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Happy Gooner.

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Working on an obituary for Mario Vargas Llosa, going over my notes on his novels spanning a decade … it’s like meeting many different versions of yourself, and of the writer, through time.

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Last day to vote in the Locus Awards!

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Just finished a re-read of Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie (after a decade), for this month’s meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle. I’d forgotten just how brilliant the collection is - and also how very resistant to any kind of taxonomy, in the best of ways. That last story…

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In honor of its Hugo nomination for Best Related Work, Track Changes has been noted by two of the field's top critics. First up, it is mentioned in @gautambhatia88.bsky.social latest Words for Worlds newsletter: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

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Public voting for the 2025 Locus Awards is open till April 15. THE SENTENCE has been long-listed in the best SF novel category, along with a ton of great work. If you’re so inclined, the voting link (open to all) is available here: poll.voting.locusmag.com

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This Thursday, at JNU. Come by!

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The rare, clear sunset over Sonepat.

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This Thursday, at JNU. Come by!

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A seminar on the history of science fiction’s imagination of the future through the years, at APU Bhopal: the students asked some fantastic questions, and made me wish that English lit departments had organised talks on SF when I was a student.

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Public voting for the 2025 Locus Awards is open till April 15. THE SENTENCE has been long-listed in the best SF novel category, along with a ton of great work. If you’re so inclined, the voting link (open to all) is available here: poll.voting.locusmag.com

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I’ll be speaking on speculative fiction and alternative futures this Friday evening, in Bhopal. Please drop by if you’re free.

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It's cover reveal day for An Unbreakable World! Another stunning design by @domforbes.bsky.social— see it at The Nerd Daily 🚀 #AnUnbreakableWorld is a standalone novel set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars, out this fall from @solarisbooks.bsky.social 💫 thenerddaily.com/exclusive-co...

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Reminder: SF and the future, tomorrow in Bhopal.

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“The Book of Expectations”: In today’s New Indian Express, an interview about The Indian Constitution: Conversations with Powers; focusing on how the constitutional design informs many present political issues. t.co/fPAJL5DuRf

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It’s the first Monday of the month, so here is a new issue of Words for Worlds - the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... Remember to subscribe if you’d like this in your inbox fortnightly!

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Big prize if you can guess which team I support.

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Oh, thank you! 💚💚💚

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I’ll be speaking on speculative fiction and alternative futures this Friday evening, in Bhopal. Please drop by if you’re free.

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It’s the first Monday of the month, so here is a new issue of Words for Worlds - the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... Remember to subscribe if you’d like this in your inbox fortnightly!

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Strange Horizons is a finalist in the semiprozine category at the 2025 Hugo Awards. Thank you to everyone who voted, and many congratulations to all fellow-finalists. seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

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Strange Horizons is a finalist in the semiprozine category at the 2025 Hugo Awards. Thank you to everyone who voted, and many congratulations to all fellow-finalists. seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

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Thanks so much for such a thoughtful engagement with THE SENTENCE!

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Very much not part of tight deadline hell, but I just finished The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia and really wanted to talk about it regardless. Not just for the fascinating problem at its core, which I've seen rightly discussed by many, but also the little niggle I found myself dwelling on:

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Thanks so much for such a thoughtful engagement with THE SENTENCE!

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Might have somewhat rashly agreed to a commission to write a 6000-word history of Indian science fiction, due in June...

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In today’s @hindustan-times.bsky.social, a piece on the Supreme Court’s free speech judgment in the Imran Pratapgarhi case, and how it should inform the courts’ approach in other, ongoing free speech cases. How the Supreme Court spoke out for free speech — www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/how-...

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I need a singing companion to duet this with. Now taking applications.

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A detailed conversation out today, with @moneycontrol.bsky.social, about The Indian Constitution: a Conversation with Power -- www.moneycontrol.com/books/gautam...

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. @thewheeloftime.bsky.social’s ‘The Hills of Tanchico’ is absolutely earworm-inducing. This show’s version of Toss a Coin to Your Witcher.

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Another excellent episode - S3E6 of @thewheeloftime.bsky.social.

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Cannot wait to dig in @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

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Reading @gautambhatia88.bsky.social s The Indian Constitution: A Conversation With Power. As w/his previous books on the topic it is meticulously detailed for a layperson, partly above my head anyway. Soberingly shows how it has been shaped, interpreted over time to grant central govt immense power.

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Thank you to @danhartland.bsky.social for a gorgeous review of THE SENTENCE in the latest issue of Foundation.

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Delighted to have commissioned and edited this fantastic essay by Isabel Black for our Strange Horizons special issue on ageing in SFF. "Grannies Against Oppression" explores the role of the elders in resisting tyranny, through the lens of the The Expanse: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Thank you to @danhartland.bsky.social for a gorgeous review of THE SENTENCE in the latest issue of Foundation.

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Delighted to have commissioned and edited this fantastic essay by Isabel Black for our Strange Horizons special issue on ageing in SFF. "Grannies Against Oppression" explores the role of the elders in resisting tyranny, through the lens of the The Expanse: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Great issue, this - George Elliot, Alexandre Dumas, Tate Modern! Also, some science fiction (great special section on the SF of the 1870s). On top of everything, includes my review of @gautambhatia88.bsky.social's The Sentence. TL;DR: it's good, gang. And yes, it really does have flying cars.

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It's the fifth Monday of the month, so here is a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. Mikhail and Margarita, Red Internationalism, a new review of THE SENTENCE, and more.

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It's the fifth Monday of the month, so here is a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. Mikhail and Margarita, Red Internationalism, a new review of THE SENTENCE, and more.

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