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Not Departed

Mad Sisters of Esi

By Tashan Mehta  

22 Aug, 2025

Doing the WFC's Homework

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Tashan Mehta’s 20231 Mad Sisters of Esi is a stand-alone science fantasy novel.

The whale of babel is a baby universe inside our own2. Even a baby universe is very large. The whale of babel contains whole worlds, worlds whose inhabitants may well be ignorant of other worlds or the fact they live inside a vast, whale-shaped universe.

Myung and Laleh are well aware that they live inside the whale of babel, that they were created by the whale’s former lone companion Wisa when Wisa realized that the whale had grown too big for Wisa to comprehend on her own. For years, the sisters traveled together, exploring a small fraction of the realms inside the whale.

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