Julie Shiel

May 5, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Tina Zhu |Avra Margariti |Angela Liu |Julie Shiel

Time travel has deep roots in speculative fiction on both the screen and the page: but from the 1989 movie Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to the more recent novel This Is How You Lose the Time War, popular media has increasingly used the time travel trope as a way for our protagonists to fix their mistakes by going back into the past. In the previous examples, where time travel is framed as a solution to our protagonists’ problems (Bill and Ted) or simply part of the job (Time War).

May 3, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Duncan Lawie |Avra Margariti |Angela Liu |Julie Shiel

Paul McAuley once described his pair of Jackaroo novels as a trilogy without the difficult middle volume. It may be that he has gone one better in Beyond the Burn Line by condensing two parts into a single book. The transition between these halves might have been easier, though, if there had been a set of covers or a publishing gap between them. As it was, I found the switch between the novel’s two sections,“Archaeologies of Memory”and “The Other Mother,” quite disconcerting.

Jan 30, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Romie Stott |Avra Margariti |Angela Liu |Julie Shiel

Content warning:This page contains: Death/dying Sexism/gender discriminationThis mourning poem was assembled by poetry editor Romie Stott using text from reviews editor Maureen Kincaid Speller’s writing published in Strange Horizons between 2006 and 2022, as a posthumous tribute. This is not an exhaustive survey. even though it is about a child, it doesn’t fit comfortably with our current understandinglike a treasure huntthe noonday train, seen but never heard. And what else passes once a day?