Vivian Wagner

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.

Feb 23, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Vivian Wagner |Kathy Chao |Cecilia Caballero |Jay Gomez

How to Navigate Our Universe is a collection of speculative poetry by Mary Soon Lee which plays with the notion that planets might have personalities, moons might have jealousies, and the universe itself might be understood by examining its neighborhoods. All of its poems seek to bring the vast unknowability of the universe down to size by anthropomorphizing, describing, and categorizing it in ways that humans might be able to comprehend.

Mar 10, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Vivian Wagner |Laura Grothaus |L. Acadia |Abhilash Jayachandra

The title of Charm, Strangeness, Mass and Spin, a new story collection by Australian science fiction and fantasy writer Stephen Dedman, draws from quantum physics, and the stories in this collection all explore a kind of physics of human relationships in the midst of technological and societal turmoil. People, like quarks, show up in strange places and in odd pairings, and the stories explore how they respond in unpredictable and difficult situations.