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Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, & articles Mondays, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024. linktr.ee/strangehorizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 7h
Critical Friends Episode 16 is out now!

Have you ever felt that a novel was too long? Or perhaps too short?

Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social discusses what drives those feelings with Redfern Jon Barrett @redfernjon.bsky.social and Nileena Sunil!

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Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth
Dan Hartland is joined by Redfern Jon Barrett and Nileena Sunil to discuss those novels that feel too short or not long enough: what's behind that feeling we have that a text is lacking something, …
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 1d
pigwitch
by Rupkatha

"the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight.
She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god."

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POETRY by Rupkatha pigwitch  Quote "the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight. She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god." 6 October 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 1d
pigwitch
by Rupkatha

"the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight.
She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god."

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#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff
POETRY by Rupkatha pigwitch  Quote "the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight. She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god." 6 October 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 2d
Our departments have come together to regale you with a poem for our 25th anniversary!

Behind the Scenes at Strange Horizons
by the Strange Horizons staff

"Not ivory towers, but towers that telescope,
each climbing step an irregular height."

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POETRY by the Strange Horizons staff Behind the Scenes at Strange Horizons Quote "Not ivory towers, but towers that telescope, each climbing step an irregular height." 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 3d
The reviews are in!

Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman
by Rachel Cordasco

Contra Amatores Mundi: A Gothic Fantasy by Graham Thomas Wilcox
by Matt Holder

The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch
by Cameron Miguel

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Left cover of Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman featuring a heart shaped hole with animals and clouds and a person fishing in it. Right REVIEWS Quote "The stories in Black Hole Heart refuse to be labeled. They burst from the confines of the page, swirling and switching genre gears, leaving the reader wondering what’s coming next." reviewer: Rachel Cordasco 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Contra Amatores Mundi: A Gothic Fantasy by Graham Thomas Wilcox featuring two gothic relief panels one of a person in a suit of armor and the other in a nun's habit. Right REVIEWS Quote "The language is inseparable from both the human artist invested in strange and ornamental mode of storytelling and from the storytelling itself. It is the one element that above and beyond transports the reader to a truly alien, medieval world." reviewer: Matt Holder 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch featuring a blonde man leaning on a table looking up at the blushing tattooed half-elf. Right REVIEWS Quote "With that frequent foreshadowing, the respectful approach she takes to sensitive topics, and the way she melds healing and romance, I am beyond pleased that I read this novel; if I outlined every stellar moment we’d be here for hours." reviewer: Cameron Miguel 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 5d
Love’s Not Time’s Fool 
by Jenise Aminoff

"I move, not of my own design,
but helplessly over the curves and recesses
of our making time, our lovetime."

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POETRY by Jenise Aminoff Love’s Not Time’s Fool  Quote "I move, not of my own design, but helplessly over the curves and recesses of our making time, our lovetime." 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 7d
A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives
by Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com

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#fiction #shortstories #speculativefiction #specfic #sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror
FICTION Quote "Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a lot of wonderful fiction off the list." A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives  by Maria Haskins 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 8d
Jorinde Remembers
by Anne E. G. Nydam

"My self was lost in the song, feathered in shadows,
And all I knew became the nightingale."

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POETRY by Anne E. G. Nydam Jorinde Remembers Quote My self was lost in the song, feathered in shadows, And all I knew became the nightingale. 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 8d
Jorinde Remembers
by Anne E. G. Nydam

"My self was lost in the song, feathered in shadows,
And all I knew became the nightingale."

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#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff #fantasy
POETRY by Anne E. G. Nydam Jorinde Remembers Quote My self was lost in the song, feathered in shadows, And all I knew became the nightingale. 29 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 9d
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
reviewed by Phoenix Scholz

Menacing Environments by Benjamin Bigelow
reviewed by Octavia Cade

The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed
reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi

Link to the latest issue in our bio!

