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SFFTA Nominees, by Niall Harrison (05/21/12): This week's shortlists are for the snappily named 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards: Long Form Good Luck, Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi, translated from the Japanese by Neil Nadelman (Haikasoru) Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Towfik, translated from the Arabic...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (05/21/12): Time for another issue! This week we have: Nghi Vo's story, "Tiger Stripes" Rachael Jennings' poem, "Scene I, graveyard" John Clute's latest Scores, looking at Robert Sheckley and Brian Evenson (and endings) Abigail Nussbaum's review of The Avengers, with reviews...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (05/07/12): In this week's issue we have: A story by Robert Reed: "Bright Lights" A poem by John Zaharick, " Neuschwabenland" Robyn Fleming's latest Dice and D-Pads column on "Playing with Emotion" and Mass Effect 3 And in reviews, today Erin...
The Success of the Clarke, by Niall Harrison (05/03/12): Nina Allan pays tribute to this year's Clarke Award winner (here's a video of the presentation by Jeff Noon), and the Award itself: I think [The Testament of Jessie Lamb is] a beautiful book. Not just an imaginative use of...
And the winner is ..., by Niall Harrison (05/02/12): ... The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers, which as stated earlier, was my preference from the shortlist. Many congratulations to Jane Rogers. Trivia notes: Jessie Lamb becomes the fourth consecutive winner written in the first person (after a...
Notes on a Shortlist 2012, by Niall Harrison (05/02/12): It's often said that our field is obsessed with awards, spends too much time arguing about them, and perhaps that's true; but that's not the same thing as saying that awards don't matter. They do matter, as one of the...
Clarke in Review, by Niall Harrison (05/02/12): Being a roundup of coverage of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist; see also the pre-shortlist coverage of the books that Abigail rounded up here. Adam Roberts Part one (Bear, Magary, Mieville) Part two (Rogers, Stross, Tepper) Christopher Priest...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (04/30/12): ... many exciting things! First up, it's a reprint week: we have Elizabeth A. Lynn's "The Gods of Reorth", selected and introduced by Debbie Notkin. Genevieve Valentine's latest Intertitles looks at "Feminist Identity as Supernatural in Orlando and I am...
Meet the Editor, by Niall Harrison (04/27/12): To mark the publication of her anthology Beyond Binary, Brit Mandelo has got a couple of interviews out: one at Autostraddle, and a long three-part conversation with Nicola Griffith: one, two, three. From the Autostraddle interview: What draws you to...
Start Anywhere, And Read, by Niall Harrison (04/26/12): Graham Sleight's final Yesterday's Tomorrows column looks at John M. Ford: John M. Ford (1957-2006) had a career that appears, at least from the outside, to have jumped from one genre to another. He was a very difficult author for...
CSZ and LARB, by Niall Harrison (04/26/12): Elsewhere: the latest issue of the Cascadia Subduction Zone focuses on poetry, while the fourth issue, a special on women and science, is available as a free PDF download. Meanwhile the LA Review of Books has formally launched, with an...
Hugo Short Stories, by Niall Harrison (04/25/12): And so the blogging of Hugo shortlists begins. On the short stories, from most to least enthusiastic: Charles Tan, Justin at Staffer's Musings, Nicholas Whyte, Ian Sales (the latter of whom is also deeply unhappy to see Leviathan Wakes on...
Point, Counterpoint, by Niall Harrison (04/25/12): Abigail Nussbaum on The Cabin in the Woods: There is, quite obviously, a very large component here of blaming The Cabin in the Woods for not being the film I wanted it to be. Goddard and Whedon set out to...
The Problem With Exotic, by Niall Harrison (04/25/12): An excellent post by Tori Truslow, on wrestling with the judges' comments when giving her short story an honourable mention in the James White Award: Tori Truslow’s ‘Train in Vain’ is a compelling tale of exotic intrigue and intricate automata,...
A History of Feminist SF in Britain, by Niall Harrison (04/24/12): aka one of the panels at this year's Eastercon that I found particularly rewarding, as a counterpoint to the occasionally US-centric history of feminist sf; Stevie Carroll provides some panel notes on the useful timeline that the panel started to...
History Is More Complex Than A Fantasy Novel, by Niall Harrison (04/24/12): Daniel Abraham on misguided argument from "authenticity" in defence of certain types of fantasy: The idea that the race, gender, or sexual roles of a given work of secondary world, quasi-medieval fantasy were dictated by history doesn’t work on any...
SFRA Award Winners, by Niall Harrison (04/24/12): And in the week's other awards news, the Science Fiction Research Association has announced its winners: Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to SF/F studies: Pamela Sargent Pioneer Award for outstanding essay-length work of the year: David M. Higgins, "Toward a...
Shirley Jackson Award Nominees, by Niall Harrison (04/23/12): Full ballot here. In best novel: The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock (Doubleday) The Dracula Papers, Reggie Oliver (Chômu Press) The Great Lover, Michael Cisco (Chômu Press) Knock Knock, S. P. Miskowski (Omnium Gatherum Media) The Last Werewolf,...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (04/23/12): New week, new issue: This month's feature article is Ann Wilkes on "Airships: Not Just Flying Billboards" Our poem this week is "Foam" by Selena Martens And in reviews, Paul Kincaid kicks off the week with a look at In...
Strange Horizons, w/c 16th April, by Rachel Monte (04/23/12): Last week, we had: Andrea Kneeland's short story, "Beneath Impossible Circumstances""From the House of Dionysos", a poem by Virginia M. MohlereAnd a two-part review (part 1 and part 2) of the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke shortlist, by Adam Roberts, and...
Fantasy Clarke follow-up, by Niall Harrison (04/18/12): In lieu of any proper Eastercon writeup (although see Liz Batty's impressive collection of con reports, I wanted to at least mention the outcome of one of the panels I was on and mentioned here beforehand, the fantasy Clarke Award...
Priest and Clarke, round n, by Niall Harrison (04/18/12): It occurs to me that I never linked to Catherynne Valente's second post reflecting on Christopher Priest's intervention into this year's Clarke Award process, and should have done: Everyone has had their say, including me. I am pro people voicing...
Heidegger and Mieville, round two, by Niall Harrison (04/18/12): Dan Hartland considers Adam Roberts' critique of Embassytown: I’m not really arguing with Professor Roberts – in fact, I agree with practically every word of his review (though maybe not with “tweedledumtweedledee-ish”), and Miéville’s self-imposed difficulty is that he has...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (04/18/12): In this week's issue: we have Andrea Kneeland's story "Beneath Impossible Circumstances", Virginia M. Mohlere's poem "From the House of Dionysos, Adam Roberts' two part review of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, and on Friday, William Mingin tackles...
Deadline for Fiction Editor Applications, by Niall Harrison (04/13/12): Just a quick note this morning, to say that we're still looking for new fiction editors, but will be closing to applications next Friday 20th April. So if you've been meaning to get around to sending us your details, now's...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (04/10/12): Slightly delayed by Eastercon (me, not the issue), but this week we have: Part two of "Area 54" by Hunter Liguore (read part one here) Mike Allen's poem "Kandinsky's Galaxy" Erin Horakova's review of Low Town (aka The Straight Razor...
Eastercon tea party reminder, by Niall Harrison (04/07/12): Just as it says on the tin: if you're at Eastercon, the SH tea party is this morning from 11.00-12.30 in Wentworth/room 40. We'd love to see you there!...
BSFA Awards, by Niall Harrison (04/06/12): Paul Kincaid is unimpressed by this year's BSFA short fiction nominees. Of Paul Cornell's offering, for instance: And what we are being told is nonsense, but it is nonsense engagingly wrapped up with the weird technology of a weird world....
Dereliction of Duty, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (04/06/12): Some loose ends from the Christopher Priest/Clarke Award discussion: John Scalzi posted a couple of followups to his initial post, the latter linking to a comment by Priest (who also put in an appearance at Martin McGrath's post and edited...
Being Brown in Space, by Niall Harrison (04/04/12): Continuing in a Star Trek vein, at Racialicious, Kendra James has an appreciation of clearly the best Trek captain, Benjamin Sisko, and the actor portraying him, Avery Brooks: With a highly educated and vocal African American actor in the lead...
Nostalgia for the Federation, by Niall Harrison (04/04/12): Nader Elhefnawy pushes back against Star Trek bashing and the vogue for gritty: Of course the last four decades – this age of unreason, of identity politics and ideologically convenient pseudo-science and neoliberal economics - have been a grave disappointment...
Standing on the Shoulders of Dwarfs, by Niall Harrison (04/03/12): Saladin Ahmed at Salon on race and Game of Thrones: But now, as our beloved genre finds its way into “normal” people’s hearts and minds, fantasy fans are increasingly confronted with an inversion of this notion – a question that...
On Kiernan, by Niall Harrison (04/03/12): Gary K Wolfe reviews Caitlin R Kiernan's The Drowning Girl: There are least a few passages in her new novel The Drowning Girl: A Memoir in which Caitlín R. Kiernan seems determined to reinvent the terms of Gothic fiction from...
Ghosts, Dreams, Nothingness, by Niall Harrison (04/02/12): Gwyneth Jones' guest of honour talk from Beneluxcon, March 2012: I was asked for a short piece of writing, to feature in your first Progress Report. By chance, the short pieces that came to hand seemed to define an area...
Strange Horizons at Eastercon!, by Niall Harrison (04/02/12): Also this week: Eastercon, the British National Science Fiction Convention, and we -- which is to say I, and some contributors -- will be there! Strange Horizons is hosting a tea party on Saturday morning at 11am in Wentworth/room 40....
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (04/02/12): In this week's issue: Hunter Liguore's story, "Area 54" Alexandra Seidel's poem, "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe Matthew Cheney's latest Lexias column, "The Fact of a Fiction of a Fact Reviews kicks off with Michael Levy's take on The Clockwork Rocket by...
