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Gautam Bhatia is an Indian speculative fiction writer, and the co-ordinating editor of Strange Horizons. He is the author of the science fiction duology, The Wall (HarperCollins India, 2020) and The Horizon (HarperCollins India, 2021). Both novels featured on Locus Magazine's year-end recommended reading list, and The Wall was shortlisted for the Valley of Words Award for English-language fiction. His short stories have appeared in The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction and LiveMint magazine.
He is based in New Delhi, India.
Gautam Bhatia in our archives
- Celebrating 25 Years with The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective, Podcasts, Issue 29 September 2025
- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2025, Non-Fiction, Issue 23 June 2025
- Call for Volunteers: Webmaster, Azimuth, Issue 5 May 2025
- Special Issue: Ageing and SFF, Azimuth, Issue 31 March 2025
- Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call, Azimuth, Issue 10 February 2025
- A Hugo Award - And More!, Azimuth, Issue 26 August 2024
- Call for Editors: Articles Editor, Azimuth, Issue 5 August 2024
- The Strange Horizons Fund Drive, Azimuth, Issue Fund Drive 2024
- Call for Editors: Social Media Editor and Accessibility Editor, Azimuth, Issue 29 January 2024
- 2023: What They Loved, Azimuth, Issue 18 December 2023
- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2023, Non-Fiction, Issue 14 August 2023
- The Strange Horizons Fund Drive, Azimuth, Issue Fund Drive 2023
- Star Trek and Extractivism: A Conversation with Una McCormack and Manu Saadia, Articles, Issue 22 May 2023
- New Staff Member Call: Social Media Editor, Azimuth, Issue 23 January 2023
- A Farewell to 2022, Azimuth, Issue 19 December 2022
- The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2022, Non-Fiction, Issue 17 October 2022
- SF+Extraction: An Interview with the London Science Fiction Research Community, Articles, Issue 26 September 2022
- “With every future we wish to create, we must first learn to imagine it”: an Interview with Chen Qiufan, Articles, Issue 26 September 2022
- Foreword: A Way of Seeing, Azimuth, Issue 26 September 2022
- Kalpavigyan, or Bengali SFF: An Interview with Dip Ghosh, Articles, Issue 27 June 2022
- Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James, Non-Fiction, Issue 18 April 2022
- Cyber Mage, by Saad Z. Hossain, Non-Fiction, Issue 14 February 2022
- The Wheel of Time: A Round-table Discussion, Articles, Issue 31 January 2022
- 2021: What They Loved, Azimuth, Issue 20 December 2021
- Foreword: On Friendship, Azimuth, Issue 29 November 2021
- Machinehood by S. B. Divya, Non-Fiction, Issue 22 November 2021
- Paying It Forward, Azimuth, Issue 15 November 2021
- Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes, Non-Fiction, Issue 18 October 2021
- "Across fracture lines": An Interview with Chandler Davis, Articles, Issue Fund Drive 2021
- Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Non-Fiction, Issue 13 September 2021
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, Non-Fiction, Issue 23 August 2021
- Staff Stories: Art Department, Articles, Issue 26 July 2021
- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine, Non-Fiction, Issue 1 March 2021
- New Horizons: A Conversation with the Editors of Rikka Zine, khōréō mag, and Constelación, Articles, Issue 22 February 2021
- Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee, Non-Fiction, Issue 15 February 2021
- Sea Change by Nancy Kress, Non-Fiction, Issue 11 January 2021
- Red Dust by Yoss, translated by David Frye, Non-Fiction, Issue 14 December 2020
- "Blackness is not monolithic": An Interview with Zelda Knight and Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald, Articles, Issue 24 August 2020
- "Heliocentrism and hierarchy": An Interview with Berit Ellingsen, Articles, Issue 22 June 2020
- Difficult Loves: Speculative Delhi, Staff Stories, Issue Fund Drive 2020
- "Writing queer joy is a radical act": An Interview with Innocent Chizaram Ilo, Articles, Issue Fund Drive 2020
- "The lost and disappeared voice": An interview with Ibtisam Azem, Articles, Issue Fund Drive 2020
- On Worldcons and Passport Privilege: An Interview with Rafeeat Aliyu, Articles, Issue 25 May 2020
- Strange Horizons Awards Eligibility: Nonfiction in 2019, Azimuth, Issue 2 March 2020
- David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Reviews, Issue 9 December 2019
- Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu, Reviews, Issue 18 November 2019
- A Spy In Time by Imraan Coovadia, Reviews, Issue 11 November 2019
- A Spy In Time by Imraan Coovadia, Reviews, Issue 14 October 2019
- The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson, Reviews, Issue 29 April 2019
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, Reviews, Issue 15 April 2019
- An Interview with Doctor Hosam El-Zembely, Articles, Issue 28 January 2019
- A Glimmer of Silver by Juliet Kemp, Reviews, Issue 26 November 2018
- Colony by Leigh Matthews, Reviews, Issue 22 October 2018
- Remaking the Difference: A Discussion about Indian Speculative Fiction, Articles, Issue 30 April 2018
- Zelaldinus: A Masque by Irwin Allan Sealy, Reviews, Issue 30 April 2018
- Heaven on Earth, by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Sawad Hussain, Reviews, Issue 12 March 2018
- "Cities overwhelm and infiltrate the senses": An Interview with Krish Raghav, Articles, Issue 27 November 2017
- Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan, Non-Fiction, Issue 30 October 2017
- The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, Non-Fiction, Issue 14 August 2017
- Half-Doubt, Half-Possibility: The 2017 Clarke Award Shortlist Part II, Non-Fiction, Issue 24 July 2017
- Half-Doubt, Half-Possibility: The 2017 Clarke Award Shortlist Part I, Non-Fiction, Issue 24 July 2017
- The Waterdancer's World by L. Timmel Duchamp, Non-Fiction, Issue 29 May 2017
- Leila by Prayaag Akbar, Non-Fiction, Issue 22 May 2017
- “This radical uncertainty concerning the future”: A roundtable on “Iraq +100” and Arabic SF, Articles, Issue 24 April 2017
- The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Reviews, Issue 6 February 2017
- "The rural often represents the possibility of accepting change in many forms": An Interview with Aliya Whiteley, Articles, Issue 22 January 2018
- Introducing: 100 African Writers of SFF, Azimuth, January 18, 2017
- Half of What I Say by Anil Menon, Reviews, Issue 12 December 2016
- Super Extra Grande by Yoss, Reviews, Issue 28 November 2016
- Kingfisher by Patricia A. McKillip, Reviews, Issue 12 September 2016
- SF is the Genre of the City: An Interview with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Articles, Issue 27 June 2016
- Azanian Bridges by Nick Wood, Reviews, Issue 6 June 2016
- The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton, Reviews, Issue 16 May 2016
- The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood, Reviews, Issue 14 December 2015
- The Strange Horizons Book Club: The Girl in the Road, Articles, Issue 30 November 2015
- The Weightless World by Anthony Trevelyan, Reviews, Issue 19 October 2015
- Hard To Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Reviews, Issue 2015 Fund Drive Special
- J by Howard Jacobson, Reviews, Issue 13 October 2014