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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
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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)

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The Transformative Constitu...

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The Horizon (Sumer, #2)

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Between Worlds: The IF Anth...

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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

“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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