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17 August 2015

[Reviews ]

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FICTION: 20/20, by Arie Coleman

You practice medicine long enough, someone will get hurt and it’ll be your fault. You do your best to protect your patients from yourself and your human failings. When you can’t, you learn how to cope with the guilt. Or you don’t, and you quit. Or you overdose and you quit forever. Or you respecialize.

FICTION: Podcast: 20/20, by Arie Coleman, read by Anaea Lay

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

EDITORIAL: A Farewell Message, by Julia Rios

I had several very long conversations with Jed, weighing pros and cons, and asking ridiculous amounts of questions. He was extremely thoughtful and patient. Each time I would end the conversation by thanking him and saying that I was pretty sure I still wouldn't apply to become an editor. But I kept coming back to thinking about how much I loved the magazine.

POETRY: Loss Prelude, by Arlene Ang

Each note vibrates its emptiness.

COLUMN: Me and Science Fiction: Ghost in the Shell, by Eleanor Arnason

What follows is an attempt to introduce you to a lovely show. This won’t be easy, because Ghost in the Shell is complicated.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Find Me by Laura van den Berg, reviewed by Nina Allan
Wednesday: Science in Wonderland: the Scientific Fairy Tales of Britain by Melanie Keene, reviewed by Andy Sawyer
Friday: The Tropic of Serpents & Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan, reviewed by Electra Pritchett


10 August 2015

[Fiction by Margaret Killjoy]

(Fiction)

FICTION: Beyond Sapphire Glass, by Margaret Killjoy

We told you what we told every pilgrim: if your health wasn't bad, you had to stay with us a year before we'd lead you into the depths, before an angel would show you to the sapphire gate. Before we'd let you upload your mind, before we'd incinerate your body.

FICTION: Podcast: Beyond Sapphire Glass, by Margaret Killjoy, read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Margaret Killjoy's "Beyond Sapphire Glass."

ARTICLE: Artist Interview: Geneva Benton, by Tory Hoke

I'm sure once that "goal" is reached I still won't be happy with the emotion or expression, so it's like a never-ending rabbit hole. It's like never being truly satisfied, and that's what I love about art as a whole.

POETRY: Using Only These, by Merav Hoffman

Does it matter if it lets us fly away?

COLUMN: Scores, by John Clute

It might be worth thinking that Ishiguro has not in fact been as undevious as all that.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: The Awesome by Eve Darrow, reviewed by Christina Scholz
Wednesday: Uprooted by Naomi Novik, reviewed by Nandina Ramachandran and Phoebe Salzman-Cohen
Friday: Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep, ed Peter Öberg, reviewed by Stephanie Chan


3 August 2015

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FICTION: Probably Definitely, by Heather Morris

Tommie’s been holding on to a Revolutions ticket since November. Tommie’s never seen the band live before, never seen Savannah Sullivan strut across a stage close enough to reach out and touch. It was supposed to be the show that changed everything, Tommie’s first concert. And it was supposed to be tonight.

FICTION: Podcast: Probably Definitely, by Heather Morris, read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Heather Morris's "Probably Definitely."

POETRY: Kanchenjunga, by Ajapa Sharma

The peaks shot out to the universe, / breaking the boundaries of the horizon.

COLUMN: Intertitles: It Follows, and the Zombification of Rape Culture, by Genevieve Valentine

The premise of It Follows seems simple enough: Our young heroine contracts a supernatural STD that makes her the target of an unnameable monster.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: The Devourers by Indra Das, reviewed by Salik Shah
Wednesday: Sense8 and the Science Fiction of Real Life , by Maggie Clark
Friday: The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud, reviewed by Anthony Cardno


27 July 2015

[Article by Paul McAuley]

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ARTICLE: Farewell, Fantastic Pluto, by Paul McAuley

Less than sixty years after Sputnik the first era of solar system exploration is over.

ARTICLE: The Strange Horizons Book Club: The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss, by Octavia Cade, Kev McVeigh, Martin Petto, and Electra Pritchett

"Earth is frightful, the new planet is scary. It's space that's the haven, the place of we-don't-have-to-make-decisions-yet."

POETRY: this sacred garden, by Andrew Watson

let my wholeness be a forest / washed with depth and darkness

POETRY: Podcast: July Poetry, by Betsy Ladyzhets, Stephanie Wytovich, Ryu Ando, Gabby Reed, and Andrew Watson, read by Betsy Ladyzhets, Ciro Faienza, Ryu Ando, Nicholas Davidge, and Andrew Watson

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents poetry from the issues.

COLUMN: Matrilines: Dion Fortune: Writing through the Veil, by Kari Sperring

[. . .] every writer is rooted in their culture or context, and that inevitably flavours and shapes their work in some way or another, on a more or less conscious level, and different writers are more or less open and aware of this. Dion Fortune was, perhaps, more aware of this than most.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Haw by Sean Jackson, reviewed by K. Kamo
Wednesday: Galapagos Regained by James Morrow, reviewed by Alix E. Harrow
Friday: The Stars Seem So Far Away by Margrét Helgadóttir, reviewed by Octavia Cade


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