Wonderful Beautiful Nepal

The highly-addicting and extremely fun game that combines driving and skills is now available for mobile users on Android as Bike Racing android app has been released earlier this month of September 2015. The just released Android app for Bike Racing in Nepal is available on Android gadgets like Nexus tablets, Samsung Tablets and phones.  The game takes you to the year 2050 and is based on the future where there is no potholes and bad roads in Nepal. Also there is no dust. Bike Racing Nepal has become a very huge hit amongst casual gamers as it guarantees the players a lot of fun and craziness. Players only need to open the app and start and once they start driving, the fun will never stop. The game will surely fit those who enjoy passing time, and avoiding obstacles such as other cars.  The game has a score which increases the longer you can continue without bumping into traffic or obstacles. Well, the goal of the race is to make the players fail, so they should expect challe...

One year ago during the Storymoja Festival, I launched my book, A Killing in the Sun , a collection of short speculative stories, featuring African science fiction, fantasy and horror. The reception of the book has been, surprisingly, warm, at times awed, and at times an outright 'oh wow! Unbelievable!' I did not expect this. I thought it would be only me sweating it out to sweet talk people into buying it, but somehow the book has marketed itself. To celebrate a year in print, here are a few of the reviews, some from renown African writers like Binyavanga Wainaina, Zukiswa Wanner, and Beverly Nambozo. "...punchy and awkward and well worth reading." K. Kamo, in Strange Horizons Me, at the launch in Storymoja Festival 2014 "perfectly poised between the robustness of genre fiction and the more literary concern" Mark  Bould, in LA Review of Books "From the first page of the of the first story, I felt that surge of anticipation of the possibility of s...

We've seen many tourists in various stages of stomach upset at the Star View Guest House throughout the past year. And yes, we've even had two incidents of cross contamination from our own kitchen. Apologies can never be enough for someone who's suffered from a bacteria invasion. Assurances can only be met with skepticism because the causes are usually impossible to predict or avoid entirely. The saddest part of the stomach bug issue is that a person can never actually prove where they got it unless others who ate the same foods also becomes ill. Some of the bacteria can take weeks to become symptomatic while others show themselves before you finish eating. I've noticed a bit of pepper taste from the foods that have made me ill in the past, but I've never actually heard of that being a symptom. For our most recent guests who came down with the bacteria, I found something to share. However, although we fed over 10 people, only two developed symptoms. Of the two, one...