Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi

Mar 13, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Aaron Heil |Audrey Zhou |Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi |Toby MacNutt

Wesley Chu’s newest fantasy series specifically examines the impact of legend and military tradition on the lives of the protagonist, a prophesied hero, and the mentors he encounters along the way. The initial book in the series, The Art of Prophecy (2022), introduced Jian, literally designated Hero of the Tiandi, as well as his master Taishi, and shared their quest to fulfill Jian’s destiny: to defeat the Immortal Khan.

Mar 11, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Toby MacNutt |Audrey Zhou |Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi |Tristan Beiter

It is yours, after allin so far as any creatureowns another.

Mar 11, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Audrey Zhou |Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi |Toby MacNutt |Tristan Beiter

When Li built her first body, she didn’t know for a while what, exactly, she had done. She was too young to understand at the time. The corpse she found at the end of market day, curled at the foot of a fisherman’s stall; she didn’t notice the spirit until it had followed her inside. Li hadn’t met Granny Yuan yet, but perhaps some of her influence had found Li anyway: Li knew to bury the cat and wanted instinctively to find a jar to capture the spirit with, its light blinking like fireflies.

Mar 11, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Tristan Beiter |Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi |Toby MacNutt |Audrey Zhou

Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz is a delightful take on queer speculative fiction. The collection includes sixteen short stories that cover a wide range of contemporary matters through a set of fantastical possibilities. The stories are largely set in a world just a hair off from our own, bridging urban fantasy and fabulism and with only a single story (“Ah Well”) that can be easily classed as secondary world.

Mar 11, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi |Audrey Zhou |Toby MacNutt |Tristan Beiter

Nigeria has launched one of the world’s most advanced earth observation satellites.            —British Surrey Space Technology Limited. Initiation:scientist: catastrophic failure: NigeriaSat-1crashes & dissolves like molten magma intothe earth’s lungs. we need sonic waves to slow the movement causing cooling. cyborg: activate kill codes usingcoordinates of the nearest location—Zamfara. N12°11’ & E6°44’. strip it of its breath. insert distemper cords into its memory. erase all memories of existence.