Makena Metz

Sep 1, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | William Shaw |Makena Metz |Calie Voorhis |Ng Yi-sheng

In his creative writing manual The Art of Fiction (1992), David Lodge dedicates an entire chapter to the use of lists. His main case study is a passage from F.

Aug 30, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | David Hebblethwaite |Makena Metz |Calie Voorhis |Ng Yi-sheng

Time is a central concern of The Liquid Land, the first novel by Austrian writer Raphaela Edelbauer, and also her first to appear in English translation. Time grinds to a halt for Ruth Schwarz one day in 2007, when she learns that her parents have died in a car accident:For an endless morning I lay silently in my nightwear, alternating between lying on my side, my stomach, and my back.

Aug 28, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | M. L. Clark |Makena Metz |Calie Voorhis |Ng Yi-sheng

Readers of Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy cannot call themselves strangers to nihilistic cosmology. This trio of strongly physics-forward science fiction novels navigates bleak possibilities not only for alien life and first contact scenarios, but also around humanity’s ability to rise above paranoia, trauma, cruelty, and related self-destructive impulses to save itself.

Aug 28, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Ng Yi-sheng |Makena Metz |Calie Voorhis |Aishwarya Subramanian

After 22 years, it’s finally happening. R. S. A. Garcia is publishing a novel with a major press. Her Caribbean mythology-inspired sci-fi/fantasy epic The Nightward will be released by Harper Voyager in the fall of 2024. “I wanted to be a writer from the time I was eighty ears old,” she tells me.“I would buy Reader’s Digest, I would buy The World’s Book of Publishers, to help me on my search.

Aug 28, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Aishwarya Subramanian |Dan Hartland |Makena Metz |Calie Voorhis

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, the critic and reviewer Paul Kincaid joins Aisha and Dan to discuss how and why critics persevere in their work, what changes about it as the platforms and delivery mechanisms that surround criticism shift, and the challenges that face those writers who seek to collect or look back on their previous work.