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Nov 5, 2024 | 
uncannymagazine.com | Sonya Taaffe |Clockpunk Studios
Cruzaste Maresna aventura da pesca da baleia,nessas viagens para a Américade onde às vezes os navios não voltam mais. —Jorge Barbosa, “Irmão”Long after his whaling days were over, Abraão Vieira dreamed of ice.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Sonya Taaffe
A Long Time Afterward by Sonya Taaffe Published in Sept. 2024 (Issue 144) | 221 words © 2024 by Sonya Taaffe. CW: death. This one is a ghost poem whose subject was only ever alive on film: Johnny Ryan, played stone cold and queer to the bone by Wendell Corey in the deliriously Technicolor noir Desert Fury (1947).
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Christian P. Haines |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd
Usually, the Anthropocene gives off dystopian vibes, conjuring up images of extreme weather, spreading forest fires, and disappearing coastlines. But Robin Sloan dismisses this vision of catastrophe in the very first paragraph of Moonbound: “Success came first! Wicked problems finally put to rest.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Vivian Wagner |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd
Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror, Vol. 2 is a unique collection of speculative horror stories, each of which explores a varied universe of fear, anxiety, and terror. The horror of many of these stories comes from their close connection with concerns in the real modern world—even when they’re seemingly set in very different realities. Horrors like abusive families, school shootings, environmental degradation, and other social ills give these stories their framework and impact.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | M. L. Clark |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd
The science fiction of near-future resistance goes by many names, with terms like “cli-fi,” “solar punk,” and “hope punk” in ascendance in recent years. But one of the most important considerations in this range of speculative writing isn’t categorical: it’s geopolitical. How well does this vein of fiction expand our sense of the world around us?
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Gautam Bhatia |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd
Strange Horizons is looking to add an additional articles editor to work with our editorial collective. The Articles Department publishes non-fiction on the fourth Monday of the month, nine times a year. Pieces include essays, interviews, round-tables, and conversations. Articles editors also edit and publish columns by our regular columnists.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd |Aigner Loren Wilson
Love notes written on parchmentby a gay sorcerer who swore eternal fidelity. The quill pen script is splattered and smearedby the blacksmith’s tears. Matching wedding bands cast by the blacksmith. Their union blessed by a full moon. Silver that used to glimmer is as tarnishedas love smothered by malevolent magic. His dead husband’s stained wool hat. Three years after the sorcerer’s murder,the brim still stinks like the quicksandthat swallowed his body.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Sonya Taaffe |Alicia Hilton |Jamie Boyd |Aigner Loren Wilson
Out of its waxed and rotted stringsit unfolded, shedding earthas a sleeping horse’s flank sheds flies,so soft in our hands it felt like slippingto catch it, a sudden more silvereven than the birches’ sentinel. No one named who must have buried it,some rich woman we imaginedher furs and pearls and papers outlastingeven as time ate their tarnish green,their ink to rust, her name to saprising like a candle’s year-lit flame.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Jamie Boyd |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Aigner Loren Wilson
When she finds him, her boy is no longer a boy. He’s a blister about to pop. His heart hammers, and his skin burns beneath her fingertips, his body already grotesque. She trembles as she calls the doctor and describes her son’s symptoms. The man arrives at her home within the hour, examines her child as he lies in bed, and removes a syringe full of fluid from what used to be his abdomen. “It’s all right,” the doctor soothes. “The change is proceeding normally.”“But he’s too young.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
strangehorizons.com | Aigner Loren Wilson |Alicia Hilton |Sonya Taaffe |Jamie Boyd
Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions on October 1st, 2024, at 9 a.m. UTC! To keep our response times manageable and submission windows more frequent, there will be a 1,000 story cap on submissions. Once we receive 1,000 stories, we’ll close our portal while we work through the submissions. If our portal is open, we are still accepting stories, but once it is closed, please do not send us your work.
