Gautam Bhatia

Gautam Bhatia is an award-winning speculative fiction writer, reviewer, and editor. He is the author of The Wall and The Horizon, an SFF duology that was longlisted for the Locus Awards. The Fifth Inflection was originally published in India as The Sentence, and was the winner of the 2025 Ignyte Award for best adult novel. Bhatia has edited the first two volumes of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF. He is also the co-ordinating editor of Strange Horizons, a weekly online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. During his tenure as co-ordinating editor, Strange Horizons has won the British Fantasy Award, and the Hugo Award. In his spare time, he is a constitutional lawyer, practicing at the Supreme Court of India.