Rawad Alhashmi

Nov 25, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Shannon Fay |Rawad Alhashmi |Kuzhali Manickavel |Akis Linardos

Buried Deep and Other Stories is a fantastic smorgasbord for fans of Naomi Novik’s writing. It features several stories set in the same universes as her novels, as well as others that draw upon a wide swath of history and literature. You liked Novik’s Scholomance Trilogy (2020-2022)? There’s a story in here set after the end of the series. A fan of her novel Spinning Silver (2018)? You can read the prototype short story version of it here.

Sep 15, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Rawad Alhashmi |Rebecca Schneider |Lydia O’Donnell |Nnadi Samuel

Here Is a Body revolves around an authoritarian regime, and sit-in protests against it in “the Space.” Homeless boys—Rabie al-Mahdi, Youssef, Emad, and Saad, among many others—are abducted from a garbage dump by the titans, who work for the general and the System. The children are brought to a rehabilitation center, but in reality, it is an army training camp. They are deprived of their names, and instead, they are all called Bodies, whereas the titans are called Heads.