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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· 27d

A visual poem this time! Our Love Is A Fiction Demanding To Be Future by Jenna Hanchey @jennahanchey.bsky.social "IMAGINING Other LIVES Coming Along THE COSMIC DISTANCE LADDER" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

A black and white collage ovethe background of a mosaic image of Callisto's surface. The text is accented by stars, mushrooms, a white tulip, a narwhal, and a crow.

POETRY

by Jenna Hanchey
Our Love Is A Fiction Demanding To Be Future

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IMAGINING
Other LIVES
Coming Along
THE COSMIC DISTANCE LADDER
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13 July 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 13

The Strange Horizons Fund Drive ends in 4 days! Increasing 2027 fiction rates to 9c/word is just $1520 away! You can still fund a poem, review or short story directly or secure one of our Fund Drive patches. If you've already donated, please share widely! Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 12

The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire by India Holton reviewed by Anushree Nande Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire by India Holton featuring blue and yellow image of domed building.

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REVIEWS
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There is a mystery to be solved regarding the strange magical goings-on at Ravenscroft Manor (one which resolves itself with a surprising but welcome twist), but the pacing overall is slow, until, right on cue—BOOM. In all the ways that matter.
reviewer: Anushree Nande

6 July 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 12

The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex reviewed by Octavia Cade Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex featuring a round shell with many tendrils coming out of it in the middle of a forest.

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This is a volume that promotes the idea that speculative eco-fiction and climate fiction can develop away from dystopias and into spaces where cooperation, compassion, and ultimately connection are paramount.
reviewer: Octavia Cade

6 July 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 12

The reviews are in! Angel Down by Daniel Kraus reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of Angel Down by Daniel Kraus featuring a cloud of smoke inside radar-like circles.

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I would rather have read a work of pure genre fiction. Something like Alice Winn’s In Memoriam (2023)... or Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts (2024)... These works are camp, but they are honest camp. They don’t pretend that the supernatural can inflect history and its horrors, but accept that it can merely reflect them...
reviewer: Abigail Nussbaum

6 July 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 12

In Critical Friends: Reading Queerly, Dean Leetal, William Shaw and Dan Hartland discuss how do, should, and can reviewers and critics interested in LGBTQ+ people and their representation approach texts both avowedly queer and apparently heteronormative? Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Critical Friends
The Strange Horizons SF/F Criticism Podcast

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 10

My Dog is a Fish by Elizabeth Lee Vines "If all bodies, for that matter, remember the carbon of their tissues swinging from trees, honey dripping down fur" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

POETRY

by Elizabeth Lee Vines
My Dog is a Fish

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If all bodies, for that matter,
remember the carbon of their tissues
swinging from trees, honey dripping
down fur
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6 July 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 10

Promises, Promises by Cara Masten DiGirolamo Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

FICTION

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His app was called Promises Promises, and its download page was one of the last things in Ellie’s search history—behind two hundred chapters of Fruits Basket and six clickbait articles with titles all on the pattern of 17 Spectacular Strategies to Strengthen your Psychic Supremacy.
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Promises, Promises
by Cara Masten DiGirolamo

6 July 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 8

Hero Worship by Jessica Stritch "the middle of the story (notoriously problematic) is likely missing a little mortal peril" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

POETRY

by Jessica Stritch
Hero Worship

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the middle of the story
(notoriously problematic)
is likely missing a little mortal peril
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6 July 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 5

Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta reviewed by Amritesh Mukherjee Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta featuring a pink whale jumping out of a bunch of flowers.

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In a genre that has long dissolved its individual voice into an inherited chorus, into the comfortable grammar of gods and heroes, it builds its own mythology. Mad Sisters of Esi does not stagger toward the nearest handrail; it leaps. It trusts the fall.
reviewer: Amritesh Mukherjee

29 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 5

anOther Nemesis by Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon, and Maxwell I. Gold reviewed by Tristan Beiter @tristanbeiter.bsky.social Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of anOther Nemesis by Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon, and Maxwell I. Gold featuring five non-human figures with horns and wings painted in dripping paint.

