Robuta

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When you sign on, my instant message service creaks like a door's hinges / not oiled enough to admit a ghost.

Captain Womack recruited me as Hollywood's liaison to the military-entertainment complex, saying they needed more Tinseltown savvy over at Task Force Loki: the...

The Chimes, for all its musical shenanigans, is actually a straightforward re-enactment of any number of classic fairytales in which rags and riches fall in...

I cowed myself into my own submission, / I sprang myself into my own domain.

Beyond the Rift presents a disconcertingly othering view of women.

It came spilling over Asia like grains of rice measured into a pan. Digital systems were corrupted. Tailor-made viruses swept through urban populations, spread...

This episode was frustrating and hilarious, just like so many things in life. What do the last two episodes have in store for us? Maybe something coherent...

Maya Beck is a lapsed Muslim, meta-otaku, broke blipster, and socially-anxious social justice bard. She is an alum of writing programs including VONA,...

I have lived in Recife my whole life and it is a very interesting place to grow up in.

Liz Williams is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in Glastonbury, England, where she is co-director of a witchcraft supply business. She has been...

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Daniel Ausema's "Among the Sighs of the Violoncellos."

Myth, our sister said, Revolution.

I should have known you were an alien because of the tattoo on your left shoulder.

Anathem is a unique, impressive but fairly mad novel: one part hubris to one part taking the piss to one part gnarly geek awesomeness.

When he is not receiving tonnes of rejections from cat adoption agencies, Innocent finds time to read and write. He is a 2019 Author of Tomorrow and a Gerald...

Eric Hendel is a graduate of the University of Vermont, where he studied Japanese with a focus on Japanese literature and a concentration in second language...

I am the universe, / the beginning and the end, yet

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I look forward to reading more works of science fiction, especially space westerns, that can envision a future where tools of death, regardless of their shape...

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It may be the clash between genre expectations that makes the novel more interesting than many an exercise more firmly based in what we think science fiction...

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I once fell in love with a man who had an open book for a face.

The teaching of science fiction, like the naming of cats, is a difficult matter. It's a problem that has been exercising teachers and science fiction fans...

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Arie Coleman's "20/20."

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Six hundred fell by her hand, she who loved me.

The land is lost and all it held. / Never again will its name be spoken.

Who makes Strange Horizons happen?

I hope we get more books like Gideon the Ninth.

Having multiple characters automatically gives the viewer a story to think about that they are not already part of.

We are not all built to be beautiful, we are not all built to rampage.

"I can remember when I was about four going to the Natural History Museum in New York, and I was just entranced. I always wanted to live in a museum."

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Kat Kourbeti presents Karim Kattan's "Native Country", narrated by Strange Horizons' Senior Fiction...

For all that the title offers, it is the most unassuming of the words in the subtitle that ultimately seems to guide the editorial vision: "approaches."

These nights, when Gramma fell asleep in her rocker, Luba knelt on all fours to press her ear to the rug; she heard the Undersea rising, the roar of the...

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We should be able to write stories and invent technologies and have them be recognized for what they are, instead of worrying about whether they will be...

In some ways its brevity is a strength; the narrative is a rapid succession of robots, ronin, and roustabout swordplay.

sustenance for body and mind / the plants are telling stories

then I appeared like a dancing bear

It is with great pleasure that I present to you...

Weather Underwater is a novel examining the link between fascism and violence.

The novel's body-snatching is a versatile metaphor for sexual violence, colonialism, capitalism, and the intersection between the three.

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We've already witnessed Robin Hood, the BBC's own attempt to reinvent another old show in the same contemporary vein as Doctor Who, mixing brisk historical...

The Childbearing Special Issue

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Even as a kid I was always trying to create worlds and stories with my art.

And I feel like there are just so many layers to Popsicle Pete.

Selila Honig is a digital artist, writer, and mapmaker living, at the moment, in Washington DC. She has an allergy to permanent dwellings and a love of road...

AJ Fitzwater is a fabulous unicorn pedaling furiously inside a human meat suit from Christchurch, New Zealand. A Sir Julius Vogel Award winner and graduate of...

You will only miss / them when I / am gone.

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Panic will come / for every fuckwitted one of us

Finding your community can feel like finding home and family

I believe but for the events of this week, Josef would have been in a cell alongside Kropotsky & the others. As things stand it's almost certain he will...

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Nora Anthony's "Them Boys."

Bangkok Haunts is a fast read, but one that stays in the mind long afterward, plaguing the senses with the smell of curries, or the flashing lights of Soi...

Redundant suggests not an imminent arrival of dystopia, but highlights something that is embedded within us.

Francis Gene-Rowe teaches science fiction, game writing and fantasy at the University of Surrey. Francis is the London Science Fiction Research Community's...

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Science fiction fandom is still a few years short of the first of its centenaries but there are plenty of three-quarter century anniversaries coming up, often...

When Nick Chopper was a boy and not yet tin, they used to say every mirror was haunted. It's why the wights wouldn't look in them; it's why if you broke one...

By this point, if not before, we may be asking ourselves: why do we recognise this as narrative? What is it that persists, across these differently-named...

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Alex Shvartsman and K. A. Teryna's "Copy Cat."

who has a mother? I say, all babies but also:

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Alexandra Seidel spent many a night stargazing when she was a child. These days, she writes stories and poems, something the stargazing probably helped with....

It can be difficult to determine just where one should begin with Elizabeth Bear.

"What is my canonical narrative, what are the issues important to me, who are the people I am writing about? How do their different identity concerns...

Science fiction is a genre that continues to struggle with its own colonialist history, of which many of its portrayals of extractivism are a part. Science...

It's made clear from the start of Fledgling that we should not expect a comfortable read. Within moments of waking in darkness and hunger and pain, with no...

Dustin Kurtz is a bookseller in downtown Manhattan. And though the city feels open and endless on cool summer nights, he misses the lakes of home.

Each night I bid good evening to the great mass in my closet.

For this special issue of Strange Horizons, our three poetry editors set out to describe their visions for speculative poetry. This is where they ended up.

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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Meda Kahn's "Difference of Opinion."