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

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" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force  by Gwynne Garfinkle "our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

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!

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 Listen at the link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #fiction #speculativefiction #specfic #fantasy #sff #podcast

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

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

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." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy

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." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy

The Black Death  by Andrew Kozma @andrewkozma.net "I’m talking about vaccines. We can kill the killer." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #sff #sciencefiction #scifi

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! Link to the podcast ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The reviews are in! Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo reviewed by Jenny Hamilton If the Stars Are Lit by Sara K. Ellis reviewed by Redfern Jon Barrett Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer reviewed by Dawn Macdonald Link to latest issue in bio! #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #horror #bookreviews

The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet by Carolyn Zhao "...and then someone was hauling me up and telling me I got my heart broken, and I wasn’t on Earth anymore, and wouldn’t be for ages again." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Graft Versus Host  by S. Chaudhuri-Perelló "We are lost Between the lines of a colonist tongue" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel by Paul Kincaid The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Vishwambhari S. Parmar by Sneha Pathak Ice Cream Man by W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran by Nataliia Sova Link to latest issue in bio!

I’ll Laugh As You Bury Me: New Zealand, America and Cultural Hegemony by Alexandra Stronach Read the essay at the link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... #sciencefiction #scifi #nonfiction #essays

I’ll Laugh As You Bury Me: New Zealand, America and Cultural Hegemony by Alexandra Stronach Read the essay at the link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... #sciencefiction #scifi #nonfiction #essays

Hex Supply Customer Support Log by Elis Montgomery @elismontgomery.bsky.social "oh shit you’re not a witch at all you’re just a freaking bot a chat AI from hex? the gall yeah that explains a lot" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #witches

Hex Supply Customer Support Log by Elis Montgomery @elismontgomery.bsky.social "oh shit you’re not a witch at all you’re just a freaking bot a chat AI from hex? the gall yeah that explains a lot" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #witches

The Capture by Raja'a Khalid "When was the first time you realized you were this beautiful? ... I look into the eye of the camera and think of diamonds on the surface of a dark green sea, songs of the deep in my ear, the lick of salt on my lips." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

The Capture by Raja'a Khalid "When was the first time you realized you were this beautiful? ... I look into the eye of the camera and think of diamonds on the surface of a dark green sea, songs of the deep in my ear, the lick of salt on my lips." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I Was A Fish  by Svetlana Litvinchuk "Seasons changed from bud to flower to brittle leaf" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

I Was A Fish  by Svetlana Litvinchuk "Seasons changed from bud to flower to brittle leaf" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Stories From The Radio - The Curse Of Nagana by Kuzhali Manickavel "From what I have read on the internet, it’s not very good. But that has never stopped us before fam!" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... #sciencefiction #fantasy #scifi #audiofiction

The reviews are in! Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder by Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill reviewed by Sally Parlier Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby reviewed by David Lewis Ley Lines by Tim Welsh reviewed by Cameron Miguel Link to latest issue in bio!

[Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy]  by Em Setzer "When we opened you up, we found a syrinx in your throat like a bird. You expelled song at us and resisted penetration, none of us knew what to do." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

Yesterday by A.M. Barrie 'Everyone remembers where they were when the trees first groaned “yesterday.”' Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... #fiction #shortstories #speculativefiction #specfic #sff

Yesterday by A.M. Barrie 'Everyone remembers where they were when the trees first groaned “yesterday.”' Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... #fiction #shortstories #speculativefiction #specfic #sff

The World Awaits My Little Chicken by Trevor Tingle "What will you pay to watch the sky fall?" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The World Awaits My Little Chicken by Trevor Tingle "What will you pay to watch the sky fall?" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

This week's reviews: Animals by Geoff Ryman by Roseanna Pendlebury Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab by Debbie Gascoyne The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas by Ian J. Simpson Link to the latest issue in our bio! #speculativefiction #specfic #sff #bookreviews #vampires

