S. B. Divya

S. B. Divya
OccupationAuthor
EducationCalifornia Institute of Technology
University of California, San Diego
GenreScience fiction
Website
sbdivya.com

S. B. Divya is the pen name of Divya Srinivasan Breed, who writes speculative fiction.[1] She is also an engineer and was the co-editor for Escape Pod, along with Mur Lafferty,[2] through April 8, 2022.[3]

Her debut novella, Runtime, published by Tor.com, was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella.[4] It was also optioned for film and television adaptation for Escape Artists.[5] The indie game Rogue Wizards, released by Spellbound Studios, features her writing.

Her debut novel, Machinehood, was published in 2021 by Saga Press, and received both high praise, with one reviewer describing it as upgrading Asimov's laws of robotics,[6] but also criticism for not going far enough in its exploration of ideas.[7][8] Divya's second full-length novel, Meru, was published in 2023, and has been described both as surprisingly optimistic about the fate of humanity[9] and as an epic sci-fi in a unique world.[10] Her short story collection, Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations, is published by Hachette India.

  1. ^ Official Website: S. B. Divya.
  2. ^ Official Website: Escape Pod.
  3. ^ "Editorial Changes at Escape Pod," article in Locus, March 22, 2022.
  4. ^ Runtime - Nebula Awards 2016.
  5. ^ “S.B. Divya’s science fiction novel ‘Runtime’ to get movie adaptation”, AB Wire, The American Bazar, October, 2019.
  6. ^ Wilde, Fran (2021-03-02). "'Machinehood' Upgrades Asimov's 3 Laws Of Robotics". NPR. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  7. ^ Brookins, Jake Casella (2021-03-18). "An Unexamined Dystopia in "Machinehood"". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  8. ^ Shinjini (2021-05-26). "Dehumanized Labor: Review of Machinehood by S.B. Divya". Ancillary Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  9. ^ Keramalu, Karthik (2023-03-19). "'Meru' book review: A space odyssey". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  10. ^ Armstrong, Vanessa (2023-03-16). "A Different Kind of Speculative Future: Meru by S.B. Divya | Tor.com". Tor.com. Retrieved 2023-10-12.