Expected publication date: Spring 2025. An 8” x 5” novella.

Set in an alternate version of the British Isles where South Asian imperial interest colonized much of the globe thanks to their advanced technology, Professor Laxman Yadav is dating Saviour, one of the world’s most famous superheroes, while also investigating possibly the most important archeological find of all time. Equal parts pulp caper and meta-textual academic text, this novella leans as heavily on footnotes as it does on explorations of queer romance.

Cover illustration by Veshalini Naidu. Cover design by dave ring.

ISBN: 978-1-952086-94-6

PRAISE

"Sharang Biswas often reaches dizzying heights with his prose, but never more than when every word is horny. Like a sexed-up superhero, he circumnavigates a world rife with alternate history, intricate worldbuilding, and rampant comic-book tropes.This grinning thirst trap of a book deserves your full attention. Luxuriate in it." 
—Cecilia Tan, author of Slow Surrender

“The Iron Below Remembers will ensnare you in a enchanting puzzle of academia, politics, and horniness.”
—Eugenia Triantafyllou, author of “Joanna’s Bodies”

"A delightful mashup between the superhero, romance, and epistolary fiction genres. Sharang Biswas achieves the impossible and makes footnotes jump—like a comic book hero—off the page! Readers will be cheering for Saviour and Laxman's love through its ups and downs, the super and mundane, and be left thirsting for more long after the story ends."
—Andrea Kriz, author of Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism: And Other Stories