Lune Loh

Nov 29, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Racheal Chie |Lune Loh |Rosamund Lannin |Ada Palmer

Dearly Departed is a novel about a young woman named Theodora Sharp, the granddaughter and protégé of Dorothea Sharp. It is a coming-of-age story, with the novel’s major themes being death and grief, while loneliness and family are its minor themes. Theodora—Teddy—is an orphan, a young genius who by the age of nine was the youngest piccolo player to play in a symphony, created a multinational company by fourteen, and graduated Massachusetts Institute of Technology at seventeen.

Nov 27, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Rosamund Lannin |Lune Loh |Ada Palmer |Kristy Anne Cox

[Spoilers for “The Voice in the Night,” Mexican Gothic, The Girl With All the Gifts, Ambergris, the X-Files episode “Field Trip,” and Star Trek: Discovery.]There’s something about mushrooms that gets our minds sporing. These spores sometimes take the form of stories: from Alice in Wonderland to Ray Bradbury’s “Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!” to Sheri S.

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 | Lune Loh |Rosamund Lannin |Kristy Anne Cox |Ada Palmer

you no longer have image. in photos your cheek² sharpens, vectors. Binary Star System That cis-tem is now only a speck. Out of the Damp and Dark: The Evolution of Mushrooms in Fiction Mushrooms didn’t exactly sweep sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, but much like their real-world inspiration they persisted, growing in the damp, dark crevices of the creative minds of every generation. They were a template for the anxieties of each age, seasoned with the fears of the era.

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.