Kuzhali Manickavel

Nov 25, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Shannon Fay |Rawad Alhashmi |Kuzhali Manickavel |Akis Linardos

Buried Deep and Other Stories is a fantastic smorgasbord for fans of Naomi Novik’s writing. It features several stories set in the same universes as her novels, as well as others that draw upon a wide swath of history and literature. You liked Novik’s Scholomance Trilogy (2020-2022)? There’s a story in here set after the end of the series. A fan of her novel Spinning Silver (2018)? You can read the prototype short story version of it here.

Nov 27, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Lune Loh |Rosamund Lannin |Kristy Anne Cox |Kuzhali Manickavel

I’m no longer bound to you. I’ve broken free from orbit,escaped your gravitational pulland pulled off my mask. Turns out I can breathe just finewhen my feet touch soil. It’s summer. Along the riverthe air is filled withthe music of cicadas. Emergingafter years underground. No longer bound to darkness. The night, the trees, standing readyto collect their songs and playthem back anew. That cis-tem is now only a speck. Barely visible, unlike the hairsprouting all over my body.

Nov 27, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Kuzhali Manickavel |Lune Loh |Rosamund Lannin |Kristy Anne Cox

My most hearty and luxurious greetings fam, hope all are doing well. Friends, I feel like I often start this column by saying I can’t remember what happened in the previous episode. Today, I honestly cannot remember a single thing that happened last time. Fam, so many things happened lately and my brain has been all over the place. I had to move! I am getting too old for this kind of lifestyle and now I’m not going to unpack anything because I will just have to repack and move again at some point.

Jul 24, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Hayley Wu |Maria Haskins |Kuzhali Manickavel |Ada Palmer

Content warning for this book: graphic violence; child abuse; sexism; references to war, murder, drugs; suicidal ideation. The Girl is Victory Witherkeigh’s debut novel. Its protagonist’s name is never revealed; she is only ever referred to as “the girl.” Like the author, she is Filipino American and grows up in Los Angeles in the 1990s. The girl’s parents plainly never wanted a daughter and make this very clear to her.

Jul 24, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Hayley Wu |Maria Haskins |Kuzhali Manickavel |Ada Palmer

Content warning:This page contains: Homophobia Trans misgendering or other transphobic depictionsIt was the summer of 2020 when xianxia webnovel Mo Dao Zu Shi (also known as The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation; henceforth MDZS) took over my life. Like many others at the time, I had returned and was stuck in my childhood bedroom, all plans to return to normal life falling apart as the gravity of a life-threatening global pandemic dawned upon me.