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Rishika Sahgal @rishikasahgal.bsky.social · 1d

New article co-authored with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social published in @compconstudies.bsky.social on the vastly divergent approach of Indian courts on the right to housing in cases about home demolitions and evictions. It's open access for 3 months!

www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

www.elgaronline.com

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 1d

Happy World Octopus Day to those who celebrate, but especially to @essahansen.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social, and Ray Nayler.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 1d

@essahansen.bsky.social

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 1d

New article, just published in @compconstudies.bsky.social, on the Indian judiciary’s divergent approach to evictions and home demolitions.

“Evictions, meaningful engagement and the right to housing in India: two roads.”

Open access for the next three months: www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

www.elgaronline.com

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to this banger.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3d

As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this in your inbox fortnightly.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 3d

It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant:

gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

feat. In Farthest Seas, writing the sequel to THE SENTENCE, Strange Horizons @ 25, Einstein’s Dreams, and more.

Words for Worlds - Issue 105

Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds.

gautambhatia.substack.com

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If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social · 4d

Prior to the Solarpunk column, we put out an interview with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. Please take a listen if you haven't already itgodp.libsyn.com/the-sentence...

If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics: The Sentence with Gautam Bhatia

In this episode, Alan and Diane talk to scholar, laywer, and author Gautam Bhatia. They discuss Bhatia's book The Sentence, The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, Anarchism, the Paris Commune of 1...

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 6d

And listen to the whole podcast for reflections of our fabulous staff on 25 years of Strange Horizons.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 6d

For @strangehorizons.bsky.social 25th anniversary, I spoke about my (almost) decade at the magazine, its anarchic nature, changes in the genre space, editing SFF non-fiction, and how the extractivism special issue came to be imagined (starts at 1 hr 24 mins):

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Celebrating 25 Years with The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective

In this special episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Senior Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti and Editor Michael Ireland welcome current members of the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective for a series of…

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 7d

“All his life, Mahr Joon had borrowed time and spent it as though it would never end - and now, at last, time had run out.”

- W.I.P.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 9d

Had not found a properly immersive Wuxia show for a while, but Love of Nirvana is hitting all the notes. Chess-match style political intrigue, slow-burn romance, great songs, and excellent swordfighting choreography.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 10d

Will be injecting this directly into my veins.

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 10d

This collects almost every short I ever wrote except:
- Shorts set in the SotA universe (collected in the Tales of the Apt books)
- Most of the 2013 Feast and Famine collection (2 reprinted here)
- Recent shorts in the Tyrant Philosophers universe.

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 10d

Coming soonish from Subterranean Press - the first collection of my short fiction in about a decade - here's the cover (by @alisonsampson.bsky.social ) and table of contents for your delectation.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 10d

This collects almost every short I ever wrote except:
- Shorts set in the SotA universe (collected in the Tales of the Apt books)
- Most of the 2013 Feast and Famine collection (2 reprinted here)
- Recent shorts in the Tyrant Philosophers universe.

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 10d

Coming soonish from Subterranean Press - the first collection of my short fiction in about a decade - here's the cover (by @alisonsampson.bsky.social ) and table of contents for your delectation.

Book cover showing the glass bubble of a space helmet with a woman's face and hand reflected in it, and ants crawling over it.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 10d

Coming soonish from Subterranean Press - the first collection of my short fiction in about a decade - here's the cover (by @alisonsampson.bsky.social ) and table of contents for your delectation.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 12d

4700 words, chapter one. After many months of struggle, writing for the sequel to The Sentence *finally* under way!

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 13d

New #Bookpost from me to me a copy of Between Worlds - The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF vol 1 edited by Gautam Bhatia

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 14d

Ashoka folks: see you tomorrow for a talk and Q&A on writing science fiction - and the IF Anthology of New Indian SF!

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Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · 16d

‘Together, the 11 stories in this collection display the depth and breadth—in terms of subject, tone and style—that speculative fiction writing in India has achieved.’

Read @shrabonti.bsky.social’s review of Between Worlds, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/...

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 17d

In this month’s @readersdigest.bsky.social, a reading list for your bookshelves.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 18d

Folks: i'm still looking for work. I have a tentative thing that is supposed to start at the end of this month, but we are definitely going to need help with October rent (about USD $1250). I know everyone's life sucks right now and i'm SO tired of having to ask. But if you can help, please do:

Pay Utilitarienne using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/utilitarienne and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 19d

Get your copy here: www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/9371...

Buy Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, Vol 1 Book Online at Low Prices in India | Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, Vol 1 Reviews & Ratings - Amazon.in

Amazon.in - Buy Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, Vol 1 book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Read Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, Vol 1 book reviews ...

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you to LiveMint and @shrabonti.bsky.social for this excellent review of Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SF.

“Speculative fiction rooted in India, yet free”:

www.pressreader.com/india/mint-d...

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 20d

By some length, the most interesting (non-fiction) book that I’ve read recently.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 20d

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 21d

#SFFChat
The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social is criminally underrated - legal science fiction that examines whether two parties of unequal power can ever be truly equal under the law (amongst many other things)

SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 21d

#SFFChat Q3: What's a work of SFF that critiques the powerful and which appeals to you?

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 21d

#SFFChat
The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social is criminally underrated - legal science fiction that examines whether two parties of unequal power can ever be truly equal under the law (amongst many other things)

SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 21d

#SFFChat Q3: What's a work of SFF that critiques the powerful and which appeals to you?

An ink illustration of what looks like an Eastern European or Nordic queen on a throne surrounded by large candles. There is a floral border.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23d

Spoke to the Law and Other Things podcast about The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power —

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj2t...

Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power | Dr. Gautam Bhatia & Arnav Mathur | LAOT Podcast

YouTube video by NALSAR University of Law

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23d

One day late, but here’s the latest issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant:

gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

feat. a return to Chinese SFF, Between Worlds updates, and more.

As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like thjs in your inbox fortnightly!

Words for Worlds - Issue 104

Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 24d

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 24d

Book mail:

Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Was going to this new release anyway, but then found it online for half price so just grabbed it.

🪐📚💙 #booksky

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 24d

Book mail:

Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Was going to this new release anyway, but then found it online for half price so just grabbed it.

🪐📚💙 #booksky

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