The 2011 SF Count, by Niall Harrison (04/02/12): Introduction It's back, by popular demand. Last year, following VIDA's analysis of the gender balance at mainstream book review venues, we put together a similar count for (some) sf venues. VIDA repeated their count last month, so here we are...
Strange Horizons, w/c 26th March, by Niall Harrison (04/01/12): In this week's issue, we had: Jeremy C. L. Jones' article, "A Boy and His Ghosts" John Clute's latest Scores, looking at Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway Gwynne Garfinkle's poem "bell, book, candle" Reviews of William Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor,...
Dereliction of Duty, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (03/30/12): Or "reax", as I believe the cool kids say. I'm currently on holiday in Italy with this view, so I'm trying not to spend too much time online and have probably missed some; but here's some of the discussion following...
Panel Parity, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (03/29/12): Remember Paul Cornell's big idea? Mike Glyer surveyed some conrunners, who engage in plenty of hand-wringing. Here's Steven Silver: If Paul were to attend a convention where I was running programming, I would most likely treat his request the same...
The Climate Games, by Niall Harrison (03/29/12): In addition to the links Abigail rounded up earlier, the release of The Hunger Games has occasioned many an article (or graph) on the general topic of the current vogue for YA dystopias; Torie Bosch's essay at Slate caught my...
The Hunger Links, by Abigail Nussbaum (03/29/12): The movie version of The Hunger Games has been in theaters for a week now, after a blockbusting opening weekend and generally positive reception from critics (85% freshness rating at Rotten Tomatoes) and fans of the book alike. It's also...
A Clarke For Fantasy?, by Niall Harrison (03/28/12): I know, I know ... the last thing our field needs is new awards, right? At the same time, in the UK, there's a bit of a gap. The British Science Fiction Award is nominally for either fantasy or sf,...
The Poetry of Joanna Russ, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (03/28/12): The latest issue of Stone Telling has a queer focus, with work by Sonya Taaffe, Amal El-Mohtar, Adrienne J. Odasso and others, plus a roundtable moderated by Julia Rios, plus the second part of Brit Mandelo's examination of Joanna Russ's...
Dereliction of Duty, by Niall Harrison (03/28/12): Bumped up from the comments, Christopher Priest is not happy about this year's Clarke Award shortlist, and has the reading to back it up. After details of the books he thinks should be there (Osama, By Light Alone, Wake Up...
The Clarke Award Shortlist, Reviewed, by Abigail Nussbaum (03/28/12): The 2012 Clarke shortlist has already engendered a lot of discussion (see Niall's here, and his roundup of other reactions). But what of the nominated books themselves? Here's a look at the critical reception that each has received: Hull Zero...
Best Fan [Insert Your Preference Here], by Niall Harrison (03/28/12): Mark Plummer's column in last week's issue tackled (among other things) the matter of fanzines and blogs, and wondered how widespread certain sentiments really were. At the File 770 blog, Mike Glyer has a round-up, and questions the debate: Rather,...
Clarke Reactions, by Niall Harrison (03/27/12): Yesterday's Clarke Award shortlist announcement seems to have generally been greeted with a hearty "hmm." Ian Sales was expecting a more literary shortlist, and detects a slight old-fashionedness about the nominees; Martin Wisse seems to be of similar mind. James...
The Rugged Track at Podcastle, by Niall Harrison (03/27/12): Some audio enjoyment for your Tuesday: Liz Argall's roller derby fairytale "The Rugged Track", published here last year, has been recorded for Podcastle, read by Tina Connolly....
The 2012 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist, by Niall Harrison (03/26/12): After the speculation, the shortlist: Greg Bear, Hull Zero Three (Gollancz) (review by Finn Dempster) Drew Magary, The End Specialist (Harper Voyager) China Miéville, Embassytown (Macmillan) (review by John Clute) Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press) (review...
Strange Horizons, w/c 19th March, by Niall Harrison (03/26/12): Last week we had: Kate Bachus' story, "Things Greater Than Love" Josh Burson's poem, "The Birds: A Collage in Four Legendary Species" Mark Plummer's latest Paraphernalia column, on "Disclosing the Ancient Mysteries" In reviews, Jesse Bullington's take on When We...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (03/20/12): This week we have Kate Bachus' story, "Things Greater Than Love"; Josh Burson's poem, "The Birds: A Collage in Four Legendary Species"; Mark Plummer's latest Paraphernalia column, on "Disclosing the Ancient Mysteries"; Jesse Bullington's review of When We Were Executioners...
Strange Horizons, w/c 12th March, by Niall Harrison (03/18/12): So in this week's issue we had: Cory Skerry's story "My Dignity in Scars" Shweta Narayan's poem "Yajñāḥ / Offering" And reviews of Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon by Liz Bourke, The Secret World of Arrietty by Indrapramit...
An Argument With Democracy, by Niall Harrison (03/16/12): Wrestling with the politics of Ken MacLeod's new novel, Intrusion, in which a dystopia is illustrated by a woman's resistance to taking a magic pill to pre-emptively fix any genetic defects in her unborn child. Nic Clarke for SFX: As...
Reclaiming Evolution, by Niall Harrison (03/16/12): Karen Burnham makes a sound point about the "evolution" of literature at the Locus Roundtable: Victorians also liked to picture the natural world as a sort of tree with humanity on top. However, evolution doesn’t work that way. Instead, organisms...
Brunner's Fantasy, by Niall Harrison (03/15/12): Max Cairnduff considers The Traveller in Black by John Brunner: Brunner gently mocks us. In one story a man of our world, of 1970s Britain, is summoned by unknown means and sent by the Traveller to a city that wished...
Invisible Women, by Niall Harrison (03/15/12): Aliette de Bodard considers the erasure of women in Sherlock and other contemporary media: Women had a clearly defined place and clearly defined sphere in Victorian society, even though that place was deemed inferior to men. If you were a...
This Book Is Science Fiction, by Niall Harrison (03/14/12): Adam Roberts interrogates himself on the subject of Greg Egan: Antegan: SF is a metaphorical literature, one that aims to reproduce the world without representing it. It is more akin to poetry than it is to science. Prœgan: I honestly...
Sciencefictional in Seattle, by Niall Harrison (03/14/12): As noted in the post below, I was away over the weekend; mostly for day-job-related reasons, but I had a couple of days to myself to socialise -- many thanks to Ted Chiang, L. Timmel Duchamp and Nisi Shawl...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (03/14/12): Apologies for the delayed contents post this week: a case of editor abroad, and then editor jet-lagged. In any case, there was a new issue on Monday as usual, and it included Cory Skerry's story "My Dignity in Scars", Shweta...
Strange Horizons, w/c 5th March, by Rachel Monte (03/12/12): In this week's issue, we had: Robyn Fleming's Dice and D-Pads column, "Phones With Friends""Nightfall in the Scent Garden", a short story by Claire HumphreyCaitlín R. Kiernan's poem, "Atlantis"And reviews of Stephen Baxter's Bronze Summer, by Finn Dempster, Matt Ruff's...
Tiptree Award, by Niall Harrison (03/09/12): This year's James Tiptree Jr Award goes to: The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council (www.tiptree.org) is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2011 Tiptree Award is Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct Press, 2011). Hairston had...
More Hugo ballots, by Niall Harrison (03/09/12): This time from Liz Batty, Aidan Moher, and Joe Sherry....
Enjoying the View, by Niall Harrison (03/08/12): The latest Locus Roundtable discussion looks at the work of Greg Egan: Paul Graham Raven: “Posthuman” implies a transcendence of humanity, certainly, but the whole point of the posthuman as a trope is to reimagine the familiar (namely ourselves) as...
The Exegete, by Niall Harrison (03/08/12): At the LA Review of Books, Rob Latham on The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick: There are, in fact, numerous ways to find a trail through this wilderness of crazed speculation. At one and the same time, the Exegesis is...
Clarke Conversation, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (03/07/12): Nina Allan's thoughts on the importance of the Arthur C Clarke Award, and this year's possible shortlist: What matters most about the Clarke is not who wins, but that it acts as a showcase for what is happening in SF...
Unlimited Female Characters, by Niall Harrison (03/07/12): Rose Lemberg has some thoughts about feminist characters: I want women to dream their literary heroines from a position of strength. Just as we know by now (I hope) that women are not always polite, so we should be able...
Further Adventures in Counting, by Niall Harrison (03/06/12): Renay at ladybusiness on Dreamwidth has completed a hefty analysis of SF/F coverage on blogs. Her spreadsheet can be found here; you probably http://www.sfsignal.com/">recognise some of the blogs she includes. Here's one of her charts: And some gloss: Are there...
Abigail Nussbaum Recommends, by Niall Harrison (03/06/12): Less than a week to go until the Hugo nominations deadline (this Sunday), and Abigail Nussbaum has posted her draft Hugo ballot....
Salvage, by Niall Harrison (03/06/12): Hal Duncan sets himself a challenge: So I've thought for a while that maybe I should turn all that work into some sort of Sentence Writing 101 post for the blog, but of course, I can't exactly use a client's...
Worlds of a Vivid Dreamer, by Niall Harrison (03/05/12): Graham Sleight's latest Yesterday's Tomorrows column for Locus looks at Samuel R. Delany: But, as I say, Dhalgren is the last book from which one might want to extract a ‘‘lesson’’ or a ‘‘moral.’’ The difficulty of the style is,...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (03/05/12): This week: we have Claire Humphrey's story "Nightfall in the Scent Garden", Caitlin R. Kiernan's poem "Atlantis", and Robyn Fleming's latest Dice and D-pads column on "Phones with Friends"; and reviews kicks off with Finn Dempster's look at Bronze Summer...
