FrostByte falls primarily under the cyberpunk genre but I’ve been marketing it as a Desi Cyberpunk book. Mostly because unlike the typical cyberpunk settings that are usually taking place in neo-tokyoesque futuristic versions of Western cities, FrostByte is set very firmly in a South Asian landscape. It’s an indeterminate amount of time in the future so the world as we know it today geographically doesn’t quite exist anymore but the culture and the people are very visibly Brown and South Asian.

I’m not going to lie, though, blending the two widely different aesthetics together did pose as major challenge. Cyberpunk is often very isolationist in that the culture is often very ‘every man for themselves’ kind of vibes while South Asians are very family oriented and big on a sense of community. So, blending the two together while staying true to both in essence was an interesting experience but I’m very happy with the end result and I hope that it’ll come through when the readers will pick up the book.