Gautam Bhatia

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Science Fiction. Constitutional Law. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

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Along with Westland Books, delighted to announce the open call for our inaugural speculative fiction anthology. Send in your stories and novelettes! Details + submission portal in the link just below below, and a brief summary in this thread. 🧵 sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

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

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Third Monday, so here's a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter! gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. - Open call for a new Indian SF anthology (details inside). - @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social debut novel out this week. - work by Mukoma wa Ngugi, Bécquer Seguín and others.

Words for Worlds - Issue LXXIVgautambhatia.substack.com Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter! Right, so the big news up first: for Westland Books, as part of their SF imprint IF, I will be editing an anthology of ...

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Last *TWO* days of the Strange Horizons fund-drive! We’re looking to meet our stretch goal of raising pay for our artists. To help us get there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Strange Horizons’ annual fund-drive now live! A host of special issues ( such as Afro-surrealist SF) if we get funded, and some amazing rewards on offer. Click to find out more and to donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Strange Horizons 2025www.kickstarter.com A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

Last *TWO* days of the Strange Horizons fund-drive! We’re looking to meet our stretch goal of raising pay for our artists. To help us get there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Strange Horizons 2025www.kickstarter.com A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

Such a good book.

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Story now out! www.grimdarkmagazine.com/grimdark-mag... If you give it a read, I’d love to know what you think.

Just signed contract: I’ll have a short story out in @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social’s July issue. It’s called “Waiting for the Witnesses”, an SF rendition of Konstantin Cavafy’s famous poem, “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Looking forward to sharing it very soon!

Grimdark Magazine Issue #39 out now!www.grimdarkmagazine.com Welcome to issue #39 of Grimdark Magazine! Grimdark is a state of mind; it is a style of storytelling that finds a home in just about every genre.

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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. some new Indian SF writing, classic Ghanaian SF, and more. As always, remember to subscribe if you want this in your inbox fortnightly!

Words for Worlds - Issue LXXIIIgautambhatia.substack.com Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds. A writing update: I have a new short story out, in the July issue of Grimdark Mag. It’s called ‘Waiting for the Witnesses,’ and it’s a...

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We're delighted to have met our base goal, and we're looking forward to bringing you more amazing SF through 2025!

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There are also many rewards left! Autographed book bundles @ the $100 tier. Tachyon Press signed books @ the $100 tier. And of course, our big one! Choose an SH special issue yourself, @ the $1500 tier. To check out all the rewards on offer: t.co/FHKziMN625

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At $16,500, we will publish a special issue on Ageing and SFF! At $18,000, we will raise our artist pay to $300 (more money for artists)! At $20,000 our fiction department will publish a novelette as part of our 2025 fiction calendar! If this sounds good: t.co/FHKziMN625

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At $15,000 (i.e., $1.5K more), we will have a special issue on Afro-Surrealist SF, guest edited by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu. To help us get there: t.co/FHKziMN625

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UPDATE: We have met our base goal and are funded through the end of 2025 (our 25th year of existence)! A massive thank you to everyone who donated! With twelve days left of the fund-drive, we are in stretch goal territory, and here's a lit of things we want to do next year:

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The SH special issues are something else. Please help this pillar of the SFF community continue to do the excellent and necessary work that they do

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‘The crayon glowed. It got so hot I dropped it, then it lay on the floor and whispered scary things to me until Mommy got home. She screamed a lot.’ Become IZ’s 68th patron and help me publish more stories like Matt H.’s ‘When I Was the Red Baron’, stories that speak to me, and get stuck in my head

‘The wax glowed and pulsed with my heartbeat. Still so pretty, that red.’ Get Matt’s new IZ 299 story when you become an IZ patron; plus stories by E.G. Condé, Rachael Cupp, and R. Wren; Nick Lowe’s latest Mutant Popcorn film reviews; Val Nolan looking 13 Ways at Christopher Priest; and much more 👇

INTERZONE #299 | INTERZONEwww.patreon.com Get more from INTERZONE on Patreon

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Great thread on Ismail Kadare, who passed away today. I recommend basically everything that Gautam recommends here. All sadly very timely too. (I read his work mostly in Hungarian translation, so I can't say much about the English translations)

Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88: www.theguardian.com/books/articl... One of my favourite writers of all time. If you haven't read his work so far, no better time than now to start. A brief thread:

Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88www.theguardian.com His allegorical stories, informed by life under state communism, drew international praise but he insisted that he was not a political writer

Story now out! www.grimdarkmagazine.com/grimdark-mag... If you give it a read, I’d love to know what you think.

Now under $1K away from meeting our base goal!

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‘Won’t you tell me your names?’ I want to publish more stories like R. Wren’s ‘Carrigan’. I want these stories to breathe, out in the world. If you’re able, become IZ’s 66th monthly patron and help sustain a short fiction mag that needs reader support to survive, and grow interzone.press/patreon

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Strange Horizons is SO CLOSE to reaching their base goal! A magazine publishing some of the most diverse and interesting stories with a distinct SH kind of bent. Please support your favorite magazines :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

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This is the only way writers should be with each other, tbh.

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Fund-Drive update: We've hit our next milestone - $11K - & unlocked "The Phonetics of Draconic Languages" by Leah Nodar. An essay? A story? A warning? You decide. strangehorizons.com/fiction/phon... We're under $2.5K away from our base goal. To get us there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

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I just pledged—who else is with me?

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I just pledged—who else is with me?

📣 We've just hit the magic figure of $10K, and can release a magical new short story by @premeesaurus, By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars -- strangehorizons.com/fiction/by-s... We're now getting closer to hitting our base goal of $13.5K. To help us reach it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Starsstrangehorizons.com When her bell sounded at midnight, Firion the wizard grasped her stoutest staff (crowned, for non-magical reasons, with a razor-sharp chunk of amethyst) and put her lips to the doorjamb. “Who goes …