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Gautam Bhatia

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Gautam Bhatia is an Indian science fiction writer.

He is the author of The SENTENCE (to be published as THE FIFTH INFLECTION in the US and the UK in 2027), which won the Ignyte Award for Best Adult Novel in 2025. He is also 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 fanta ...more

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The Sentence

UPDATE: THE SENTENCE - which won the Ignyte Award for best adult novel in 2025 - will be coming out in the US (Saga Press) and the UK (Solaris) in January 2027, with a new title: THE FIFTH INFLECTION. I will share the Goodreads link to the book once it's up.

My new SF novel, The Sentence, is now out wherever books are sold, and online to order:

https://www.amazon.in/Sentence-Gautam...

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	The Wall (Sumer, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 277 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 4.53 avg rating — 214 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) 4.13 avg rating — 91 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
	The Sentence 4.35 avg rating — 82 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
	Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution 4.49 avg rating — 75 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
	Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution, the Courts and the State 4.41 avg rating — 54 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 4.17 avg rating — 35 ratings — 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 Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power 4.47 avg rating — 17 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 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 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.”
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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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