S. B. Divya

Born in Pondicherry, India, as Divya, her given name, S.B. Divya immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was five. Her father was a professor of business administration and her mother was a software engineer. The S in her pen name stands for her patronym, Srinivasan, and the B stands for Breed, her husband's surname.“It’s never too late to educate yourself or start a new career: sci-fi writer SB Divya”, Aekta Kapoor, [https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/its-never-too-late-to-educate-yourself-or-start-a-new-career-sci-fi-writer-sb-divya-5798801.html moneycontrol.com], September 05, 2020.

Divya holds a BS degree from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with a major in Computation and Neural Systems, and an M.Eng. in Signal Processing from the University of California, San Diego. Her interests and hobbies include hiking, snowboarding, scuba diving, mountain biking, oil painting, and reading. She has been a disc jockey and is eclectic in her musical tastes.Nature.“The story behind the story: The egg”. Colin Sullivan, [http://blogs.nature.com/futureconditional/2015/03/11/the-story-behind-the-story-the-egg/ Future Conditional], March 11, 2015. This was followed by several short stories in various magazines, including Analog, Lightspeed, and Mothership Zeta.

S.B. Divya’s debut novella, Runtime, is about a gruelling race across the Sierra Nevada among those equipped with exoskeletal and internal human enhancements.“Book Review: Runtime by S.B. Divya” [https://sfbluestocking.com/2016/08/29/book-review-runtime-by-s-b-divya/ SF Bluestocking], August 29, 2016. Human enhancement also features in her first novel, released in March of 2021 titled Machinehood, which is about the conflicts arising from the perceived rights of sentient robots and enhanced humans in a gig economy.“The Humanity of Machinehood”, [http://hugoclub.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-humanity-of-machinehood.html Hugo Book Club Blog], February 15, 2021.

Her vision of the future in her writings is conditioned by the scientific method that she was schooled in during her years at Caltech."Science Fiction or Speculative History? David Brin and Divya Srinivasan Breed, [https://www.techer.caltech.edu/david-brin-and-divya-srinivasan-breed Techer:the Caltech Alumni Association Annual], 2016/17. An example of this is the conflict between artificial intelligence and humanity that she envisions in Machinehood. As Ray Kurzweil notes in his review of the book, “From the opening manifesto to its ingenious technologies, Machinehood builds an inspiring and believable vision of the future that is both thought-provoking and hopeful. It will leave you wishing that tomorrow could arrive a little sooner.”[https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/15604/machinehood#reviews BookBrowse - Your guide to exceptional books]

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Divya worked as a signal processing engineer and data scientist for several years. She holds multiple patents in pulse oximetry and signal processing. Her patents in pulse oximetry are antecedents to the Masimo Corp's iSpO2® Pulse Oximeter for home use.{{CN|date=July 2023}}

• Loka (2024)
• Meru (2023)
• Machinehood (2021)

• Runtime (2016)

• Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations (2019)

• [https://laksamedia.com/where-the-stars-rise-an-anthology-for-a-cause/ Where the Stars Rise] (2017)
• [https://www.hachetteindia.com/TitleDetails.aspx?titleId=46653 The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction: Ed. Tarun K. Saint] (2019)
• Escape Pod: The Anthology (ed.) (2020)
• [http://defyingdoomsday.twelfthplanetpress.com/rt_toc/ Rebuilding Tomorrow] (2020)

• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2493002 Soft We Wake] (2019)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2639165 Dusty Old Things] (2019)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2410205 Loss of Signal] (2018)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2312184 Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse] (2018)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2279498 An Unexpected Boon] (2017)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2266995 Looking Up] (2017)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2163702 Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story] (2017)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2262088 Nava] (2017)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2073341 Gaps of Joy, and a Knot for Love] (2016)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2120900 The Boy Who Made Flowers] (2016)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2125999 Binaries] (2016)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1862184 Ships in the Night] (2015)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1864865 The Egg] (2015)
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1747093 Strange Attractors] (2014)
• "Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold" (2022)

• [http://d.org/2017/03/31/ep569-safe-harbour-artemis-rising-3/ EP569 Safe Harbour(Artemis Rising)], by Kristene Perron
• [https://escapepod.org/2017/09/14/ep593-planetbound/ EP593 Planetbound], by Nancy Fulda; read by S.B. Divya & Trendane Sparks
• [http://escapepod.org/2018/03/15/escape-pod-619-a-study-in-symmetry-or-the-chance-encounter-of-an-android-and-a-painter-artemis-rising/ EP619 A Study in Symmetry, or the Chance Encounter of an Android and a Painter(Artemis Rising)], by Jamie Lackey; read by Trendane Sparks & S.B. Divya

• [http://podcastle.org/2018/05/22/podcastle-523-never-yawn-under-a-banyan-tree/ PC523 Never Yawn Under a Banyan Tree], by Nibedita Sen

• [http://www.castofwonders.org/2018/10/cast-of-wonders-327-memories-of-mirrored-worlds/ CW327 Memories of Mirrored Worlds], by Barbara A. Barnett

• [http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-246-sankalpa/ BCS246 Sankalpa], by Marie Brennan

• [https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/runtime/ Runtime] - Nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella
• [http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2018-hugo-awards/ Escape Pod] - Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
• Escape Pod - Nominated for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
• [https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-982148-06-5 Machinehood] - Starred review in the Publishers Weekly

{{Reflist}}

• [https://sbdivya.com Official Website]
• [https://sbdivya.com/fwords Blog]
• [https://machinehood.com Machinehood]
• [https://escapepod.org/about-us/ Escape Pod]
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?205470 Internet Speculative Fiction Database]
• [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14797585.2024.2364631 Analysis of Machinehood]

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