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Zebra Meridian & Other Stories by Geoffrey W. Cole
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The stories and poems in Geoffrey W. Cole’s Zebra Meridian imagine the factors that might determine success in extending the lifespan of objects, relationships, people, ecosystems, planets, univers…
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A few years ago a supernatural event was observed which rocked the scientific communities of America and Europe.
on Nov 8
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Recycled Air: Wayfarers and the Tyranny of the Everyday
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When I first told Maureen Kincaid Speller that A Closed and Common Orbit was among my favourite current works of science fiction she did not agree with me. Five years later, I'm trying to work out …
on Nov 5
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The 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Shortlist, Part Two
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Whichever author is announced as the winner of an extraordinary prize on October 21, there is something special about any opportunity to gather books together in the hope that they might be better …
on Oct 18
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The 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Shortlist, Part One
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Is the prize settling into a clear sense of itself in its third year? Yes and no.
on Oct 17
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Stories From The Radio: The Slide - Danger Point
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This episode was frustrating and hilarious, just like so many things in life. What do the last two episodes have in store for us? Maybe something coherent happens in the story? Maybe an appearance …
on Oct 7
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Marginalia: You Spin Me Right Round
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I'm going to talk a little bit about the work of Kuzhali Manickavel.
on Oct 6
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The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister
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Ritual is ultimately a very human way of approaching the world and creating order and comfort. But a bog wife is not human.
on Oct 3
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Wise's expansive view of what poetry can be, and how it can be judged, deserves a wide audience.
on Sep 28
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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older
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This is a story of change, of embracing new perspectives, as well as of aftermaths.
on Sep 22
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there’s a word—but it’s gone, stolen, seized in the raid; the others have it now
on Sep 17
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Interview With the Vampire Season 2
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Much of the pleasure of watching Interview With the Vampire over time lies in untangling the various lies, half-truths, and misrepresentations that the interview keeps throwing up.
on Aug 7
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I gnaw on a wishbone, / ignore the rustle and hiss, the flicker / of ink tongues.
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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Here are two titles for booksellers to shelve under Fantasy. Both follow the adventures of an essentially good though morally (slightly) complicated hero around a medievalised imaginary world. Both…
on Jul 20
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Boucher, Backbone and Blake – the legacy of Blakes 7
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Almost no other show, genre or otherwise, is as well-written as Blakes 7...I want people who enjoy, talk about and make art to know where the good shit is and where the bar should be set.
on Jul 14
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Stardust: Cinematic Archives from the End of the World by Hannah Goodwin
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The visual medium of cinema created new sensory opportunities for the depiction of existential unease.
on Jul 10
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I turn to where they are not, / and I nod to them, and they to me.
on Jul 9
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Phonetics of Draconic Languages
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The field of draconic phonetics and phonology has made great strides in the last two decades, and the basic groundwork has at long last been laid, though at great cost.
on Jun 28
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Ancillary Pronouns: (Trans)gendering the 'Imperial Radch' Trilogy
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There has been much discussion about Ann Leckie’s treatment of gender in the Imperial Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy The Radchaai, after whom the trilogy is …
on Jun 26
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Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics by Raphael Kabo
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The politics of Kabo’s book reflect a trend in contemporary leftism that I might call the communism of the margins.
on Jun 25
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daily you suppress it and ride the shame / like a surfer rides a monster wave,
on Jun 25
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Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That wo…
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A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief
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This variation on the elixir of life pairs the flavour of roasted roc with the medicinal potency of the philosopher’s stone. But buyer beware: this dish isn’t for everyone.
on May 18
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Although the creatures the crew encounter offer a poignant reminder of the fragility of life, what matters more is what the crew, the aliens here, have brought to this hauntingly beautiful world in…
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The Strange Horizons Film Club: Jupiter Ascending
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They aren't . . . teleological bees.
