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Sep 2, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Elis Montgomery |Emma Johnson-Rivard |Raven Jakubowski |Electra Pritchett
your (“spell”) sayscut a vein and stainthe pried petalsof a (“rose”) {but synthBlooms costtoo.pretty.a.penny andthe petals hold fast,live=longer than your (“ancestors”)did {and when you rendyour wristHatch open you cannot(“bleed”) for your lost.heritage {you can only tangleyour fingers+in the wires,pull to feel the zap.of.something that {in another (“life”);} couldn’t {be turned () off;}}}}
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Emma Johnson-Rivard |Raven Jakubowski |Elis Montgomery |Electra Pritchett
The corpsemongers down on Echo are selling human teeth again, little pearls of calcium passed hand to palm like benediction, and that means the pilot has to go down and check for eyeteeth. He’ll spend a month’s pay if they let him, and he’ll be worse than useless if they don’t. He’s hunting ghosts, the captain says, so let him be. But reel him back when it doesn’t pan out, would you? They rotate the duty, distasteful as it is, and Widow knows she’s come due.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Electra Pritchett |Emma Johnson-Rivard |Raven Jakubowski |Elis Montgomery
Can the University be a place of both training and transformation? Sofia Samatar’s slender novella The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain is, on the one hand, obviously science fiction. Set in a far future where a drowned Earth has long been abandoned and humanity has taken to the stars as refugees in a fleet of mining ships, the story concerns a woman who is a professor at the University on one of the Ships.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Electra Pritchett |Rebecca Schneider |Lydia O’Donnell |Nnadi Samuel
“We shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed.”Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy burst onto the scene in 2014 with Ancillary Justice, and in the decade since it’s almost become possible to forget how groundbreaking that book was, as the genre has rapidly changed in ways that made its innovations much more mainstream.
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May 19, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | E. C. Barrett |Eugenia Triantafyllou |Stephanie Chang |Electra Pritchett
Olivie Blake’s Alone With You in the Ether (Tor Books, 2022) is a messy, vulnerable story about two unusual people meeting, falling in love, and figuring out how their love can survive contact with the world—and their own troubled pasts. Blake is the author of the best-selling fantasy Atlas Series, which she self-published along with three other novels, including Ether.
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May 11, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Andy Sawyer |Eugenia Triantafyllou |Stephanie Chang |Electra Pritchett
There are clumsinesses and fascinations in this ambitious novel. What appear at first to be barriers to comprehension, though, are in fact among Daniel Vitale’s strengths. He presents a post-apocalypse world in which the USA has fallen apart after a series of climatic shifts, environmental catastrophes, and militia-led wars known as the Evanesence.
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May 9, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Andrew Kozma |Eugenia Triantafyllou |Stephanie Chang |Electra Pritchett
Content warning:This page contains: Blood Drug use Spiders/insectsin severall of the buts of beare, great heapes of stuff was found at the bottom of the buts not unlike to men’s guts, which has alarmed the sea men to a strange degre. —Admiral of the Fleet Edward RussellThere are the worms we bring with us, festooningour stomachs like crepe streamers. There are the wormswho bring themselves, ninjaed in the potting soil, wrappedaround roots, a filth-mouthed stomach.
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May 9, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Shannon Fay |Eugenia Triantafyllou |Stephanie Chang |Electra Pritchett
When I was a child I lived in a cookie-cutter suburb outside of Ottawa. It was a place of subdivisions and crescents, houses arranged in such a way that families could be walking-distance from the local schools. There was one house in town that stood out, an old stone building from the 1800s, a historical property with ties to a famous Canadian. The kids spread all kinds of rumors about it: that it was haunted, that the residents were witches, that a murder had happened there.
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May 9, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Mark Dimaisip |Eugenia Triantafyllou |Stephanie Chang |Electra Pritchett
Content warning:This page contains: Blood Body transformation Death/dyingCrimson blood. Midnight feathers. Small sacrifice. Father tells me. Kill quickly. Before the air thickens. Before the rotten arrives. Unable to find a landfowl,a neighbor offered their supper: wild lizards. When darkness dawned a black moon, talonscavorted on their nipa roof. The youngest was taken. Spirits came before us. Father reminds me. Payyour dues. Bow your head. Give way. Back down. He says when you enter doors, declare, Tao po.
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Mar 15, 2023 | 
strangehorizons.com | Electra Pritchett |Laura Grothaus |L. Acadia |Abhilash Jayachandra
For some time now I have been eagerly anticipating Where Black Stars Rise, a new graphic novel written by Nadia Shammas and illustrated by Marie Enger, an artist whose work I’ve been a fan of for a while. Set in Brooklyn in 2022, this book’s story follows two women who have both come to New York from West Asia: therapist-in-training Amal Robardin is Lebanese, while grad student and therapy patient Yasmin is Iranian.
