This story that does cool stuff exploring gender, migration, and alterity through entering the entirely non-human-centered POV of a creature that matures across deep time and space. We're also pleased to be the ones to host aegor's first spec fic publication! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

When you can't afford a computer stand because big books ate all your money

Stumbled on the Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast and can't recommend it enough! The hosts are OG Wolfe fans and have special insight into his work from also being Catholic, former military, medieval history scholar, etc. so they pick up on fascinating allusions! open.spotify.com/episode/1DGx...

ICYMI! my story about reproductive freedom and dragons is out now🐉

I love the spec fic community because everyone is just so sincerely supportive of each other--watching the Hugo finalist announcements roll out and seeing all the congratulatory comments is so sweet 💜

Couldn't be prouder--I'm new to staff, but a longtime fanboy of SH 💜

Out now! @audreyzhou.bsky.social uses the beautiful and fantastic to illuminate the devastatingly real interiority of one woman's struggle for autonomy, and the impossible dilemma she faces in a society bent on controlling women's bodies (sound familiar?) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

It's my favorite time of year in Texas :)

Excellent hopeful speculative fiction poem! "Sometimes, hope is more painful than enduring: but now that we’ve survived, we live our lives at a ship’s helm of our own beginning."

Can't pass through national poetry month without sharing something from my favorite poet, Kay Ryan. A nice reminder for those of us who struggle with stubborn self-reliance to know our limits and accept the gift of help: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

It feels wrong to call this poem delightful, but I got a kick out of it. Love the balance of humor and sincerity tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...

I love the gentle, mesmerizing voice of the narrator in this story, "The Houses of the Stars In Heaven" by @ferdwrites.bsky.social, who guides a young navigator through a speculative (subtly sci fi) reimagining of the afterlife in Polynesian myth. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Finally got around to officially announcing my new role as fiction editor at Strange Horizons :) Just a little reflection on what Ursula K. Le Guin called the "duty" of escapism, and how happy I am to get to be a part of such a meaningful jailbreaking effort. austindewar.com/2026/04/04/i...

The #Artemis mission is giving me a renewed childlike sense of wonder about space exploration irl 🧡

🍄 Strange Horizons fungus special issue!!! 🍄 As a big fan of fungal themes in speculative fiction I'm nerding out. I especially loved chewing over the imagery in this poem by Sonya Taafe: