Ng Yi-sheng

Dec 31, 2023 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Ng Yi-sheng |Kate Baker

Skip to content Podcast, Original Fiction TEXT VERSION Our fifth podcast for December is “The World's Wife” written by Ng Yi-Sheng and read by Kate Baker. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:14 — 12.7MB)Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS | More Ng Yi-Sheng is a writer and activist from Singapore.

Dec 1, 2023 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Ng Yi-sheng

You see that planet? That’s your husband, Mrs. Pang. Our best guess? Asphyxiation, within fifteen seconds of his release from the escape pod. By the way, did you know bodies don’t explode in the vacuum of space? Common myth. The extraction team’s assembled a full report on the site of the Angkasa 3000 disaster. They’ve examined the wreckage, located the remains of all crew members, transported them to the base for memorial and study—and in your husband’s case, funeral arrangements.

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.