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Gautam Bhatia

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Gautam Bhatia is an Indian science fiction writer.

He is the author of the SF Duology, The Wall and The Horizon, both of which featured on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading Lists in 2021 (Best Debut Novel) and 2022 (Best Science Fiction Novel). The Wall was a finalist for the 2021 Valley of Words Best English Language Novel Prize. Bhatia was long-listed for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer at both the 2021 World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon), and the 2022 WorldCon.

Bhatia is also the co-ordinating editor of Strange Horizons, a weekly online magazine of fantasy and science fiction, which won the British Fantasy Award in 2021, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Awards every year since 2013. In 2022, he was nominated for a ...more

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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:

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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	The Wall (Sumer, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts 4.55 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Horizon (Sumer, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution 4.49 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sentence 4.45 avg rating — 65 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution, the Courts and the State 4.36 avg rating — 50 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, Vol 1 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Horizons Magazine, Issue December 5, 2022 by Gautam Bhatia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aimee Ogden (Goodreads Author), Devin S. Turk it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horizontal Rights: An Institutional Approach it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin

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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.”
― Gautam Bhatia, The Wall

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“Fraternity was the bridge that would make liberty and equality become ‘the natural course of things’.”
― Gautam Bhatia, The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts

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