Strange Horizons Magazine

Strange Horizons is a weekly magazine dedicated to speculative fiction. We offer a variety of content including fiction, poetry, reviews, essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, and artwork. Speculative fiction, as we define it, encompasses genres such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, and other imaginative narratives. The pieces featured in Strange Horizons have received nominations or awards from prestigious organizations like the Hugo, Nebula, Rhysling, Theodore Sturgeon, James Tiptree Jr., and World Fantasy Awards. This genre has a rich and innovative history, providing stories that provoke thought, critique societal norms, and envision alternate realities, whether for the better or worse. We strive to continue this important tradition and to modernize it: in the 21st century, speculative fiction should be a global and inclusive form of literature. Our goal is to highlight works that both challenge and entertain us, featuring new and established voices from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives.

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William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark by Timothy S. Murphy

2 weeks ago | strangehorizons.com | Daniel A. Rabuzzi |Lalini Shanela Ranaraja |Brittany Decker |Ian Muneshwar

“And never did all that great and terrible Land grow stale upon the soul of any, from birth until death; and by this you shall know the constant wonder of it, and that sense of enemies in the night about us, which ever filled the heart and spirit of all Beholders ...”—William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land, chapter 4 (1912).
SH@25 Episode 13: A Conversation with Nghi Vo

1 month ago | strangehorizons.com | Kat Kourbeti |Nghi Vo |Faye Susan |Tara Labovich

https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/staging/2025-4-28/401161923-44100-2-ed8a1e9cc1cb2.m4aIn this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, editor Kat Kourbeti talks to Nghi Vo about how Strange Horizons kickstarted her publishing journey, her weird and interesting life before writing took off, and the fearlessness it takes to make a writing career happen. Links and things:Want to leave us a happy birthday message? Click ⁠here to record an audio message⁠, and ⁠here for video⁠.
Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino

1 month ago | strangehorizons.com | Anushree Nande |Em Setzer |M.C. Childs |Elle Engel

“Language is pitiable when weighed against experience,” wrote Adina Giorno, the protagonist of Marie-Helene Bertino’s quietly stunning Beautyland (2024); perhaps true, but equally true is the transportive weight of Bertino’s writing, which allows us brief, but vital, glimpses of what it’s like to be in the shoes of the people she brings into existence in her stories.
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

1 month ago | strangehorizons.com | Vivian Wagner |M.C. Childs |Jenny Hamilton |Em Setzer

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell is an innovative science fiction novel that explores race, identity, and trauma in new and unexpected ways. It follows its characters after all the white people in the United States abruptly commit suicide, in what the novel refers to simply as “the event.” Those left behind after the event attempt to rebuild the world and their communities, and the novel describes these efforts on both personal and cultural levels.
SH@25 Episode 10: An interview with Jordan Kurella, and a reading of his poem, 'this tree is a eulogy'

Mar 19, 2025 | strangehorizons.com | Jordan Kurella |Aigner Loren Wilson |Anastasios Mihalopoulos |Emma Hayes

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/api/audio/abrept1/download?url=https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-2-19%2F396895585-44100-2-080d142a5a4d2.m4aIn this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, we present a soundscaped reading of Jordan Kurella's poem, 'this tree is a eulogy', and afterward Kat Kourbeti chats to Jordan about his writing process, the wonders of New Weird fiction, and the magic of writer friendships. Links and things:Want to leave us a happy birthday message?
Nominating for the 2025 Hugo Awards? Here is your Strange Horizons primer.

Mar 3, 2025 | strangehorizons.com | Kat Kourbeti |Premee Mohamed |Romie Stott |Laura Cranehill

Here at Strange Horizons, we publish loads of wonderful different kinds of content every year, from short fiction to poetry and from reviews to criticism essays (not to mention podcasts, selfishly), and 2024 was no exception.
High Vaultage by Chris and Jen Sugden

Feb 21, 2025 | strangehorizons.com | Eric Hendel |Eric Hendel |Kunjana Parashar |Karan Kapoor |Kat Kourbeti

I wish I could say I had enjoyed Chris and Jen Sugden’s novel High Vaultage more than I did, because there are many individual elements of this story which work extremely well. Functioning as a stand-alone novelization of the audio fiction podcast Victoriocity (a work which was also co-written by the authors), High Vaultage is set in a steampunk version of the 1800s.
The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey

Feb 11, 2025 | strangehorizons.com | Stephen Case |Gautam Bhatia |Caroline Hung |Jennessa Hester

The Mercy of Gods is the first volume of The Captive’s War, a new series from the author of the wildly successful The Expanse (2011-2022). That series (both books and television adaptation) managed to raise the stakes with every installment while making each feel satisfyingly self-contained.
Murder in the Clavist Autonomous Zone

Jan 31, 2025 | strangehorizons.com | Rich Larson |Aishwarya Subramanian |Dan Hartland |Paul Kincaid

[content_warning type="drugs, sex, blood, death, murder, autonomy"]This story is one of five winners of the Stop Copaganda short story contest, run in collaboration with Fight for the Future, Rightscon, and COMPOST Magazine.
Crisis Actors By Maddison Stoff, By Corey Jae White

Jan 31, 2025 | strangehorizons.com | Maddison Stoff |Corey White |Aishwarya Subramanian |Dan Hartland

[content_warning type="blood, death, murder, autonomy, racism, vomit, homophobia, transphobia, drugs"]This story is one of five winners of the Stop Copaganda short story contest, run in collaboration with Fight for the Future, Rightscon, and COMPOST Magazine. Michael sips his coffee, watching the screen automatically cycle through vidfeeds coming in from across the country, lingering just long enough to hit the relevant button.