Strange Horizons, w/c 27th February, by Niall Harrison (03/04/12): In our final issue for February, we had: Vandana Singh's Diffractions column on "Sleepwalking Toward Calamity: The 2011 Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa" A round table on writing climate change fiction with Julie Bertagna, Tobias Buckell, Maggie Gee, Glenda...
Finding Climate SF, by Niall Harrison (03/02/12): Matt Hilliard responds to my own response to Mark Newton's post earlier this week, and offers a more thorough look at the barriers to more widespread climate sf: As always in these genre discussions, there’s a frustrating lack of empirical...
The Wages of Nostalgia, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (03/02/12): L. Timmel Duchamp responds to Benjamin Rosenbaum's post from the other week about sf engaging (or failing to engage) with our technological present: As I say, I can sympathize with this kind of irritation, because it's akin to the irritation...
Utopia in the Age of Climate Change, by Niall Harrison (03/01/12): An essay by Kim Stanley Robinson, from a conference held in Australia in 2010: Therefore the main project of all science fiction — that of imagining future histories — is impossible. Imagining a positive history which gets us to a...
Avram Grumer Recommends, by Niall Harrison (03/01/12): Works to consider for the Best Graphic Story Hugo, at Making Light....
Clarke Conversation, by Niall Harrison (02/29/12): Following up on Monday's post, some other thoughts on this year's possible Clarke shortlist: Ian Sales thinks it will be a year for the literary contenders; David Hebblethwaite is disappointed by the absence of most of the year's mainstream-published sf...
Writing About Writing About Climate Change, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (02/28/12): Mark Charan Newton picks up on this week's issue, and in particular my post yesterday about ecocriticism of sf, and asks a couple of important questions. First of all: I wondered if there was little criticism because there simply isn’t...
That Time Of Year Again, by Niall Harrison (02/28/12): Time, that is, for the Vida Count for 2011; it doesn't look like much has changed. I am (slowly) working on the 2011 SF Count (with some help, although more volunteers would not be unwelcome)....
Strange Horizons, w/c 20th January, by Rachel Monte (02/28/12): In this week's issue, we had: A short story by Brooke Bolander, "Tornado's Siren""Hyphenated American", a poem by Nima KianAnd reviews of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, by Chris Kammerud, Adam Christopher's Empire State, by Indrapramit Das, and Jaine Fenn's...
Writing About Writing About Climate Change, by Niall Harrison (02/27/12): As mentioned in the previous post, this week we have some discussion of writing climate change fiction; and if, as Vandana Singh says in her final comment, it is "increasingly important to write about climate change as passionately and creatively...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (02/27/12): In this week's issue, we have a climate change focus, with Vandana Singh's report from the Durban climate conference, and a round table on writing climate change with Julie Bertagna, Tobias Buckell, Maggie Gee, Glenda Larke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana...
2012 Arthur C Clarke Award Submissions, by Niall Harrison (02/27/12): As has become traditional, the Arthur C Clarke Award has published the full list of works submitted for consideration by publishers, and are running a competition to guess the shortlist (winner to receive the six novels in question). The metric...
Subverting or Subjugated?, by Niall Harrison (02/24/12): Lavie Tidhar continues his series of posts on contemporary sf writers with a look at China Mieville's Embassytown: What disappoints me – that vague sense of unease at the back of my neck, whispering as I read – is that...
The World Is Bare, by Niall Harrison (02/24/12): Kit Whitfield on the first sentence of Nineteen Eighty-Four: With another writer, one might say the language was deceptively simple. With Orwell, the language is vehemently simple, ideologically simple, a declaration of war against obfuscation and half-truth. Language and speech...
Goodbye to Howard, by Niall Harrison (02/24/12): At Ferretbrain, Arthur has a truly epic (by which I mean "longer than 20,000 words") look at the Conan stories. His conclusion: Do I sometimes find my blood racing when I read the Conan stories? Of course I do. But...
Karen Burnham Recommends, by Niall Harrison (02/23/12): Specifically, she recommends Gary K. Wolfe's essay collection Evaporating Genres for the Hugo Best Related Book category: I didn't review Evaporating Genres when I read it, because I read it while on maternity leave and finding time to write, much...
Personhood in Ponyland, by Niall Harrison (02/23/12): Aishwarya Subramanian considers the role of race and language in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: My Little Pony does quite a bit of playing around with language, as is evident from the episode titles, the flood of horse-puns and...
Con or Bust Reminder, by Niall Harrison (02/23/12): The Con or Bust auctions continue until this Sunday (26 February); a reminder of the background here, and feel free to bid for our bundles of young adult novels, epic fantasy novels, and short story collections....
The SF of Smugness, by Niall Harrison (02/22/12): Jonathan McCalmont examines Tim Maughn's story-cycle Paintwork, and reconsiders the history of cyberpunk: As in Phase 1 novels, the protagonists of Phase 2 novels such as Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (2008), William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition (2003) and Spook Country (2007)...
Nebula Awards Nominees, by Niall Harrison (02/22/12): As you have no doubt seen elsewhere by now, this year's Nebula Awards nominees have been announced -- congratulations to everyone on the ballot! When I was making my awards predictions at the start of the year, I punted on...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (02/20/12): In this week's issue we bring you Brooke Bolander's story, "Tornado's Siren", and Nima Kian's poem, "Hyphenated American"; plus Chris Kammerud's review of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and, later in the week, Indrapramit Das on Adam Christopher's debut,...
Strange Horizons, w/c 13th February, by Rachel Monte (02/20/12): In this week's issue, we had: Genevieve Valentine's Intertitles column, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sci-Fi: Espionage and the SpeculativeThe second part of Joy Kennedy-O'Neill's short story, "Aftermath" (first part here)"Tongueless", a poem by Mari NessAnd reviews of the third season of...
Readers' Poll Final Reminder, by Niall Harrison (02/19/12): Our 2011 Readers' Poll closes at the end of the day (PST) -- but there's still time to cast your ballot here....
Something For The Weekend, by Niall Harrison (02/17/12): A long essay by Joel Burges at Post45 on "Loving Mieville's Sentences": From the first to the final novel of the Bas-Lag trilogy, style modernizes and contemporizes in moving from omniscience to free indirection. It is as if in the...
When The Lies Fail, by Niall Harrison (02/17/12): Paul Kincaid writes about suspension of disbelief, and his failure of it in reading Kameron Hurley's God's War. Like some others, although for different reasons, the war was the sticking point: But I found myself asking one simple, fatal question:...
The Wages of Nostalgia, by Niall Harrison (02/17/12): Benjamin Rosenbaum on reading "a story published a while back in one of the print SF mags" whose real year is 1985, not 2511: When you don't know something, you are innocent of it. Once you do know it, though,...
Fuzzy-Wuzzy, by Niall Harrison (02/16/12): Dan Hartland gently dissents from the praise of Lavie Tidhar's Osama: This, however, is where the occasional clumsiness of its prose can come also to characterise its wider project. In the novel’s final denouement, which takes place in a blissfully...
Readers' Poll Reminder, by Niall Harrison (02/16/12): Our 2011 Readers' Poll closes this coming Sunday; cast your ballot here!...
A New Sort of Magazine, by Niall Harrison (02/16/12): Matt Cheney points out that the Pulp Magazine Project has put the first six issues of Amazing Stories online. There's even paper-rustling sound effect as you flip through the digital pages....
On Hatchets, by Niall Harrison (02/15/12): Maureen Kincaid Speller considers the outcome of the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year, and links to a good defense of criticism by the winner, Adam Mars-Jones: Both my parents were lawyers, and you could hold that accident responsible for...
BSFA Short Fiction Discussed, by Niall Harrison (02/15/12): Martin Lewis has run a short story discussion club for the five works nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction. There's an index to the posts here, plus Martin's final ballot here, and the individual story threads are:...
Panel Parity, by Niall Harrison (02/15/12): Paul Cornell has a plan for achieving equality of gender representation on convention panels: If I'm on, at any convention this year, a panel that doesn't have a 50/50 gender split (I'll settle for two out of five), I'll hop...
Jason Sanford Recommends, by Niall Harrison (02/14/12): Another ballot: this time it's Jason Sanford recommending 2011 novels and short fiction for award nomination....
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (02/14/12): With apologies for the delay: in this week's issue we have the second part of Joy Kennedy-O'Neill's "Aftermath" (read part one here), plus Mari Ness' poem "Tongueless" and Genevieve Valentine's latest Intertitles, looking at Tinker Tailor Soldier Sci-Fi". Guria King...
Strange Horizons, w/c 6th February, by Rachel Monte (02/13/12): In this week's issue, we had: The first part of Joy Kennedy-O'Neill's short story, "Aftermath""Tesla's Waltz", a poem by WC RobertsAnd reviews of Elspeth Cooper's Songs of the Earth, by Marina Berlin, Ali Shaw's The Man Who Rained, by Nina...
Con or Bust 2012, by Niall Harrison (02/09/12): Kate Nepveu has announced this year's Con or Bust auction: I am pleased to announce this year's auction to support Con or Bust, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF conventions. Bidding starts Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:01...
Jeff VanderMeer Recommends, by Niall Harrison (02/08/12): Jeff VanderMeer's books of 2011, at Locus online. Given that it includes God's War, The Sacred Band, Osama and Mr Fox, even I have no quibbles....
Rachel Swirsky Recommends, by Niall Harrison (02/08/12): Model awards voter Rachel Swirsky has posted her lists of recommended short stories, novelettes and novellas from 2011, with discussion of each. Nothing from Strange Horizons this year, but lots of good reading from elsewhere....
What I Did At The Weekend, by Niall Harrison (02/07/12): I spent the weekend just gone at the Pontins holiday camp in Prestatyn, North Wales, for the third SFX Weekender. This is an odd, hybrid event, approaching the size of a Worldcon but with only two streams of programme: literary/thematic...
