David Hebblethwaite

Dec 11, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | David Hebblethwaite

Ali Smith’s new publishing project takes a step into the near future, and it’s a future of banal oppression. Young siblings Briar (our narrator) and Rose return home with Leif, their mother’s boyfriend, to find a red line painted around their house. Leif takes them away in the campervan to a supermarket car park—only for a red line to appear there in the morning, and the van to be towed away.

Dec 11, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | David Hebblethwaite |Aishwarya Subramanian |Dan Hartland |Paul Kincaid

Ali Smith’s new publishing project takes a step into the near future, and it’s a future of banal oppression. Young siblings Briar (our narrator) and Rose return home with Leif, their mother’s boyfriend, to find a red line painted around their house. Leif takes them away in the campervan to a supermarket car park—only for a red line to appear there in the morning, and the van to be towed away.

Aug 30, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | David Hebblethwaite |Makena Metz |Calie Voorhis |Ng Yi-sheng

Time is a central concern of The Liquid Land, the first novel by Austrian writer Raphaela Edelbauer, and also her first to appear in English translation. Time grinds to a halt for Ruth Schwarz one day in 2007, when she learns that her parents have died in a car accident:For an endless morning I lay silently in my nightwear, alternating between lying on my side, my stomach, and my back.

Apr 28, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | David Hebblethwaite |Rabbit Sullivan |Tania Chen |Dawn Vogel

At one point in this latest novel by Irish writer Sophie White, we come across what would be a suitable motto for the book, which creates a whole microcosm of fairy-tale horror without a trace of the supernatural: “Apparitions are scary,” its narrator, Aoileann, tells us, “but the real horror is to be found in people.”Aoileann lives on an island with her mother Aoibh and paternal grandmother (“Móraí”).