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As a whole, I think anOther Nemesis offers an interesting picture of feminist and decolonial social/political poetics and does so with a breadth of focus that is only possible because of its position as a multi-authored text.
reviewer: Tristan Beiter

29 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 5

The reviews are in! Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times by Joe P. L. Davidson reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times, by Joe P. L. Davidson featuring orange yellow and purple flower pattern similar to wallpaper.

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unlikethe very contradictions of Davidson's analysis themselves suggest a stronger, more lucid, work trapped within the postmodernist argumentation that today's academic life alas makes mandatory if one wishes to be taken seriously within it as a scholar
reviewer: Nader Elhefnawy

29 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 3

The Wisdom of the Galaxy by Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social "...I asked Roz what the aliens looked like, and he glanced at me like I was an idiot and said “birds.” “They’re birds?” I’d pressed, and he said that obviously they were birds..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Pretty much everyone liked to play with Oscar, except for Roz, who would just hang back and watch. I didn’t give it much thought, until one time we were having a slow morning and I asked Roz what the aliens looked like, and he glanced at me like I was an idiot and said “birds.” “They’re birds?” I’d pressed, and he said that obviously they were birds...
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The Wisdom of the Galaxy
by Will McMahon

29 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 2

A Brightness Queering Everything: The Haunting Potential of Animal Worlds in Vandermeer, Jones, and Shelley by Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

NON-FICTION

"This, I believe, is the promise inherent in queering the world: a chance to reach for a subjectivity and relationality that allows what was once untouchable, monstrous, and other to become an avenue for expression, for acceptance, and for understanding."

A Brightness Queering Everything: The Haunting Potential of Animal Worlds in Vandermeer, Jones, and Shelley
by Ben Berman Ghan

29 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 2

New tiers at the Fund Drive including - a signed copy of Yoke of Stars by RB Lemberg - a crocheted Pikachu dumpling by Regalli, a friend of Strange Horizons You can also sponsor a work directly! Become a patron of poetry, reviews, fiction and art today! Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jul 1

haunting the homeowner by Hikari Leilani Miya "also, i’m haunting this home as a raccoon." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

POETRY

by Hikari Leilani Miya
haunting the homeowner

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also, i’m haunting this home as a raccoon.
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29 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 29

River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse reviewed by Alex Kingsley Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse featuring three people with fire in the background and a skull in the clouds in the sky.

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Roanhorse is not interested in giving us straight answers to the questions she raises, nor should she be. The questions do not have easy answers. The best we can do is sit with them. There are stories in River of Bones to both delight and challenge the reader, calling upon the audience to look inward and see where their own values lie.
reviewer: Alex Kingsley

22 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 29

The Young Die Old by Nguyễn Bình Phương, translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn reviewed by Rachel Cordasco Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of The Young Die Old by Nguyễn Bình Phương, translated by Khải Q. Nguyễn featuring four people riding in an ox drawn cart under a red and purple sky.

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What of the thick, gorgeous imagery with which Phương opens various chapters...? Phương is at his very best when offering these vibrant pieces, and it is absolutely no surprise that he is a poet as well as a prose writer.
reviewer: Rachel Cordasco

22 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 29

The reviews are in! Vigil by George Saunders reviewed by David Soyka Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of Vigil by George Saunders featuring a person falling through dark and light clouds.

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unlike Golden Age science fiction novels in which cardboard characters nevertheless engage with big ideas, the idea here is much more mundane: Climate change is bad; people responsible for climate change aren’t so much bad as misguided; however, people can change.
reviewer: David Soyka

22 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 25

The Fund Drive is still on! There are still rewards available including signed books and our super cool limited edition patch that is only available during the Fund Drive! 😎 Donate ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons limited edition Fund Drive clothing patch featuring a person with a star glowing in their chest next to a being with one large eye.