New Vector, by Niall Harrison (02/07/12): The latest issue of Vector is out, and it's partly a women-in-sf issue featuring pieces by Cheryl Morgan (on women writing sf in general), Tony Keen (on Justina Robson) and me (on the Exodus trilogy by Julie Bertagna). See also...
The Judgment of the Tiny Medievalists, by Niall Harrison (02/06/12): Catherynne Valente attempts to explain King Arthur to a five-year-old: Me: *thinks of awesome thing to interest child in England* And also that’s where King Arthur lived! *does mental TA DA* Serenity: Who’s King Arthur? And three things happen. I...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (02/06/12): In this week's issue we have for you the first part of Joy Kennedy-O'Neill's story "Aftermath", W. C. Roberts' poem "Tesla's Waltz", plus reviews of Chronicle, Ali Shaw's The Man Who Rained and, first of all, Marina Berlin's take on...
Strange Horizons, w/c 30th January, by Rachel Monte (02/05/12): In this week's issue we had: John Clute's column, "Scores""The Chastisement of Your Peace", a short story by Tracy Canfield"Ariel", a poem by Erik AmundsenAnd reviews of Vernor Vinge's The Children of the Sky, by Andy Sawyer, Hari Kunzru's Gods...
Teaching Soulless, by Niall Harrison (02/03/12): The Steampunk Scholar reflects on teaching Gail Carriger's novel: Ultimately, the majority of students thoroughly enjoyed the experience of comparing and contrasting Dracula and Soulless. There was one particularly outspoken naysayer, but he admitted disliking the text because Alexia reminded...
The Sins of the Travel Writer, by Niall Harrison (02/03/12): Rushthatspeaks has a superb write-up of Jan Morris' Last Letters From Hav: 'Jan Morris' has, in this book, in her exquisitely careful sendup of exactly how not to deal with the aftermath of WWII, given the most beautiful demonstration I...
The Awards Race Continues, by Niall Harrison (02/02/12): Martin Lewis handicaps the Best Novel shortlists for the BSFA and the Kitschies. Nicholas Whyte compares the Amazon, Goodreads and Librarything rankings of the BSFA Novel nominees....
Revisiting Stories, by Niall Harrison (02/01/12): A couple of SH authors, revisiting stories first published in these pages: Hal Duncan reads his story, "Styx Water and a Sippy Cup." Grady Hendrix regrets his story, "The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu": I wrote “Guiyu” in English...
Time Still Wrinkled, by Niall Harrison (02/01/12): In the New York Times, Pamela Paul revisits Madeleine L'Engle's classic and considers how it helped to break ground: In 1962, when “A Wrinkle in Time,” after 26 rejections, was acquired by John Farrar at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, science...
Changes for the Fiction Department , by Susan Marie Groppi (01/31/12): We're looking to bring new fiction editors into the Strange Horizons team. This might not be much of a surprise, after our announcement in December that Karen Meisner was leaving the fiction department. What might be a surprise, though, is...
Why Does SF Hate Ordinary People?, by Niall Harrison (01/31/12): Martin McGrath asks, with reference to James Lovegrove's Redlaw, Adam Roberts' By Light Alone, and Ahmed Khaled Towfik's Utopia: Perhaps, then, science fiction is just doing what it has always done in reflecting its times. It may be that all...
The Deep Still Burns, by Niall Harrison (01/31/12): Nathaniel Katz revisits Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, and finds it all comes down to the ideas: Despite all that, though, Vinge’s characters, and even his plots, are well overshadowed by his ideas. The excellence of each and every...
Hugo Recommendations, by Niall Harrison (01/30/12): George RR Martin recommends some novels for the Hugo: Leviathan Wakes, Heaven's Shadow, The Wise Man's Fear, The Heroes, The Magician King, The Dragon's Path, and 11/22/63. For a bit of variety, the Dreamwidth community "Writers of Color 50 Books...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (01/30/12): In our last issue of the month, we have Tracy Canfield's story "The Chastisement of Your Peace", and Erik Amundsen's poem, "Ariel"; John Clute takes a look at the Kessel/Kelly anthology Kafkaesque and the Kafkaesque new novel by Matt Ruff...
Strange Horizons, w/c 23rd January, by Rachel Monte (01/29/12): This week's issue had: An article by Ehud Maimon, "Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The City of Haifa in Lavie Tidhar's Stories "FIADSBLTPPUTPWYP", Mark Plummer's latest Paraphernalia column Mike Allen's poem, "Carrington's Ferry" And reviews of Leigh Kennedy's Wind Angels, by...
Sea Hearts, by Niall Harrison (01/27/12): Gary K. Wolfe's Locus review of Margo Lanagan's new novel: This odd but compelling narrative structure, with each successive tale opening up and commenting on earlier ones, gives an almost panoramic sense of passing generations for what is not a...
Osama and Alternate Reality, by Niall Harrison (01/26/12): At SF Signal, John H. Stevens has a thorough two-part look at Lavie Tidhar's Osama, starting with the novel itself and then looking at it in the context of other alternate-reality novels by Joanna Russ and Philip K. Dick: Through...
Lavinia, by Niall Harrison (01/25/12): Shana Worthen posts on Lavinia at Torque Control, as part of an ongoing series of "Future Classics" discussions. Part one looks at voice and identity; part two considers audience. I’m sure other Aeneid-related works are still being produced, if not...
Awards Catch-Up, by Niall Harrison (01/24/12): 1. Announced today: the winner of the William L Crawford Award for first fantasy book is Genevieve Valentine, for Mechanique. Shortlisted were Erin Morgenstern for The Night Circus, Tea Obreht for The Tiger's Wife, Stina Leicht for Of Blood and...
First Sentences, by Niall Harrison (01/24/12): Kit Whitfield has an ongoing series of blog posts in which she deconstructs first sentences. Here she is on Five Children and It, The Haunting of Hill House, and Brave New World: Most obvious is the mimicry: thirty-four storeys merits...
"Jolly Good Yarn", by Niall Harrison (01/23/12): On the occasion of a reissue of The Handmaid's Tale by The Folio Society, Margaret Atwood looks back at the novel: Stories about the future always have a "what-if" premise, and The Handmaid's Tale has several. For instance: if you...
This week ..., by Niall Harrison (01/23/12): Monday is, as ever, new issue time. This week our feature article is Ehud Maimon's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters: The City of Haifa in Lavie Tidhar's Storie", Mark Plummer's Paraphernalia column explains "FIADSBLTPPUTPWYP", we have Mike Allen's poem "Carrington's Ferry",...
Strange Horizons, w/c 16th January, by Rachel Monte (01/22/12): In this week's issue, we had: Alberto Yáñez's short story, "Recognizing Gabe: un cuento de hadas" Tony Grist's poem, "The Lord Charon" And reviews of season 1 of American Horror Story, by Roz Kaveney, Lev A.C. Rosen's All Men of...
The Core, by Niall Harrison (01/20/12): Picking up on a comment by Jonathan McCalmont, jennygadget asks: What would you consider “core genre?” Both in terms of definition and representative titles? (the genre of the book in question is fantasy, but really I'm more curious how people...
Beautiful and Horribly Serious Play, by Niall Harrison (01/19/12): Sofia Samatar has been mulling fantasy and language and the value of literalness after reading Greer Gilman's Cloud & Ashes: What this does is return language to itself. It's a particularly important thing to do, I think, with the material...
Dancing The Other, by Niall Harrison (01/18/12): Social Text has a Periscope feature on Speculative Life, featuring an interview with China Mieville, essays on Cuaron's Children of Men and Speculating Queerer Worlds (among others), and Andrea Hairston's "Disappearing Natives: Notes for Future SF&F Stories": In the Disappearing...
Heroine Chic, by Niall Harrison (01/18/12): At the LA Review of Books, Evie Nagy looks at the collected Miss Fury: But, contrary to common belief, Wonder Woman was not the first female superhero. She was preceded by more than half a year by Miss Fury, who...
What Makes You Think The World’s Ever Been Saved?, by Niall Harrison (01/17/12): Brit Mandelo continues her re-read of the works of Joanna Russ with a two part examination of her 1984 collection Extra(ordinary) People: Discussions of performativity often run the risk of sounding dismissive of the gender/sexuality paradigms that are being discussed...
If Christ Had Big Guns and a Bad Attitude, by Niall Harrison (01/17/12): Lavie Tidhar counters Jonathan McCalmont's review of Red Claw to argue for the merit of Philip Palmer's novels: Yet these are merely technique. What slowly emerges – what fascinates about these novels – are they underlying moral principles at play....
Letting Some Air In, by Niall Harrison (01/16/12): In The Guardian, Patrick Ness considers the new omnibus of Steven Millhauser stories, We Others: There's a doctorate to be written on a certain type of American literary paragraph. Densely packed with hyper-close observation, often containing unindented dialogue, and consuming...
This Week ..., by Niall Harrison (01/16/12): Monday brings a new issue: this week we have Alberto Yáñez's story Recognizing Gabe: un cuento de hadas and Tony Grist's poem "The Lord Charon", while reviews kicks off the week with Roz Kaveney's take on American Horror Show, with...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (01/15/12): Looking back over my reading for the past few years, I realise it's taken on a distinct annual shape. It's not an absolutely strict division, but in general spring is for catching up on award nominees that I missed, summer...
Strange Horizons, w/c 9th January, by Rachel Monte (01/15/12): In this week's issue, we had: Robyn Fleming's Dice and D-Pads column, "Jumping to Beginnings" "In the Cold", a short story by Kelly Jennings Michele Bannister's poem, "Loki, Dynamicist" And reviews of Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three, by Finn Dempster,...
The Awards Race Begins, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (01/14/12): Nisi Shawl has pointed out that I neglected to consider contenders for the Carl Brandon Parallax and Kindred awards in my awards round-up post; I have attempted to correct the oversight here....
