Em Setzer

1 month ago | strangehorizons.com | Anushree Nande |Em Setzer |M.C. Childs |Elle Engel

“Language is pitiable when weighed against experience,” wrote Adina Giorno, the protagonist of Marie-Helene Bertino’s quietly stunning Beautyland (2024); perhaps true, but equally true is the transportive weight of Bertino’s writing, which allows us brief, but vital, glimpses of what it’s like to be in the shoes of the people she brings into existence in her stories.

1 month ago | strangehorizons.com | Vivian Wagner |M.C. Childs |Jenny Hamilton |Em Setzer

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell is an innovative science fiction novel that explores race, identity, and trauma in new and unexpected ways. It follows its characters after all the white people in the United States abruptly commit suicide, in what the novel refers to simply as “the event.” Those left behind after the event attempt to rebuild the world and their communities, and the novel describes these efforts on both personal and cultural levels.