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 25

Permafrost by M. Frost @mfrostwords.bsky.social "the way the maw of the world opens to consume what you have built." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

POETRY

by M. Frost
Permafrost

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the way the maw of the world opens to
consume what you have built.
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22 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 24

The Glass Beach by Nestor Walters "premise: a shooter on a left-flank maneuver, tracking through holographic sights, mouth full of carbon dust" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

POETRY

by Nestor Walters
The Glass Beach

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premise: a shooter on a left-flank
maneuver, tracking through holographic
sights, mouth full of carbon dust
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22 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 23

Here's another poem from the Fund Drive issue! Log 6324, earthdate unknown by Rose Mary Boehm "I hope someone will find this digicorder and make it work, because whatever they’ve told you is crap." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... Donate ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Log 6324, earthdate unknown
by Rose Mary Boehm

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I hope someone will find this digicorder and
make it work, because whatever they’ve told you
is crap.
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 22

House of Margins by Tloto Tsamaase reviewed by Sinclair Adams Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of House of Margins by Tloto Tsamaase featuring a partially shadowed white building with hills behind and words visible behind in the sky.

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House of Margins emerges as an epic novel that hits many high notes with its evolutions of form and timely talking points. I quite literally have never read a book like this one which deftly shifts genres and formats, yet weaves it all together in a cohesive narrative and transcendent horror-mystery.
reviewer: Sinclair Adams

15 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 22

Dead Boys in Space by Sara Youngblood Gregory reviewed by William Shaw @williamshaw.bsky.social Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of Dead Boys in Space by Sara Youngblood Gregory featuring two Grecian statues floating in front of a moon, everything tinged in red.

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The center of the universe is a small-town gay bar is one of the finest poems in the collection: a celebration of queer intimacy in a hostile, alienating context. Yet some of its power derives from its placement in this collection...
reviewer: William Shaw

15 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 22

The reviews are in! Kill The Poet, Save The World! by Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu reviewed by Akumbu Uche Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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cover of Kill The Poet, Save The World! by Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu featuring an upside-down Black man from the neck up.

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It is this love for humanity that gives Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu’s writing, rooted in the Nigerian experience, transnational appeal, and whether you fall in with the geeks, the mystics, the revolutionaries, or the romantics, Kill the Poet, Save the World! has a ready-made poem for you in it.
reviewer: Akumbu Uche

15 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 19

Dear Trilobites by RJ Taylor @rjtaylor.bsky.social "Despite the two hundred and fifty-two million years that separate us, I feel close to you tonight, dear trilobites." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

FICTION

Despite the two hundred and fifty-two million years that separate us, I feel close to you tonight, dear trilobites. The wind screams through the cracks in my home, while you rest in stone on my oaken desk worn soft by generations.

Dear Trilobites
by RJ Taylor

15 June 2026
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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 19

We're past $12,500 so here's an essay from the Fund Drive issue! Against Worldbuilding. by Jenna Hanchey @jennahanchey.bsky.social Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

by Jenna Hanchey
Against Worldbuilding.

Worlding, then, centers intimate and attentive relation to the text as an active participant rather than a passive recipient of our idea generation. In doing so, this anti-colonial epistemology releases the individual pressure of god-like creation that leads to extraction and dehumanization, and instead encourages engaging with SFF writing as a collaborative process with the world itself.

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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 18

A fourth group of signed books is now available over at the Strange Horizons Fund Drive with titles by Charlie Jane Anders @charliejane.bsky.social and Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com ! Donate and secure one of the six available books at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Cover of The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Cover of Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders

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Cover of The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal
Cover of Apprehension by Mary Robinette Kowal

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons· Jun 18

ἀγκυλοθάλασσος by Sonya Taaffe "Queer how the sea makes no bed to set a clock by" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...