on Apr 27
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The Jaxicans' Authentic Reconstruction of Taco Tuesday #37
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Graduate Assistant Four Fronds Turning had made the best guacamole that Mike had ever tasted in his original or post-revival life, and it was all wrong.
on Apr 9
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You have to be sweet / like sun-warmed honey, / that’s what daddy says.
on Apr 5
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the train ascends a bridge over endless rows of houses made of beams from decommissioned factories, stripped hulls, salvaged engines—
on Apr 3
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Menewood is part of a conversation within Griffith's work about whether aptitude, training, and community can allow some individuals to succeed in actions that look supernaturally impressive.
on Apr 2
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Stories From The Radio: The Heartbeat
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Looking back, I see that my initial hope for this episode was that the mud would have a heartbeat and a heart that has teeth and crippling anxiety. Some of that hope has become a reality, but at wh…
on Mar 30
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Dis/entangling Human-Animal Intimacies in Nghi Vo’s When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
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Significantly, neither the humans nor the tigers are shown to possess an original or authoritative version of the narrative, and it is only in such collaborative and dialogic encounters that human-…
on Mar 29
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The Privilege of a Happy Ending by Kij Johnson
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Johnson's work offers readers the opportunity not just to try to fill certain emotive or experiential gaps in language, but also to reflect on what it means to try to fill the gaps at all.
on Mar 27
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the birds, / who carry with them / the many names of the dead
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Themes surrounding the binary view identities are exhibited by all of Twice Lived’s characters.
on Mar 20
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A Few Questions About the Culture: An Interview with Iain Banks
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These interviews were conducted by email between April and June in 2010 as part of my PhD on the Culture, drawing on the extraordinary way Banks's writing investigates and interrogates language, th…
on Feb 16
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The Grammarian's Five Daughters
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The mother thought for a while, then produced a bag. "In here are nouns, which I consider the solid core and treasure of language. I give them to you because you're the oldest. Take them and do wha…
on Feb 9
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Call for Editors: Social Media Editor, Accessibility Editor and Copy Editor
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Strange Horizons is looking to add an additional social media editor and accessibility editor to our editorial collective. These roles will entail working in tandem with our existing social media a…
on Feb 2
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A Traveller in Time by Maureen Kincaid Speller: A Roundtable
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Nicole Beck, ML Clark, Shinjini Dey, and Catherine Rockwood review a volume of career-spanning criticism—and then review themselves.
on Jan 30
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The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
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The Saint of Bright Doors begins as the story of a boy with exceptional abilities, and exceptional parents, striving to become an extremely ordinary young man. Fetter’s magic appears unremarkable w…
on Jan 30
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The Portals of the Plague Years
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The prohibitions of my situation were clear enough: going out, meeting people, traversing the Atlantic, or coming within two metres of supermarket cashiers were all out. But under what conditions c…
on Jan 30
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Remember to tread as gently as possible in the Museum of Printing History, for these machines are delicate. They have withstood wars and insurrections, high-level humidity, and long droughts. They …
on Jan 23
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Sergeant Bothari and Disability Representation in the Early Vorkosiverse
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As a disabled immigrant with limited resources who is also a caregiver, I attend cons very sporadically. But at every single convention until just a few years ago, as well as online, I have had mul…
on Jan 22
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Once there lived a princess who was a girl, a corpse, a slippery amphibial nymph. She was tucked within several lives, each life pleating and creasing into silken layers of woe. But for our purpose…
on Jan 20
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I could do a grand-jete there / even though I flunked out of ballet.
on Jan 20
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Matt Holder For me, 2023 was the year of consuming pounds and pounds of Black Library fiction. And you know what? It was great. Horror, science fiction, fantasy, crime/noir, pseudo-philosophical tr…
on Jan 6
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The Ghost Did What?! Translation Exposing Providentialist Thinking
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Stories of extensive evil, in which the threat is not a single villain, nor even a man-made pollution monster, but systemic structures of harm in which we are all complicit, offer tools to think th…
on Jan 4