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Gautam’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Gautam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Gautam Bhatia
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The Sentence
My new SF novel, The Sentence, is now out wherever books are sold, and online to order:
https://www.amazon.in/Sentence-Gautam...
The Sentence is at the boundary of science fiction, criminal law, and alternative political structures. Here is the blurb:
https://www.amazon.in/Sentence-Gautam...
The Sentence is at the boundary of science fiction, criminal law, and alternative political structures. Here is the blurb:
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What if you’ve been frozen in stasis for a hundred years for a crime you may or may not have committed?
An impoverished young man, Jagat, is found guilt
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| We read this book for the November 2025 meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle. It polarised opinion: some people loved it, some hated it, and then there were some - like me - who, in the words of one of our members, were “violently ambi ...more | |
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| Oh late, Adrian Tchaikovsky has taken to exploring ruined, post-apocalyptic landscapes as well (see e.g. Service Model). In Bee Speaker, a delegation of well-meaning and ill-prepared Martians, responding to a distress call, arrive on a blighted earth ...more | |
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| John Williams’ Stoner spent more than a year on my study table before I finally took it up. In hindsight, it’s probably a book you need some mental time to prepare for before you read it. The seemingly innocuous biography of a seemingly mediocre earl ...more | |
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| Oh late, Adrian Tchaikovsky has taken to exploring ruined, post-apocalyptic landscapes as well (see e.g. Service Model). In Bee Speaker, a delegation of well-meaning and ill-prepared Martians, responding to a distress call, arrive on a blighted earth ...more | |
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| We read this book for the November 2025 meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle. It polarised opinion: some people loved it, some hated it, and then there were some - like me - who, in the words of one of our members, were “violently ambi ...more | |
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"quietly devastating"
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| John Williams’ Stoner spent more than a year on my study table before I finally took it up. In hindsight, it’s probably a book you need some mental time to prepare for before you read it. The seemingly innocuous biography of a seemingly mediocre earl ...more | |
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I finally read Han Kang’s We Do Not Part. I think there’s a lot to say about the craft of this novel (including some oddly disjointed moments, although arguably that was the point), and perhaps even more to say about the undeniable brilliance of the ...more |
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| I continued my slow journey through the Alastair Reynolds backlist by picking up a second-hand copy of Century Rain at Bookworm bookshop in Bangalore. I’d never heard anything about this novel before, and after reading it, I’m placing it alongside Ho ...more | |
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I finally read Han Kang’s We Do Not Part. I think there’s a lot to say about the craft of this novel (including some oddly disjointed moments, although arguably that was the point), and perhaps even more to say about the undeniable brilliance of the ...more |
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“Like nothing you’ve felt before—but once you have, you know it’s the only thing that will ever feel real.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“Fraternity was the bridge that would make liberty and equality become ‘the natural course of things’.”
― The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
― The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
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