Rebecca Schneider

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.

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

Assassin of Reality continues the strange and wonderful story of Alexandra “Sasha” Samokhina begun in Vita Nostra (2018). In my review of the latter, I called it a “remarkable example of dark philosophical fantasy and psychological horror” (Foundation, 2019), and Assassin of Reality continues in this vein, extending Sasha’s story in unexpected ways and encouraging us as readers to question how we read both texts and our own place in the universe.

Sep 14, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Electra Pritchett |Rebecca Schneider |Lydia O’Donnell |Nnadi Samuel

“We shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed.”Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy burst onto the scene in 2014 with Ancillary Justice, and in the decade since it’s almost become possible to forget how groundbreaking that book was, as the genre has rapidly changed in ways that made its innovations much more mainstream.

Sep 12, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Nnadi Samuel |Rebecca Schneider |Lydia O’Donnell |Zachary Gillan

Glory be to the improper plot: this acre of hand tilled hibiscus& the dying raven that slants midway, in collapsed grace. I am thankful for everything that lays chaotic. jagged landmass. raked mess of depression, inversely proportional to climate change—the way I discolor in summer. measuring tape laid to waste because,this is a farm dispute where everyone wants to outcount the other.

Sep 12, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Zachary Gillan |Rebecca Schneider |Lydia O’Donnell |Nnadi Samuel

Miles Davis, the Prince of Darkness, made his name in the frenetic world of bebop by playing his trumpet as little as possible, emphasizing not a constant stream of notes, but the gaps between them. “It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you don’t play,” he was fond of saying.