look no further-you might have what it takes to be an INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF!
Stepping off a long-haul star freighter from Earth, Saras Kaveri has one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili ... and an invitation to compete in the galaxy's most watched, most prestigious cooking show. Interstellar MegaChef is the showcase of the planet Primus's austere, carefully synthesized cuisine. No one from Earth---where they're so incredibly primitive they still cook with fire---has ever graced its flowmetal cookstations before, or smiled awkwardly for its buzzing drone-cams. Until now.
Corporate prodigy Serenity Ko, inventor of the smash-hit sim SoundSpace, has just got messily drunk at a floating bar, narrowly escaped an angry mob and been put on two weeks' mandatory leave to rest and get her work-life balance back. Perfect time to start a new project! And she's got just the idea: a sim for food. Now she just needs someone to teach her how to cook.
A chance meeting in the back of a flying cab has Saras and Serenity Ko working together on a new technology that could change the future of food-and both their lives-forever...
'Interstellar Megachef is a stunning achievement, and an absolute feast for your brain, your heart and your soul. Devour it at once - it'll leave you sated and hungry for more.'--Samit Basu, JCB Prize-shortlisted author of Chosen Spirits
'This book is a goddamn delight. Lavanya Lakshminarayan has woven a universe that pairs both past and future, potential and nostalgia, organic and technology, and then she runs them through with rich, deep contradictions. Absolutely bursting with flavour and thrumming with possibility---this is science fiction at its best.'--Tashan Mehta, AutHer Award-winning author of Mad Sisters of Esi
'Interstellar MegaChef might be the first culinary-science-fiction novel I've read, and a terrific one at that. The high-concept hook of a galactic competitive cooking show is just one ingredient in a densely multilayered narrative confection that's a funny, smart, and entertaining dive into how much food habits can tell about people and cultures across the world(s).'--Indra Das, Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning author of The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
'If The Great British Baking Show and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had a child, it would be INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF. This delightful story is replete with loveable characters, a unique plot, and plenty of sly commentary on colonialism, culture wars, and politics. Part space opera, part solarpunk, and all fun, Lakshminarayan dishes up an excellent meal that will leave you ready for seconds.'--S.B. Divya, Nebula- and Hugo-nominated author of Meru
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