M.C. Childs

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.

Nov 20, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Amritesh Mukherjee |M.C. Childs |Susannah Rand |Catherine Rockwood

“The first words were born in the voices of the first Speakers.” (p. 285)Close your eyes and think. Think of words as living beings. Not the living, breathing entities that can be meek or overbearing as we know them in our minds, but physical, sentient beings with emotions, personalities, and speech. Anxious might trot and stutter at infrequent intervals, fretting about the state of the world and the hiccups she’s been having throughout the week.

Nov 19, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Susannah Rand |Claire McNerney |M.C. Childs |Catherine Rockwood

https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/staging/2024-10-19/390122725-44100-2-5a1f704b52b85.m4aIn this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Little Lila by Susannah Rand, read by Claire McNerney. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: SpotifyLike this:Like Loading... Susannah Rand was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and has since been trapped in a vortex that prevents her from leaving. Despite this, she lives happily with her two cats and partner.

Nov 18, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | M.C. Childs |Catherine Rockwood |Amritesh Mukherjee |David Lewis

Content warning:Show warningsSomehow we’re now Harold Lloyd/Jackie Chan, letting go of the minute hand, droppingourselves right onto Magritte’s moving steam locomotive:If we time it just rightI bet we could get it tocatch us,dead on thetailbone. Right betweenthe washout plugsand whistle. Zero-backspin earthunder us, itty bittycloudsall around us. Like this:Like Loading...