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Aug 21, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Amal Singh |Jonathan Strahan
In the small city of Mehranpur, the Nawab suspects there may be a connection between the slow wasting of a beloved tree and the fate of the city itself. The Nawab of Mehranpur stopped smoking his hookah and looked up at the new khansama through a thick haze of smoke. The cinnamon-infused hashish cloud made lazy wisps around the Nawab’s ruby-studded fingers, clouding his vision.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
kara.reviews | Jonathan Strahan |Kara Babcock
Years and years ago, I said that my love for space opera was dimming. Space opera has always been one step away from science fantasy, of course, but I was getting bored with how same same all the nanotech-fuelled, AI-high stories seemed to feel. In the last couple of years, something has changed.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Lavie Tidhar |Force Alone |Jonathan Strahan
Unknown forces attempt to stop Judge Dee and Jonathan from transporting a mysterious and possibly dangerous prisoner, who holds a secret about the Judge, to an executioner in France… 1. The horses were skeletal and plumes of steam came in great huffs from their noses as they galloped through the night. Judge Dee and Jonathan sat in the coach on either side of the prisoner. The prisoner never spoke and neither did the judge. The driver whipped the horses, faster, faster.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
tor.com | Rachel Swirsky |Rovina Cai |Jonathan Strahan
Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest in peace while their grudges live on…Rosalee died, aged seventy-six. Her oldest sister, Irene (seventy-eight), blamed their middle sister, Viola (seventy-seven), for sending Rosie out front to check the mail when she knew Rosie’s inner ear condition was acting up.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
booksamillion.com | Jonathan Strahan
With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Dj l Clark, Amal El Mohtar, Garth Nix, Darcie Little Badger, Sheree Ren e Thomas, and two dozen other fantasy and science fiction geniuses bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction, witches, in never-before-seen works written exclusively for The Book of Witches, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan and illustrated by award-nominated artist Alyssa Winans.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
jonathanstrahan.com.au | Jonathan Strahan
2023 was a year when I edited two original anthologies, two Tordocom novellas, eleven of Tor.com’s short stories, and acted as reviews editor for Locus for the 21st consecutive year. As a podcaster, I co-hosted and produced a total of 19 episodes.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
tor.com | Lavie Tidhar |Jonathan Strahan
A new Judge Dee mystery!While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan discover the only thing more menacing than a vampire child is twin vampire children…1. The castle of Maidstone or Maid’s Stone sat alone on a hilltop above a forest not far from a town of the same name. No doubt legend told that a maid was put to death by stoning there, or something equally horrid; in Jonathan’s experience this was usually the case.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
tor.com | Alex Irvine |Jonathan Strahan
It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employee for the government agency begins to wonder if work is following her home. . . Thursday, 8:47 a.m. Leelee’s second cup of coffee hasn’t even worked its pitiful magic yet, she hasn’t finished deleting all her work emails or swiping down through the office Slack channel just so it’s resting on the current message if her supervisor happens to come by and notice.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
tor.com | Ken Liu |Mary Haasdyk |Jonathan Strahan
A woman who fears she’s failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her favorite poets and finds something even more wondrous, but also more impossible to capture on canvas… Kay turns right when she reaches the cove shore, away from the wind; it’s nice not to have the howling December wind in her face for a while, each blast the stroke of a sandpaper palm across her cheeks.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
reactormag.com | Ken Liu |Jonathan Strahan
A woman who fears she’s failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her favorite poets and finds something even more wondrous, but also more impossible to capture on canvas… Kay turns right when she reaches the cove shore, away from the wind; it’s nice not to have the howling December wind in her face for a while, each blast the stroke of a sandpaper palm across her cheeks.