#horror #sciencefiction #scifi #sff #bookreviews
Left cover of Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones featuring a cut out of a feather dripping blood with the image of a neon purple mobile home inside. Right REVIEWS Quote "This ghost story may well be the most visceral way to teach others what it means continuously to try to get your community’s potential back, and in the process always to find out that it isn’t you who is calling the shots." reviewer: Phoenix Scholz 22 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Menacing Environments by Benjamin Bigelow featuring a view looking up into bare black trees against a red sky. Right REVIEWS Quote "Where these films sit in national and regional histories of cinema, and how they relate to any environmental and horrific presentations in the films around them, is something that could have been gone into in more depth, I think. As it is, they are illustrations of a proffered theme, illuminating but not entirely comprehensive." reviewer: Octavia Cade 22 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed featuring a painting of a lush green landscape. Right REVIEWS Quote "Having given up on humanity, Weed offers then in The Afterlife Project a different hope—not, in the end, the furtherance of H. sapiens, but the possibility—even probability—of life on Earth proceeding by other means." reviewer: Jacqueline Nyathi 22 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12d
Pterosaur 
by M. Frost @mfrostwords.bsky.social

"Winged Quetzalcōātl, sister to wind—I found a version etched in stone, stunning fossil
of human imagination."

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POETRY by M. Frost Pterosaur Quote Winged Quetzalcōātl, sister to wind—I found a version etched in stone, stunning fossil of human imagination. 22 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12d
Pterosaur 
by M. Frost @mfrostwords.bsky.social

"Winged Quetzalcōātl, sister to wind—I found a version etched in stone, stunning fossil
of human imagination."

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#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff
POETRY by M. Frost Pterosaur Quote Winged Quetzalcōātl, sister to wind—I found a version etched in stone, stunning fossil of human imagination. 22 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 13d
Rebooting The Future: On Perry Rhodan, Perry Rhodan NEO, and Two Plots Alike in Dignity 
by Kyle Tam

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#sciencefiction #scifi #sff #essays
NON-FICTION Quote Perry Rhodan’s universes ask us to believe in one astronaut and his allies as they strive to make the galaxy a better, kinder place, while also grappling with the difficulties of doing so. Rebooting The Future: On Perry Rhodan, Perry Rhodan NEO, and Two Plots Alike in Dignity  by Kyle Tam 22 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 14d
Promised Detonations
by Christopher Morgan

"This / young man has bombs for / hands—"

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POETRY by Christopher Morgan Promised Detonations Quote This / young man has bombs for / hands— 22 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 17d
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
reviewed by William Shaw

Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V edited by Olivia Kidula & Somto Ihezue
reviewed by Amritesh Mukherjee

Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake
reviewed by Subham Rai

Link to latest issue in bio!

#bookreviews
Left cover of Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha featuring the profile of a being with a white face, protuding back of the head, and a neck and shoulders made of connected wires, roots, gothic buildings and bones. Right REVIEWS Quote "...I am willing to bet that I will not forget “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” in a hurry, nor the extraordinary collection in which it appears. If you choose to read it, I doubt you will either. Ha has produced an engaging, kinetic, and profoundly well-crafted set of stories." reviewer: William Shaw 15 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V edited by Olivia Kidula & Somto Ihezue featuring a black person wearing an orange suit and gold chainlink necklaces with a face wearing a helmet in the clouds above. Right REVIEWS Quote "Collecting such a chaotic, genre-defying constellation of stories, the anthology models a form of narrative rebellion. To witness these stories is to remember that other futures are possible, that inherited ideas about order, hierarchy, and belonging can be broken." reviewer: Amritesh Mukherjee 15 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake featuring a picture of three people offset in equally distant sections of rippling. Right REVIEWS Quote "Olivie Blake’s Gifted & Talented is not just a story about such people; it is a scalpel-sharp dissection of the systems that commodify genius, the families that weaponize it, and the bodies and minds that crumble under its demands." reviewer: Subham Rai 15 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 20d
I Love You like an Apple Tree in Full Bloom 
by Niina Tsuyuki Dubik

"Weaving through the branches,
childishly ignorant of the power lines above"

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POETRY by Niina Tsuyuki Dubik I Love You like an Apple Tree in Full Bloom  Quote Weaving through the branches, childishly ignorant of the power lines above 15 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 21d
the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force 
by Gwynne Garfinkle

"our purple clouds of delight
rise above your tear gas"

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POETRY by Gwynne Garfinkle the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force  Quote our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas 15 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 22d
Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
Happy 25th Birthday to Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 23d
New Podcast Alert!