Kitschies Nominees, by Niall Harrison (01/13/12): Next up in this year's awards calendar is the new kid on the block: The Kitschies, for "the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works" in three categories; Red Tentacle (Best Novel), Golden Tentacle (Best Debut) and Inky Tentacle (Best...
Hatchet Jobs, by Niall Harrison (01/13/12): As you may have seen, The Omnivore has instituted an award for Hatchet Job of the Year: "It aims to raise the profile of professional critics and to promote honesty and wit in literary journalism." I'm not entirely convinced this...
From Heisenberg to Frank Zappa, by way of Philip K. Dick and Margaret Cavendish, by Niall Harrison (01/12/12): At SF Site, Paul Kincaid reviews Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex: Lucy Sussex is one of the best writers of fantasy and science fiction to emerge from Australia over the last 25 years or so, and...
SFE Update, by Niall Harrison (01/11/12): A progress report from the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: The SFE now contains about 138,500 more words than the launch version -- a whole long novel's worth -- spread over existing entries and more than 300 new ones, while approximately...
Philip K Dick Award Nominees, by Niall Harrison (01/10/12): First out of the gate for this year's awards: The Company Man, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) Deadline, Mira Grant (Orbit) The Other, Matthew Hughes (Underland) A Soldier’s Duty, Jean Johnson (Ace) The Postmortal, Drew Magary (Penguin) After the Apocalypse, Maureen...
An Acquired Taste, by Niall Harrison (01/10/12): At HCN, Peter Watts reviews The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick: To a writer like myself, this stuff is flat-out fascinating: a trove to be mined not just for insights into the creative process of an SF colossus, but also...
Taste Hierarchies and Awards, by Niall Harrison (01/10/12): Riffing off a post by Gregory Benford, Alec Austin writes about taste hierarchies: The tendency of the French upper classes to (for example) prefer classical music over popular music, Bourdieu argued, was a learned social behavior, and whether deployed consciously...
BallotWatch, by Niall Harrison (01/09/12): To encourage people to think widely about their possible Hugo nominations (and other award nominations), when I see people post their ballots online over the next couple of months, I'm going to link to them. To start with: Martin McGrath's...
Readers' Poll Question, by Niall Harrison (01/09/12): We're coming up on our annual Readers' Poll, and are interested in feedback on its format. Specifically, we're interested in feedback on the format of the poll for reviews and columns. Both departments, unlike fiction, poetry or articles, have a...
This week ..., by Niall Harrison (01/09/12): In this week's issue, we have Kelly Jennings' story "In the Cold", Michele Bannister's poem "Loki, Dynamicist", the latest instalment of Robyn Fleming's Dice and D-Pads column, and reviews of Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear and (later in the...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (01/08/12): So, my extended Christmas break is finally over, and I return to work properly tomorrow; and as you would hope, I managed to get through a good few books. Most of them deserve to be written about. I'm going to...
Strange Horizons, w/c 2nd January, by Rachel Monte (01/08/12): In this week's issue, we had: Matthew Cheney's Lexias column on "Kipple" "MonitorBot and the King of Pop", a short story by Jessica Barber Shannon Connor Winward's poem, "Fallen" And a collection of our reviewers did 2011 In Review and...
Aqueduct's Pleasures of 2011, by Niall Harrison (01/07/12): I'm not sure whether it's completely finished, but it at least seems to be in a bit of a lull, so it's time to round up links to the "pleasures of reading, viewing and listening in 2011" series at the...
The Awards Race Begins, by Niall Harrison (01/06/12): Last week, Ursula Le Guin made an excellent post about literary awards and evaluating literary merit in general: Voting is the dangerous but essential tool of democracy. In art, voting is dangerous without being essential. Often it’s not even appropriate....
Reading Egan, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (01/06/12): Discussion continues about the matter of Greg Egan and characterisation. Here's Matt Denault, responding to Karen: But this all comes down to what you're trying to do, I think. If you're trying to situate Egan within the field, then yes,...
Reviewing Reviews, by Niall Harrison (01/06/12): To mark ten years of writing sf reviews, Martin Lewis takes another look at his first review, a piece on James Blish's A Case of Conscience for the SF Site, and goes through it paragraph-by-paragraph: As an atheist interpreting an...
Book of the Year?, by Niall Harrison (01/05/12): China Mieville's Embassytown got more positive mentions than any other novel in our reviewers' overview of 2011; but some people also expressed reservations. Aishwarya Subramanian wrestles with the book in her review: But this is itself is a bit of...
Hugo Nominations Open, by Niall Harrison (01/05/12): Nominations for this year's Hugo Awards are now open. You have until the end of January to join Chicon 7 and gain nomination rights, and until 11 March to actual submit your nominations. I'm attending C7, and will probably post...
Forthcoming Books, by Niall Harrison (01/04/12): As promised yesterday, a short list of books I'm looking forward to in 2012. There is no shortage of such lists already out there, of course, but that's not going to stop me. (I will briefly note that there are...
Planesrunner, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (01/04/12): At the risk of recursion, I note that Cheryl Morgan has reviewed Planesrunner and, among other things, commented on the discussion Phoebe and I were having last week: This brings us to the 64 million dollar question: does the book...
The Foundation SFF Criticism Masterclass 2012, by Niall Harrison (01/04/12): A reminder that the Science Fiction Foundation are currently inviting applications for the 2012 SFF criticism masterclass, deadline 28 February. Full details here; the class leaders this year will be Edward James, Kari Sperring and M. John Harrison, which is...
The International Fantastic, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (01/03/12): Maureen Kincaid Speller has reviewed the Words Without Borders fantasy issue mentioned here last week: "In all, this is mostly an excellent collection of fiction, and yet again, I am reminded of just how much material there is out there,...
2011 Reading Summary, by Niall Harrison (01/03/12): My thoughts on the best books I read in 2011 are in our review of the year feature this week, along with those of many other SH reviewers. For convenience, with links edited to go to my own comments where...
Year's Best, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (01/03/12): Yet another listing of this year's best short fiction, this time from Tangent Online, which subdivides works by length and by star rating (more stars = stronger recommendation). The Strange Horizons works listed are: "Eight" by Corinne Duyvis (no stars)...
Understanding the Popular, by Niall Harrison (01/03/12): As a Christmas break project, Adam Roberts decided to read and blog the top ten all-time best-selling books (according to Wikipedia). The results: 10. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (1937) 9. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown...
Reading Egan, Ctd., by Niall Harrison (01/02/12): Karen Burnham comments on my previous post with a more detailed argument about Greg Egan's approach to characterisation: In the face of the universe, any single individual is a little insignificant. Egan’s characters stand out less than the enormous scientific...
This Week..., by Niall Harrison (01/02/12): Our first issue of 2012 is live! This week we have Jessica Barber's story "MonitorBot and the King of Pop" (our 500th story! Don't forget to share your favourites here), Shannon Connor Winward's poem "Fallen", Matthew Cheney's latest Lexias column...
From Suburbia..., by Niall Harrison (01/02/12): The latest Galactic Suburbia podcast announces the winner and honour list of their new award: for activism and/ or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction in 2011 The winner is Nicola Griffith for the...
Spot the Deliberate Mistake, by Niall Harrison (12/31/11): Cheryl Morgan reviews YA generation starship novel Across the Universe: In fact, if it wasn’t for one fatal passage, I would be wholeheartedly recommending Across the Universe to SF readers. You’d love it, until you got to chapter 63, in...
Reminder: SH500, by Niall Harrison (12/29/11): As Jed mentioned last week, next Monday, with our first issue of 2012, we'll be publishing our 500th short story. What have your favourites been so far? In the comments to Jed's post, people have mentioned Amal El-Mohtar's "And Their...
Reading Egan, by Niall Harrison (12/29/11): Gareth Rees takes on that perennial question, how to judge Greg Egan's fiction: Judged by the standards of the literary novel, Egan’s works fall far short: his prose is dry and impersonal; his characters carry out their function in the...
Have Spacesuit ..., by Niall Harrison (12/28/11): At the LA Review of Books, Rosten Woo reviews Nicholas de Monchaux's Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, a "material history" of the suit: The narrative heart of Spacesuit is the story of Playtex, the women’s undergarment manufacturer. The company, known at the...
The Art of The Freedom Maze, by Niall Harrison (12/28/11): An interesting post at Fantasy Matters dissects the cover of Delia Sherman's new novel, The Freedom Maze: The posture of the girl in the foreground is worth a look. She doesn’t seem like she’s in hot pursuit of the girl...
Planesrunner, by Niall Harrison (12/27/11): Over at the Intergalactic Academy, Phoebe has some reservations about Ian McDonald's Planesrunner: But the more pressing problem was with Everett himself. He never congealed for me into a believable fourteen-year-old boy. First, his emotional responses were all muted. While...
Year's Best, Ctd, by Niall Harrison (12/27/11): Further to last week's summary, some more best-short-sf-of-the-year lists from Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth: Sarah Lee Parker Ian Mond Tansy Rayner Roberts Alisa Krasnostein Some familiar stories there from last week's list, plenty of...
The International Fantastic, by Niall Harrison (12/27/11): Words Without Borders, "the online magazine for international literature", is focusing on the fantastic in its December issue. In this month's main feature we travel into the realm of the fantastic, where routine situations turn surreal and the otherworldly becomes...
Strange Horizons, w/c 19th December, by Niall Harrison (12/26/11): Time for a recap of our final issue of 2011, which featured: The second part of Jennifer Mason-Black's story, "Ash and Dust"; the first part can be found here Robert Frazier's poem "Imagegeography" Genevieve Valentine's latest Intertitles column, looking at...
