Hi all,
One of those weeks where I just have time for the bare facts, so: here we are again, with some things for you to read:
Hi all --
Happy June! We're kicking off this month with a story by Benjamin C. Kinney: "The First Confirmed Case of Non-Corporeal Recursion: Patient Anita R."
The seventh repetition almost played out like all the others. A different person filled Luis' place, but despite the evidence before m... 2016-06-06 16:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday, all! Apologies once again for the slightly later than usual post.
It's been another busy month at the magazine. Our editorial teams are making their final decisions for our upcoming Our Queer Planet special (and it's shaping up to be good one!) A few members of the Strange Horizons tea...
2016-05-31 23:23:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
New issue time! This week, our story is "The Beef" by J. D. Moyer:
What's changed is the moral zeitgeist. People don't want to eat animals anymore—at least not animals like us (those that care for their young, comfort each other). They're too much like people. It's not enough that o... 2016-05-23 21:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, everyone!
Our new issue is up, and includes delights such as a new story by Sarah Pinsker (who those of you following genre news may have seen just won a Nebula for her Asimov's story "Our Lady of the Open...
2016-05-16 21:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a new week and a new issue of Strange Horizons, and this week we're excited to bring you the annual SF Count, collated by our glorious leader Niall and made beautiful with the data visualisation skills of E G Cosh. Head on over and find out where in the SF world is publishing the most reviews content by women and non-bi...
2016-05-10 08:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Tuesday, all! Apologies for the belated email.
You can find our new issue here, which includes a story from Tegan Moore, "How High Your Gods Can Count":
The tourist squats with her ...
2016-05-03 18:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, lovely Patrons! Apologies for the slightly later than normal message. Many thanks to all who commented on the logo discussion -- your comments were very helpful.
It's been a busy month at Strange Horizon's HQ, with the various editorial teams planning out the rest of the year's special issues while getting up to the usual business of running the magazine. Speaking of special issues, f...
2016-04-25 22:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Progress on our new website is proceeding apace, and what you see alongside this post, as previously threatened, is the current draft of our new logo. Or rather, several drafts. What do you think?
We've been through several possible designs, and this "diagonal" is comfortably the one that we like the best. We wanted something that was cleaner and more contemporary than our ...
2016-04-21 09:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Monday! Here's our new issue, which includes a friendly alien:
In a rush Nina’s short, dense body pushes into the room, snatching away her things and throwing them across the room. ... 2016-04-18 17:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
I'm back! Many thanks to Jane for stepping in and sending out last week's notification: I was in darkest Yorkshire, where there turned out to be less wi-fi than I was expecting. I return refreshed, relaxed, and keen to encourage as many people as possible to read The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo. (And, to be honest, all her other books, if you haven't.)
More i...
2016-04-11 20:20:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
I'm covering for Niall this week, as he continues to be on-the-run and out of wifi, so i thought I should let you all know about our latest issue.
This week's fiction is "The Right Sort of Monsters" by Kelly M Sandoval, illustrated by Galen Dara (pictured above). We have poetry from Bryan Thao ...
2016-04-06 10:42:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Evening all,
I'm just back from this year's UK Eastercon (aka Mancunicon), which as far as I can tell went reasonably smoothly (give or take some frustratingly small programme rooms, and the obligatory one panel that went off the rails in an unfortunate way), and at which I met at least one Patreon supporter (hi!) and treated SH tea party attendees to a sneak peak of our possible new logo (r...
2016-03-28 22:34:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Evening all --
Something of an update-on-the-run this week, since I'm currently travelling for day-job-related reasons. But we have a new issue, and it contains good things! Specifically it contains Margaret Killjoy's story "The Name of the Forest" (with art by Luke Spooner, as showcased abo...
2016-03-21 21:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post
In this week's issue we bring you a first professional sale: "Meltwater" by Benjamin C. Kinney:
The church lies at the edge of the Mediterranean fracture, below cliffs barely eight thousand years old. Glacial melt pours down the precipice, filling the air with a fine frigid mist. Rime ice coa... 2016-03-14 18:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post
And just like that, it's March, and an issue filled with new things:
We have a new story by Tim Akers: "The Angel of Divine Intent."