'Of Flowing Stone, of Liquid Gold, of Justice, Ash, and Battle'
by Malda Marlys @aardwyrm.bsky.social
read by Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 25d
There are Reasons for This by Nini Berndt
reviewed by E. C. Barrett

Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza
reviewed by Nileena Sunil

Memories From The Jungle by Tristan Garcia, trans. by Christopher Beach
reviewed by Will Emmons

Link to latest issue in bio!

#sciencefiction #scifi #sff #bookreviews
Left cover of There are Reasons for This by Nini Berndt featuring a cloudy red background with the title in yellow letters all overlayed with red polka dots. Right REVIEWS Quote "There Are Reasons for This is unmistakably a novel of our times. While that might sound depressing, thanks to Berndt’s vivid, unexpected writing and fully imagined misfits, her portrayal of what it’s like to have to keep on getting on with life while the world is ending is unexpectedly cathartic." reviewer: E. C. Barrett 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza featuring a white background with fold lines and a large purple dot in the upper left. Right REVIEWS Quote "I really appreciated how this book allowed us to watch Elif grow into her own person amid extraordinary circumstances, and I really enjoyed how the character dynamics were written. The novella as a whole was really engaging..." reviewer: Nileena Sunil 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Memories From The Jungle by Tristan Garcia, translated by Christopher Beach featuring a sketch of a chimpanzee looking up. Right REVIEWS Quote "In Memories From The Jungle, there can be no synthesis between civilization and nature. They must be kept totally apart. Humans must live on space stations and animals on the Earth. Otherwise they must destroy each other." reviewer: Will Emmons 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 25d
There are Reasons for This by Nini Berndt
reviewed by E. C. Barrett

Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza
reviewed by Nileena Sunil

Memories From The Jungle by Tristan Garcia, trans. by Christopher Beach
reviewed by Will Emmons

Link to latest issue in bio!

#sciencefiction #scifi #sff #bookreviews
Left cover of There are Reasons for This by Nini Berndt featuring a cloudy red background with the title in yellow letters all overlayed with red polka dots. Right REVIEWS Quote "There Are Reasons for This is unmistakably a novel of our times. While that might sound depressing, thanks to Berndt’s vivid, unexpected writing and fully imagined misfits, her portrayal of what it’s like to have to keep on getting on with life while the world is ending is unexpectedly cathartic." reviewer: E. C. Barrett 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza featuring a white background with fold lines and a large purple dot in the upper left. Right REVIEWS Quote "I really appreciated how this book allowed us to watch Elif grow into her own person amid extraordinary circumstances, and I really enjoyed how the character dynamics were written. The novella as a whole was really engaging..." reviewer: Nileena Sunil 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons Left cover of Memories From The Jungle by Tristan Garcia, translated by Christopher Beach featuring a sketch of a chimpanzee looking up. Right REVIEWS Quote "In Memories From The Jungle, there can be no synthesis between civilization and nature. They must be kept totally apart. Humans must live on space stations and animals on the Earth. Otherwise they must destroy each other." reviewer: Will Emmons 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 26d
Watching Migrations 
by Keyan Bowes @keyanbowes.bsky.social

"The sky above you is filled with pelicans,
and far above them, dragons only you can see."

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POETRY by Keyan Bowes Watching Migrations  Quote The sky above you is filled with pelicans, and far above them, dragons only you can see. 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 27d
Lake Monster Fishing in the South
by Charles Richard Livesay @wooleyonetwo.bsky.social

"Maybe I did see a giant snake
behind that peeled-paint pontoon boat."

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POETRY by Charles Richard Livesay Lake Monster Fishing in the South Quote Maybe I did see a giant snake behind that peeled-paint pontoon boat. 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 28d
The Black Death 
by Andrew Kozma @andrewkozma.net

"I’m talking about vaccines. We can kill the killer."

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POETRY by Andrew Kozma The Black Death Quote I’m talking about vaccines. We can kill the killer. 8 September 2025 Strange Horizons
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · Sep 7
In case you missed it:

Critical Friends Episode 15: On Time-Pass
with Dan Hartland, Sneha Pathak, and Tansy Gardam
on the texts which many don’t find worthy of criticism at all: the popular, populist, or popcorn!

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Critical Friends Episode 15: On Time-Pass
Dan Hartland is joined by Sneha Pathak and Tansy Gardam to discuss the kinds of text which many don’t find worthy of criticism at all.
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