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2 months ago | 
strangehorizons.com | Stephen Case |Gautam Bhatia |Caroline Hung |Jennessa Hester
The Mercy of Gods is the first volume of The Captive’s War, a new series from the author of the wildly successful The Expanse (2011-2022). That series (both books and television adaptation) managed to raise the stakes with every installment while making each feel satisfyingly self-contained.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Caroline Hung
CW: suicide, graphic violence, toxic relationships. The skies are a pitch-black void—cold, empty, unforgiving. Far from home, the rivers of heaven have run dry, the starlight scarce in this part of Father’s empire. Passing comets die out with a pathetic fizzle, and the migrating flocks of magpies care not to bridge the gap between star-crossed lovers. Spring may never arrive in the Cosmos, but here in its dark depths, the jagged hills of Tianliao Moon World stand nigh immutable.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Angela Liu |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Caroline Hung
On the bus, my mother presses her foreheadagainst the one-eyed vulture in the glassMissed calls,funeral bills,old pockets that smell ofpennies. We talk about medicationslike relatives no one wants to see. Don’t lookat the creature’s wrinklesthe burn scars along its neck and facelike rusted train tracks,its wet eyeshungry for decades-old debts.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Caroline Hung |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
Here goes the legend of Auntie Tigress. She hides sharp claws and fangs, and wears your mother’s face too well. In the dead of night, she lulls you to sleep with precious words. Hush now, sweet child, don’t cry. Your little fingers are safe with Auntie Tigress. Sleep now, dear one. When morning comes, your brother will still be alive, smiling and ready to play. Here goes the legend of Aunt Tiger. In the dead of night, she knocks at your doorstep. Rat-tat-tat, rat-tat-tat.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu |Caroline Hung |Non-FictionA Hugo Award
At the Glasgow WorldCon earlier this month, the 80+ members of our editorial collective, scattered around the world, experienced a novel sensation: at the Hugo Awards ceremony, after the nominees for the best semiprozine were announced, the sealed envelope opened, and the dramatic moment’s pause accomplished, the name that was read out was … Strange Horizons. Until this year, Strange Horizons had been a losing finalist at the Hugos every year since 2013.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu |Caroline Hung
HUGE DISCLAIMER: if you believe that revealing plot elements can spoil your reading process, please read the book first and come back afterwards. This will still be here. So this happened: Keanu Reeves and China Miéville (who hadn’t published any fiction since 2016, when he gave us the novellas The Last Days of New Paris and This Census-Taker) have collaborated on a novel.
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May 1, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | M. L. Clark |Caroline Hung |Arthur Manners |Emma Murray
Dystopian fiction often makes revolution look easy—thrilling, too. The enemy is clear to most everyone, and there’s an intuitive sense that the protagonist already knows most everything they need to know to defeat the baddie, bring down the oppressive state, and raise up a new world in its stead. Oh, sure, maybe the main character needs a little confidence, or support, or Just the Right Tool for the Job.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | William Shaw |Caroline Hung |Arthur Manners |Emma Murray
What did we want from a Kelly Link novel? Speaking purely for myself, the answer was, “I didn’t.” For more than two decades Link has produced world-class short fiction, some of it on the longer side, but all of it taking perfect advantage of the form—its fluidity, its permission to linger on well-chosen images, its ability to do without strict explanations.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Crystal Sidell |Caroline Hung |Arthur Manners |Emma Murray
The thing is; I don’t set out to write neurodivergent characters. I write people – fictional people who are drawn from the people around me, the way I experience the world, and my understanding of these experiences. Too bad if other people refuse to afford my experiences as being real or relatable.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Emma Murray |Caroline Hung |Arthur Manners |Crystal Sidell
My back drags along the riverbed,catching on rocks. Limbs flail with the currents thatsweep me over and undersomersaulting in continuous turnslike the acrobat I dreamt ofbecomingas a young child,under the spell of dazzling kaleidoscopic lights,smell of popcorn and buzz of circus music pumped through ancient speakers. The light teases me each trip ‘round,rippling through the barrage of bubbles and cutting through clear waterlike glass. The rays whisper with a giddiness, “There’s air up here. Waiting.
