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Sep 2, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Raven Jakubowski |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
It was Lafayette for me. He was the first,watching over the farmers market in the summer Square. I glanced up from choosing just-ripe tomatoes and found him looking at mewith a malevolent gaze. I was not the first to notice,and it was not just the Marquis. It was all the statues, all those human, inhuman faces,looking at us,displeased with what they saw. Maybe, we said,maybe the dead got wise,maybe it was them climbing in these bodiesclose enough to the ones they remember. Reaching distance.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Octavia Cade |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
John Wyndham (1903-1969) is one of my very favourite authors. I have a lot of his books on my shelves, so when I was offered this new collection to review I grabbed it with both hands, confident that I’d already read most of it. That proved to be the case—only one of the stories here was new to me. That’s because, as the book cover tells us (albeit in smaller font), this isn’t a new collection at all.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Vanessa Jae |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
In Arkady Martine’s Rose/House, vulturehood stands in contrast to personhood. It is an exploitive act of taking from the vulnerable, and the vulnerable are the first to have their agency—and thus their personhood—taken from them. Martine introduces the term “vulturehood” early on in the book, in connection with Basit Deniau, the architect of a mansion located in the Mojave Desert by China Lake, California, known as Rose House.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Angela Liu |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Caroline Hung
On the bus, my mother presses her foreheadagainst the one-eyed vulture in the glassMissed calls,funeral bills,old pockets that smell ofpennies. We talk about medicationslike relatives no one wants to see. Don’t lookat the creature’s wrinklesthe burn scars along its neck and facelike rusted train tracks,its wet eyeshungry for decades-old debts.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | E. C. Barrett |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
Emmett Nahil’s novel, From the Belly, tells the story of Isaiah Chase, a sailor on a whaling vessel in a fantasy world in which there are gods above and below, seers are punished by death, and supernatural forces seek vengeance for the horrors of an industry built on violence and greed. Isaiah has only been aboard the misnamed ship, Merciful, for six months, having fled home after his father was hanged for the crime of being able to see the future.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Caroline Hung |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
Here goes the legend of Auntie Tigress. She hides sharp claws and fangs, and wears your mother’s face too well. In the dead of night, she lulls you to sleep with precious words. Hush now, sweet child, don’t cry. Your little fingers are safe with Auntie Tigress. Sleep now, dear one. When morning comes, your brother will still be alive, smiling and ready to play. Here goes the legend of Aunt Tiger. In the dead of night, she knocks at your doorstep. Rat-tat-tat, rat-tat-tat.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Ada Palmer |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
Here in the 2020s, Earth is concluding our first century of politics shaped by comparing our lived experience with thousands of other worlds. This intellectual technology may be the least recognized defining feature of our modern life.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Jenna N Hanchey |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu
For many cultures and societies, particularly those based in oral traditions, time is not linear. Not only does that mean time’s movement is different—cyclical, spiral, emergent—but that the very concepts of past, present, and future may not always hold. But Western means of planning for the future, predicting the future, and building systems of growth and development depend on these components. When time comprises different parts, our relations to it transform.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu |Caroline Hung |Non-FictionA Hugo Award
At the Glasgow WorldCon earlier this month, the 80+ members of our editorial collective, scattered around the world, experienced a novel sensation: at the Hugo Awards ceremony, after the nominees for the best semiprozine were announced, the sealed envelope opened, and the dramatic moment’s pause accomplished, the name that was read out was … Strange Horizons. Until this year, Strange Horizons had been a losing finalist at the Hugos every year since 2013.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu |Caroline Hung
HUGE DISCLAIMER: if you believe that revealing plot elements can spoil your reading process, please read the book first and come back afterwards. This will still be here. So this happened: Keanu Reeves and China Miéville (who hadn’t published any fiction since 2016, when he gave us the novellas The Last Days of New Paris and This Census-Taker) have collaborated on a novel.