Boxing Day Reading, by Niall Harrison (12/26/11): As promised, some thoughts on Joan Slonczewski's The Highest Frontier as a complete work. What strikes me about it is how close it comes to being a novel that I would dislike intensely. It takes place exclusively within an enclave...
Apocalypse, by Niall Harrison (12/24/11): Andrew M. Butler on the art of John Martin, currently the focus of an exhibition at the Tate Britain (with a tie-in anthology of speculative stories): It was apparently a journey through the industrialised Black Country which pointed him to...
Technology and War, by Niall Harrison (12/23/11): Two discussions of how changes in the level of technology might alter the course of a war. First, Jaymee Goh, as part of a long post about Scott Westerfeld's Behemoth series, in which World War I happens with more brutal...
Tracking: The WFA and Lovecraft's Racism, by Niall Harrison (12/23/11): In case anyone hasn't already seen it, an important post by Nnedi Okorafor, on the design of the WFA trophy: This is something people of color, women, minorities must deal with more than most when striving to be the greatest...
The Poetry of Joanna Russ, by Niall Harrison (12/22/11): The new issue of Stone Telling is a science fiction poetry special issue; there are poems by, among others, CSE Cooney, Sofia Samatar and Maria Velazquez, a round table in which various of the contributors discuss women and science, and...
New Zines, by Niall Harrison (12/21/11): Two new zines of interest announced in the last couple of weeks. First up is Ad Astra, supported by the University of Kansas and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, which will publish articles, reviews, poetry and short...
Reamde, by Niall Harrison (12/21/11): Over at Asking The Wrong Questions, Abigail has a long, thorough look at Neal Stephenson's latest novel: Which brings us back to that supposedly heartwarming climax in which British spies, Chinese hackers, and American survivalists band together to thwart a...
Cascadia Subduction Zone, by Niall Harrison (12/21/11): Your quarterly reminder that there's a new issue of the Cascadia Subduction Zone available: Essays Ishmael in Love: Anne Finger and the Reclamation of Disability by Josh Lukin My Muse by Mary Meriam Poem History Lesson by Anne Sheldon Grandmother...
Year's Best, by Niall Harrison (12/19/11): 'Tis the season for the announcement of Year's Best short fiction tables of contents (and for all manner of other best-of-the-year lists, but let's ignore those for now). Over the past few weeks we've had the contents for Jonathan Strahan's...
Strange Horizons, w/c 12th December, by Rachel Monte (12/19/11): This week we had: The third installment of Vandana Singh's column, "Diffractions: Science, Emotions, and Culture" (read part one and part two) The first part of Jennifer Mason-Black's short story, "Ash and Dust" "Wendy Darling Has Bad Dreams", a poem...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (12/18/11): I haven't finished The Highest Frontier yet, and don't want to say too much more about it until I do; so this week, a brief and inadequate note about a book I read before I started blogging my reading here....
What are your favorite Strange Horizons stories?, by Jed Hartman (12/12/11): On January 2, 2012, we're going to publish our 500th original piece of fiction. We thought it would be fun, in honor of that impending milestone, to ask y'all to tell us about your favorite SH stories. If you need...
Strange Horizons, w/c 5th December, by Rachel Monte (12/11/11): This week's issue had: Aliya Whiteley's short story, "Penelope Napolitano and the Butterflies" "The Theater for Cloud Repair", a poem by Sandra J. Lindgow And reviews of In Time, by Raz Greenberg, Charles Stross's Rule 34, by Alexandra Pierce, and...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (12/11/11): Following on from last week's post, I've finished Justina Robson's Down to the Bone, which I'd say wraps up Quantum Gravity quite nicely on a thematic level, but feels a little artificial on the narrative level. Some artifice is clearly...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (12/04/11): This is not an original observation, but as a field we're not very good at providing sustained critical readings of book series. Discounting the mega-sellers like George RR Martin, it's fairly common for volume one to receive more coverage than...
Strange Horizons, w/c 28th November, by Rachel Monte (12/04/11): In this week's issue: "Watching the Watches", Nicholas Seeley interviews Sergei Lukyanenko Greg Leunig's poem, "Love in the Quantum Era" And reviews of Robert E. Howard's Conan's Brethren and Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures, by William Mingin, Another Earth,...
Alastair Reynolds Artwork, by Niall Harrison (11/29/11): One of the more exciting prizes we had available during this year's fund drive (or so I thought, at least), was the offer of an original artwork by Alastair Reynolds. He's just posted the painting he's done for the winner...
Strange Horizons, w/c 21st November, by Niall Harrison (11/27/11): In this week's issue: Holli Mintzer's Muppets-and-AI story, "Tomorrow is Waiting" Jenny Rossi's poem "Thumbelina Grows Up" The latest installment of Mark Plummer's Paraphernalia column And reviews of Rob Ziegler's Seed (by Matt Hilliard), Lisa Goldstein's The Uncertain Places (by...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (11/27/11): This week, some thoughts on The Submission by Amy Waldman. 1. Further to earlier discussion, I think I'm comfortable taking the novel as a slightly alternate history. The decision to hold the anonymised 9/11 memorial design competition is the...
Reminder: Logo design competition, by Niall Harrison (11/23/11): The completion of the content checking reminds me that I've been meaning to post a reminder about our logo design competition -- entries due by this Sunday 27 November by 23.59 PST. As a reminder, here are the guidelines copied...
Website content checking complete!, by Niall Harrison (11/23/11): Those of you with long memories may remember that earlier this year we put out a call for volunteers to help with checking the content files for the past ten years of the magazine, in preparation for switching over to...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (11/20/11): Having introduced a new plan, last week, to start occasionally mentioning books I've been looking forward to, this week I have to report that one of them turned into a book I can actually read somewhat sooner than I was...
Strange Horizons, w/c 14th November, by Rachel Monte (11/20/11): This week we had: John Clute's column, "Scores" "Eight", a short story by Corinne Duyvis Gwynne Garfinkle's poem, "Ralph Touchett Awaits Revision" And reviews of Future Media (ed. Rick Wilber), by T.S. Miller, Kameron Hurley's Infidel, by Sarah Frost, and...
Strange Horizons, w/c 7th November, by Rachel Monte (11/14/11): This week we had: Robyn Fleming's Dice and D-Pads column, "Serious Casual Business" "Counting Cracks", a short story by George R. Galuschak Polenth Blake's poem, "Missed Connection: Lizard in the Dog Park" And reviews of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse, by...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (11/13/11): A few weeks missed, for which apologies. I've been working my way through Julie Bertagna's recently-completed trilogy of young adult novels about a drowned world (Exodus, Zenith, Aurora; I'm not aware of an overarching name for the series); having finished...
Strange Horizons, w/c 31st October, by Niall Harrison (11/06/11): This week, we had: "Particle Theory" by Edward Bryant, selected and introduced by Ted Chiang Marci Rae Johnson's poem, "Reconciling Fundamental Forces and Matter" An interview with John Hornor Jacobs by Molly Tanzer Matthew Cheney's latest Lexias column, on Reading...
Stepping Down from Strange Horizons, by Karen Meisner (11/03/11): Hello, This is to announce that at the end of December, I will be stepping down as a fiction editor here. I've been with Strange Horizons for a long time, and remember when it was a little grassroots project, back...
Strange Horizons, w/c 24th October, by Rachel Monte (10/31/11): This week we have: "Cosmic Horror in John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy"" by Orrin Grey Genevieve Valentine's column, "Intertitles: There's No Happy Ending with Me: The Fall" Jeannine Hall Gailey's poem, "Tickling the Dragon" And reviews of Jesse Bullington's The Enterprise...
Strange Horizons, w/c 17th October, by Rachel Monte (10/23/11): This week we have: Shaenon K. Garrity's short story, "Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel" "Strange Oblivion, a poem by David C. Kopaska-Merkel And reviews of Neal Stephenson's Reamde, by Indrapramit Das, Rae Carson's Fire and Thorns, by Katherine...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (10/23/11): A slim volume this week: The Silver Wind by Nina Allan, which collects five stories, two previously unpublished, into something less straightforward than a normal fix-up, but something more than a normal collection. I've written a little about Allan's work...
Strange Horizons, w/c 10th October, by Rachel Monte (10/16/11): This week, we have: The second part of Vandana Singh's column "Diffractions", read the first part here "The Fourth Board", a short story by D J Muir G. O. Clark's poem, "American Poetry 101 Mashup" And reviews of Jane Rogers'...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (10/16/11): This week I’ve been travelling for work-related reasons (first Belgrade, now Brussels), which has meant enough time on planes to finish Infidel, Kameron Hurley’s just-published second novel. Anyone who follows me on Twitter may remember that I got a bit...
Links for the Day, by Niall Harrison (10/10/11): Some things from around the internet today (or, in the case of the awards thing, "recently"). 1. Gollancz have launched their new ebook portal/community site, the SF Gateway, and very impressive it looks too, with plenty of tempting authors and...
Fund Drive Target Reached!, by Niall Harrison (10/10/11): We've done it! Or more accurately: You've done it! A huge, enormous thank you to everyone who's blogged about, tweeted about or donated to this year's fund drive -- we've just hit our target! We'll leave the main fund...
Hours to Go, by Niall Harrison (10/10/11): We have less than five hours left in this year's fund drive, and we've raised 94% of our goal! So here's one more reminder about our prize draw, and about the things people have blogged about us, and the last...
Strange Horizons, w/c 3rd October, by Rachel Monte (10/09/11): This week, we have: David J. Schwartz's short story, "Destiny, with a Blackberry Sauce" "Haruspicy", a poem by Gemma Files And reviews of Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo, by Victoria Hoyle, Chris Adrian's The Great Night, by Paul Kincaid, and...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (10/09/11): As promised, some more thoughts on The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, which as Adrienne Martini notes arrives as the most high-profile of a small wave of fantastical circus books, including Genevieve Valentine's Mechanique, Christopher Rowe's Sandstorm, Kim Lakin-Smith's Cyber-Circus...