New Regime  by Jeremiah Moriarty "No name, just repetition without expectation, like a garden that blooms in the umbra of a bleached ruin." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

Poorly Salted, Well-Loved by Athar Fikry is this week's fiction! Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... #fiction #shortstories #speculativefiction #specfic #sff

Poorly Salted, Well-Loved by Athar Fikry is this week's fiction! Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... #fiction #shortstories #speculativefiction #specfic #sff

This is it: the last 24 hours in our Kickstarter campaign! If you haven't backed the project yet, we need your support to keep publishing optimistic science fiction and fantasy! Six brand-new short stories in Volume 2, plus a reprint of Volume 1. ☀️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

With Serviettes Upon Our Heads  by Pixie Bruner "They stamp us out like cookies We are machined this way, Trauma bonded stronger than covalence Until we have identical faces." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

In case you missed it, the latest episode of the Critical Friends podcast is out now! This episode centers around writing in hard times. Give it a listen at the link ⬇️ #podcast #bookreviews #fiction #speculativefiction #specfic #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #sff

☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special. What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad! ⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com

Reviews are in! Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski reviewed by William Shaw Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman reviewed by Amy Nagopaleen Anji Kills A King by Evan Leikam reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi Read at the link to the latest issue in our bio #speculativefiction #fantasy #sff #bookreviews

Reviews are in! Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski reviewed by William Shaw Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman reviewed by Amy Nagopaleen Anji Kills A King by Evan Leikam reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi Read at the link to the latest issue in our bio #speculativefiction #fantasy #sff #bookreviews

Playing Among the Leaves  by M. Weigel @peronelle.bsky.social "Did none of you ever question why Robin Hood could melt into the trees?" Read the full poem at the link to the latest issue in our bio! Link⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

🚀🤯 Thrilled to announce my nuclear test site tourism story “A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada” in @strangehorizons.bsky.social has been nominated for a WSFA Small Press award! The WSFA is one of the oldest existing science fiction clubs in the U.S. (est. 1947). So honored! 🩵 #scifi

A Distressing Absence of Eyes  by Chris Clemens "Not your recessed optical orbs, unable to see beyond printed warnings. We have tasted these orbs, found them wanting. Range-limited." Full poem ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

A Distressing Absence of Eyes  by Chris Clemens "Not your recessed optical orbs, unable to see beyond printed warnings. We have tasted these orbs, found them wanting. Range-limited." Full poem ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

Episode 15 of the Strange Horizons at 25 Podcast is out now! Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno chats with Debbie Urbanski about her 2018 Strange Horizons publication and the 13 years it took to get accepted, writing in the gray areas between genres, and what it means to be artistically honest. Link ⬇️

We're almost £6,000 funded with 10 days to go! Thank you to everyone who backed today — this was our best day of the campaign yet! ☀️ But we still have a way to go until we're fully funded. Please repost and help us get there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam... #solarpunk #scifi #fantasy

Cuca by Alfonsina Storni translated by Alina Lazar and Anna Evelyn White Read the full story in translation and the original at the link to the latest issue in our bio! #fiction #shortstories #speculativefiction #specfic #sff #translation #translatedfiction

Cuca by Alfonsina Storni translated by Alina Lazar and Anna Evelyn White Read the full story in translation and the original at the link to the latest issue in our bio! #fiction #shortstories #speculativefiction #specfic #sff #translation #translatedfiction

Please repost! 💖 We're creeping up to £5,000 funded with 14 days to go — we want to keep publishing optimistic sci-fi and fantasy! We have both print issues of our new magazine available together in one pledge: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam... #scifi #fantasy #scififantasy #solarpunk

The poem from the latest @samovarmag.bsky.social Heritage / Speaker | Hablante / Herencia by Angela Acosta translated by Angela Acosta Read this poem in translation and the original language at the link to the latest issue in our bio! #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff #samovar #translation