Not one, but two new poems: "2016-03-07 18:34:07 +0000 UTC View Post
If I've counted correctly, this is the first five-Monday February since 1988; which is significant for no particular reason, but is a nice piece of trivia.
We're not letting the occasion go to waste, at any rate: this week's issue is a small AfroSF special—not one that you should see as any...
2016-02-29 22:45:30 +0000 UTC View Post
In the belly of the behemoth, her hand arced loosely over the nerve bundle, the diver switches off her lamp, and two meters of murky green visibility drops instantly to perfect black. The touch of her hand against the rail is her only landmark. She deftly fixes her wetsuit's tether there, careful not to put too much pressure along the nerve, and then stretches her burning limbs out int... 2016-02-22 22:23:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
A slight change to our usual running order this week, and a bit of a non-fiction bonanza. This week our feature is Graeme Macdonald's Pioneer Award-winning essay on the energy of science fiction (previously published in Paradoxa): it's a long read, but a fascinating one.
We also have an ...
2016-02-15 21:32:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon and good evening, one and all:
In this week's issue , we have for you -- aside from the fine art by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein that accompanies this post:
Hi all,
We kick off February with Stefon Mears' story "Conjure Man", lost in the forest:
Heath tried to keep the glare of his pocket L.E.D flashlight on the loose dirt trail in front of him. Hard to keep it still when the canopy of maples above completely cut off the f...
2016-02-01 23:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all --
In this week's issue you'll find out how The Jetsons and The Flintstones can help us think about the use of energy in SF, what the future might hold for British horror, a new poem by Kit Hamada (and our monthly poetry podcast), reviews of Lincoln Michel's stories, Sean Wallace's dieselpunk, and Yonder...
2016-01-25 21:50:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
This week's issue is up on the site -- with art by Patricio Betteo illustrating Arkady Martine's story "How the God Auzh-Aravik Brought Order to the World Outside the World" (bit of a theme this month, if you hadn't spotted it), an interview with the artist, a poem by Margaret Wack, and reviews of books...
2016-01-18 23:36:30 +0000 UTC View Post
In the land of Utz there lived a man named Iyob. He had one daughter, named Zophar, whom he loved very much. And it came to be that, on her third year upon the earth, Zophar fell ill with a sickness; and, after several days of suffering, died.
So begins this week'...
2016-01-11 22:18:58 +0000 UTC View Post
... and we're back. Happy new year!
We've got a great new issue to kick off 2016 for you: it includes Nin Harris's story "Tower of the Rosewater Goblet", a poem by Naru Dames Sundar, Kari Sperring's latest Matrilines column, and our annual 2016-01-04 16:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Our final issue of 2015 is up! Which means (a) a bumper week of reading to tide you over to the new year, and (b) this month's ebook edition, attached to this post.
In the issue, you will find:
Isn't this week's art lovely? The colours are gorgeous. It's by Jonathan Apilado, for Sunny Moraine's story "At Whatever Are Their Moons", which begins like this:
At night, when the desert sands stretch out below them like a rollingsea, Cora and the ship perform duets for the ben...
2015-12-14 22:15:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to December! Well, OK, most of you have presumably been in December for about a week at this point, but we've only just got here. It's a bit of a compressed month for us, because we only publish three issues (we skip the last week of the year), but have nearly the full complement of material. Kicking off with, th...
2015-12-07 22:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, truth be told, the new issue isn't quite up on the site yet -- but it's late over here, I've got an ebook sitting here waiting that includes this issue and everything else from November besides, and so why not send it on out into the world?
This week's delights include an essay by Rose Lemberg on the value ...
2015-12-01 01:06:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Imagine, then, a story that is effectively a post-gay, queer sensibility story being published in 1967—a story so prophetic that it leapfrogs all of the slog of gay and gender politics, AIDS, and queer and gender theory to simply show us that in the future there will be new genders and new kinds of sex.
I'm a couple of days late with this update because I'm ...
2015-11-25 17:27:44 +0000 UTC View Post