Lex Luthor Winner, by Niall Harrison (10/08/11): So we have a winner of the final bonus prize, signed hardback copies of Paul Cornell's Lex Luthor arc for Action Comics, and it is ... Jamie Rubin! Congratulations, and thanks to everyone who's donated this week. We're not done...
Agatha H Winner, by Niall Harrison (10/07/11): The winner of Thursday's bonus prize draw for a copy of Agatha H and the Airship City by Phil and Kaja Foglio is: William Vennell. Congratulations! Here are some more fund drive blog posts from the last little while: Haddayr...
Bonus Draw for Friday Donations, by Niall Harrison (10/07/11): It's the last of our bonus prize draws! Anyone who donates today (by 23.59 PST) will be entered into a draw to win signed copies of the two hardbacks collecting Paul Cornell's Lex Luthor arc for Action Comics: Thanks to...
Creature Court Winner, by Niall Harrison (10/07/11): Slightly later than planned, the winner of Wednesday's bonus prize draw for a copy of Tansy Rayner Roberts' Creature Court trilogy is ... Eve Proper! Congratulations to her. I'll do the draw for Agatha H later today. And there might...
Horizontal Connections: 06 October 2011, by Niall Harrison (10/06/11): Horizontal Connections returns after an extra week, mainly due to fund drive busyness. The two-week schedule should resume now. (Apart from anything else, I'm travelling next week, and won't be able to put a post together.) In the meantime, as...
Bonus Draw for Thursday Donations, by Niall Harrison (10/06/11): Time for another bonus draw; the winner of yesterday's prize will be announced later. Those of you who donate today will be entered into a draw for a copy of Agatha H. and the Airship City by Phil and Kaja...
Fantastic Cities Winner, by Niall Harrison (10/05/11): I've just done the draw for yesterday's bonus prize draw, and copies of Other Cities and An A-Z of the Fantastic City will be winging their way to ... Nick Hubble! Congratulations to him. As serendipity would have it, thanks...
Bonus Draw for Wednesday Donations, by Niall Harrison (10/05/11): That's it! If you haven't donated by now, you've missed your chance to win the speculative cities books; the winner will be announced later today. But never fear, we have another bonus prize for donations today: signed copies of the...
Bonus Draw for Tuesday Donations, by Niall Harrison (10/04/11): For the final week of the fund drive, we've decided to mix things up a little. In addition to entry into the main prize draw, and the free Strange Horizons in 2010 ebook, we're going to be doing a few...
This Week..., by Niall Harrison (10/03/11): Another week, another issue. This time around we have a new story by David J. Schwartz, a new poem by Gemma Files, a fund drive update, and the usual selection of reviews, starting with Victoria Hoyle on Redemption in Indigo...
British Fantasy Award winners 2011, by Niall Harrison (10/03/11): Well, we didn't pick up an award in the end, but congratulations to Black Static who did, and to all the other BFS winners! Here's the full list, as tweeted by Maura McHugh: Best Novel: (the August Derleth Fantasy Award):...
Strange Horizons, w/c 26th September, by Rachel Monte (10/02/11): This week, the fund drive continues, and we also have: Nicholas Pell's interview with David Agranoff, "Vegan Apocalypse" Mark Plummer's article, "Paraphernalia: Beyond the Enchanted Convention to the Enchanted Peter R. Weston Memorial Defibrillator Station" April Grant's poem, "Wallpaper" And...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (10/02/11): A very brief reading update today. Most of this week's reading time has gone on Jo Walton's Farthing, which I'm going to be writing about for Torque Control's Future Classics discussion series, when I have time to actually get my...
Fund Drive Posts #6, by Niall Harrison (10/01/11): We've passed the half-way mark! Thanks to all who have donated so far. Here are some more posts from the past few days: Shweta Narayan: "You might remember that, earlier this year, SH was called on racefail. Both their response...
Fund Drive Posts #5, by Niall Harrison (09/27/11): In the past 24 hours, we've raised about 10% of our fund drive total, and passed the $3000 mark -- thank you! If you haven't donated yet, here are some more people trying to persuade you: Joanne Merriam on her...
Fund Drive Posts #4, by Niall Harrison (09/26/11): This is close to being the highest-donation day of the fund drive so far -- just under $500 received -- so thank you! And here are some more people talking about us: Mary Anne Mohanraj -- who is running her...
Fund Drive Posts #3, by Niall Harrison (09/26/11): We've added 5% to the fund drive total since this morning, which is brilliant -- but there's a long way to go yet. Here are some more people talking about the magazine. Karen Burnham at the Locus Roundtable blog: "We...
New Issue! New Prizes!, by Niall Harrison (09/26/11): This week's issue is up! We have an interview with David Agranoff about deep ecological fiction, April Grant's poem "Wallpaper", Mark Plummer's latest Paraphernalia column, and a review of Christopher Priest's new novel, The Islanders, with reviews of books by...
Fund Drive Posts #2, by Niall Harrison (09/26/11): So we've already had a couple of hundred dollars donated this morning -- thank you! Here are some more people talking about Strange Horizons: Jared at Pornokitsch picks out some of his favourite reviews: Paul Graham Raven on Moxyland, Colin...
Fund Drive Posts #1, by Niall Harrison (09/26/11): To kick things off, a few posts I've spotted over the last week or so: David Soyka at Black Gate: "one value of 'subscribing' is you at least get a tax deduction out of it." Good point! Articles Editor and...
Spreading the Word, by Niall Harrison (09/26/11): We've only got a couple more weeks left in this year's fund drive, and still quite some way to reach our target. So today we're asking for your help: not just donations (although if you've been meaning to donate but...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (09/25/11): In under the wire, again: this week's reading was Fire by Kristin Cashore, a prequel to her first novel, Graceling that retains its predecessor's sentence-level poise and directness -- not to mention a similarly young, female, superpowered protagonist -- but...
Strange Horizons, w/c 19th September, by Rachel Monte (09/25/11): Hey everyone! This week, the fund drive continues, with more prizes added to the list. We also have: Lewis Shiner's short story, "A Box of Thunder" "The Book of Drowned Things", by Adrienne J. Odasso And reviews of Torchwood: Miracle...
New Fund Drive Prizes, by Niall Harrison (09/19/11): The new issue is live, and with it, more new fund drive prizes -- remember, all donors get entered into the draw. Additions to the list this week include artwork by Marge Simon, short story collections by Ursula Pflug and...
Strange Horizons, w/c 12th September, by Rachel Monte (09/18/11): This week, the fund drive continued, with loads of exciting prizes, and also: Grady Hendrix's short story, "Messengers from the Stars Will Come to Help Us Overcome the Obstacles That Hold Us Back From Achieving Our True Potential" "In The...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (09/18/11): Triptych, then. Having finished it earlier this week, I'm settling on the opinion that it is a novel whose parts are of variable quality. Specifically the long middle section that I was just starting last week, in which we inhabit...
Horizontal Connections: 16 September 2011, by Niall Harrison (09/16/11): Two days later than intended, this week, for which apologies; travel got in the way. But here are the links: Coffeeandink has links to further discussion on YesGayYA, perhaps most notably Malinda Lo's stats post; see also Cleolinda's post here...
YesGayYA, by Niall Harrison (09/12/11): Over at Rose Fox's Genreville blog -- which you really should be following, if you're not already; among other things, she has the definitive coverage of the response to Orson Scott Card's Hamlet's Father, kicked off by William Alexander's review...
This Week's Prizes, by Niall Harrison (09/12/11): A new week brings a new batch of prizes for fund drive donors! This week we have for you, among other things, a signed copy of Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin, anthologies of lesbian steampunk and lesbian fantasy, the...
Strange Horizons, w/c 5th September, by Niall Harrison (09/11/11): This week: the fund drive continued, with shiny new prizes for donors, and also: Paul Steven Marino's story "The Fountain and the Shoe" Gemma Files' poem "Lie-Father" Matthew Cheney's latest Lexias column, "World on a Wire" And reviews of HBO's...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (09/11/11): Good intentions are a wonderful thing. Having kicked off last Sunday on the grounds that Sundays are a good time to get in some blogging, this weekend I was in York visiting three-fifths of Eve's Alexandria, and have had very...
New Prizes!, by Niall Harrison (09/05/11): In addition to the regular delights of this week's issue, this year's fund drive rolls on, and we have a new batch of prizes to entice donations, including: original artwork by Alastair Reynolds; Alaya Dawn Johnson's 1920s noir Moonshine in...
Strange Horizons, w/c 29th August, by Niall Harrison (09/04/11): This week saw the kick-off of our 2011 fund drive! We're hoping to raise $8000; you can donate here, and if you do you'll be eligible to win one of our fund drive prizes. Of course, this week we were...
Sunday Reading, by Niall Harrison (09/04/11): Over on Twitter, there is the hashtag #fridayreads, the idea behind which is, unsurprisingly, that you should tweet what you're reading on any given Friday. For the past few weeks, partly as a response to the fact that I seem...
From the Archives, by Niall Harrison (09/03/11): The rewarding aspect of our current project to check old SH content and get it ready for importing to a new version of the website is that quite often I get distracted by the pages I'm meant to be checking...
Editors Abroad, by Niall Harrison (09/02/11): Two bits of news of Strange Horizons staff elsewhere. First up, Articles Editor and sometime SH reviewer Phoebe North has kicked off a new blog today, The Intergalactic Academy, where she and Sean Wills will focus on YA science fiction....
Horizontal Connections: 01 September 2011, by Niall Harrison (08/31/11): Links on the early shift, this week. As ever, we welcome your suggestions for inclusion. If you're not following the LA Review of Books, you probably should be; recent coverage of genre interest includes Neil Easterbrook on Mieville's Embassytown, Brian...
