Nicola Lombardi

Jan 29, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Aishwarya Subramanian |Dan Hartland |Nicola Lombardi |Guy Goffette

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss a recent essay by Jake Casella Brookins that appeared in the Ancillary Review of Books. “The vaunted prophylactic prophecy of science fiction—the ability to prevent an undesirable future by loudly predicting it—has consistently proven false,” argues Brookins, and so Aisha and Dan ask themselves: what good, and bad, might SF do?

Jan 29, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | William Shaw |Nicola Lombardi |Guy Goffette |Elle Engel

“That’s right, I’m doing lockdown material.” So spoke Alexei Sayle in the most recent series of his Imaginary Sandwich Bar radio show. “You don’t want to hear it, I don’t want to do it, but this stuff happened to me!” As we enter the fifth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a tendency in popular media to try and bury what has happened.

Jun 26, 2023 | samovar.strangehorizons.com | Nicola Lombardi |Guy Goffette |Elena Pavlova |Gábor Képes

She's old and she tattoos only things of the past. Her license is the oldest one. Her parlor is old, too, in the dead center of the ethnographic quarter. The parlor window has a built-in view of the sea. When I ask after her tattoo style, she answers: "Traditional nü-US mostly." She owns also Japanese-Korean and Chinese Post-Epidemic but hasn't used them often. Her Australian module has been damaged in the riots. I'm here with her because I'm thlogging about all things of the past.

Feb 27, 2023 | samovar.strangehorizons.com | Renan Bernardo |Gábor Képes |Nicola Lombardi |Guy Goffette

- 1 -I was conceived by a carpenter with quivering hands in the back of a lumberyard. She was called Anatólia. Some days she had to fix flaws, sawing one or two parts of me again. On other days she hurled chunks of me against the wall, screaming at the bashful furniture she’d built, lined against the far wall. If she knew she’d bestowed consciousness on me with her art, perhaps she’d have other thoughts. I didn’t care.