Cat Women of the Moon, by Niall Harrison (08/30/11): A heads-up for those in the UK: today at 11.30 the first part of Cat Women of the Moon, a documentary about sf and sexuality, is on Radio 4: Cat Women of the Moon was a 1950s film that followed...
The 2011 Strange Horizons Fund Drive, by Niall Harrison (08/29/11): But wait! (As they say.) There's more! In addition to our Pat Cadigan focus, this week's issue also sees the kick-off of our 2011 fund drive. Your donations make Strange Horizons possible -- and because all our staff are volunteers,...
Author Focus: Pat Cadigan, by Niall Harrison (08/29/11): In this week's issue we're celebrating the work of Pat Cadigan, whose fiction has been shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula Awards too many times to count, and won the Locus and Clarke Awards multiple times. Tanya Brown takes a...
Strange Horizons, w/c 22nd August, by Niall Harrison (08/28/11): This week, we had: Banks Miller's article, "Ecology and the Post-Apocalypse" Vandana Singh's latest Diffractions, the first part of a series "On Science, Emotions and Culture" (some interesting discussion in the comments) Mike Allan's poem "La Donna del Lago" Reviews...
When is history alternate?, by Niall Harrison (08/24/11): Over the past couple of weeks, I have been interestedly following the reviews of Amy Waldman's The Submission. The Publisher's Weekly thumbnail: Waldman imagines a toxic brew of bigotry in conflict with idealism in this frighteningly plausible and tightly wound...
New Comments, by Niall Harrison (08/22/11): In this week's issue, in addition to the fine content, we're introducing a new comments system, replacing the forums. Thanks to the tireless work of our webmasters, we now have shiny in-line comments on articles, columns, poetry and fiction. So,...
Hugo Reactions Roundup, by Niall Harrison (08/22/11): As I imagine most people reading this will have seen by now, this year's Hugo Award winners were announced over the weekend at Renovation. You can see the full list of winners at Locus here, you can find all the...
Strange Horizons, w/c 15th August, by Rachel Monte (08/21/11): This week we had: John Clute's column, "Scores" "Souvenir", a short story by Genevieve Valentine Cythera's poem, "Come to Venice" And reviews of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud's A life on paper, by Sofia Samatar, Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies, by Niall Harrison, Brent...
Horizontal Connections 18.08.11, by Niall Harrison (08/18/11): Another roundup of links to writing, discussions and news about sf elsewhere online. As ever, we welcome your suggestions for links to include. At the SF Site, Paul Kincaid reviews the Gordon van Gelder-edited climate change anthology Welcome to the...
Strange Horizons, w/c 8th August, by Niall Harrison (08/14/11): This week, we had: The second and concluding part of Liz Argall's "The Rugged Track" (part one here) Charles Cantrell's poem "Zombie Heart" And reviews of James Lovegrove's The Age of Odin, by Rhiannon Lassiter, of Paul Kearney's Corvus by...
City of Pearl, by Niall Harrison (08/12/11): The "Future Classics" book club over at Torque Control continues apace; my posts about Bold as Love and Speed of Dark have already been mentioned here. The book for July (somewhat belatedly) was Karen Traviss' City of Pearl, discussed in...
Strange Horizons, w/c 1st August, by Niall Harrison (08/07/11): In this week's issue: The first part of "The Rugged Track" by Liz Argall -- check back tomorrow for part two! Jamieson Ridenhour's poem "Foxes" The latest installment of Mark Plummer's Paraphernalia column, looking at Rockets in Reno And in...
Horizontal Connections 04.08.11, by Niall Harrison (08/04/11): Time for our fortnightly roundup of links to writing and discussions about sf elsewhere online. The observant among you may notice that I'm not Jonathan, but I'd like to reiterate the point he always made, that I can't read everything,...
Strange Horizons, w/c 25th July, by Rachel Monte (07/31/11): This week we have: Michael Keyton's article, "A Time to Die" "Our Father Who Art", a poem by Jeanie Tomasko And reviews of Catherynne M. Valente's Deathless, by Erin Horáková, a double review of Daniel Abraham's The Dragon's Path, by...
Call for volunteers: website content checking, by Niall Harrison (07/26/11): As close readers of this blog may have realised, one of the ongoing projects this year at Strange Horizons is to update our website design and backend. In the ten years since we launched, the current site has served us...
Strange Horizons, w/c 18th July, by Rachel Monte (07/24/11): This week we have: Robyn Fleming's column, "Dice and D-Pads: Cover Me" "Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot", a short story by Claire Humphrey Sara Polsky's poem, "The Internet in Heaven" And reviews of C.J. Cherryh's...
Horizontal Connections 21.07.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (07/19/11): Here in London, Summer is no more. Instead, we have merely Autumn's preamble. Clouds, rain and the universal sentiment that we have somehow been cheated, deprived and mislead. What good is weather in the 20s if you have to wear...
Strange Horizons, w/c 11th July, by Rachel Monte (07/17/11): This week we have: Matthew Cheney's column, "Lexias: Old, New" Ted Infinity and Nabil Hijazi's short story, "The Peacock "The Mesozoic Tour Guide", a poem by Ken Liu And reviews of Gwyneth Jones's The Universe of Things, by Paul Graham...
Strange Horizons, w/c 4th July, by Rachel Monte (07/10/11): This week we have: Genevieve Valentine's column, "Intertitles: In Praise of the Glorious Mess" "One-Eyed Jack's", a short story by Tracy Canfield Shweta Narayan's poem, "Homeward Bound" And reviews of Eclipse Four (ed. Jonathan Strahan), by Richard Larson, S.L. Grey's...
Horizontal Connections 07.07.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (07/07/11): Fresh from this year's Science Fiction Foundation Masterclass, I bring you... FIRE. Well, either that or links to some of the pieces of genre writing that have grabbed my attention over the past couple of weeks. As ever, If you...
On working toward our mission statement, by Karen Meisner (07/04/11): This week, I read some criticism of a story published in Strange Horizons. Here are the two posts I read: http://tablesaw.dreamwidth.org/480301.html http://moniquill.dreamwidth.org/350055.html The author has responded here: http://csecooney.livejournal.com/322752.html The points have already been well made and well answered, but as...
Locus Award Winners, by Niall Harrison (07/01/11): As I'm sure most people reading this are aware, this year's Locus Award winners were announced last weekend. Congratulations to all the winners! Strange Horizons had one story in the running this year, Theodora Goss's novelette "The Mad Scientist's Daughter"...
British Fantasy Award Nomination, by Niall Harrison (06/27/11): Well, here's a nice way to start the week: BEST MAGAZINE/PERIODICAL Black Static – Andy Cox – TTA Cemetery Dance – Rich Chizmar Murky Depths – Terry Martin – The House Of Murky Depths Shadows and Tall Trees – Michael...
Strange Horizons, w/c 20th June, by Rachel Monte (06/26/11): This week we have: John Clute's column, "Scores" The second part of Shaenon K. Garrity's short story, "The All-Night Truck Stop Polka Band" (read the first part "Plaster Messiahs", a poem by Marge Simon And reviews of K.W. Jeter's Infernal...
Horizontal Connections 23.06.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (06/23/11): A somewhat truncated list this week due partly to my being on the road and away from my RSS feed and partly to the suspicion that, when it comes to links, more may very well be less. As ever, If...
Five for NPR, by Niall Harrison (06/21/11): NPR are running a poll to generate a list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy books; this follows on from polls to find the “best beach books” (2009) and “killer thrillers” (2010), both of which attracted something in...
Strange Horizons, w/c 13th June, by Rachel Monte (06/19/11): This week we have: "Running Away to Bordertown", an interview by Karen Meisner with Holly Black, Ellen Kushner, and Terri Windling Karen Meisner's article, "A Medley of Authors (Re)Visiting One Magical City: Welcome to Bordertown" "Heroes of Tomorrow: Adventures in...
Strange Horizons, w/c 6th June, by Rachel Monte (06/12/11): This week we have: Mark Plummer's column, "Paraphernalia: Dinner With My Friends" "Peerless", a short story by Karen Munro Ann K. Schwader's poem, "Past Human" And reviews of The King of the Elves: the Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick,...
The Theodore Sturgeon Award, by Niall Harrison (06/09/11): We're delighted to hear that one of the stories we published last year, "The Night Train" by Lavie Tidhar, is a finalist for this year's Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of 2010. The full list of finalists:...
Horizontal Connections 09.06.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (06/09/11): The time is at hand for another collection of links to smart things wot get said on the internet. As ever, If you have any suggestions, feedback or think that you may have written something that deserves a wider audience...
New Columnist: Mark Plummer, by Niall Harrison (06/06/11): We have a new columnist this week! Mark Plummer, co-editor of the Hugo-nominated fanzine Banana Wings, will be writing about fans and fanzines, fannishness and fandom, and you can read his first dispatch here: Paraphernalia: Dinner With My Friends. I'm...
Wiscon Discussions, by Niall Harrison (06/06/11): Unfortunately, I didn't get to go to Wiscon this year. Fortunately, quite a lot of the the people who did go have posted notes on the panels they attended, leading to a number of interesting discussions. Such as: "Where is...
Strange Horizons, w/c 30th May, by Rachel Monte (06/05/11): This week we've had a focus on Carol Emshwiller and we have: A discussion of her work between Ursula K. Le Guin, Helen Merrick, Pat Murphy, and Gary K. Wolfe, with Niall Harrison A column on "The Emshwillerians" by Karen...
Discussion Continues, by Niall Harrison (06/03/11): There have been a number of follow-up posts to the discussion I mentioned last weekend about the under-representation of women writers in the British sf market, and in particular about the dramatic imbalance revealed in the recent Guardian poll of...
Strange Horizons, w/c 23rd May, by Rachel Monte (05/29/11): This we have: Robyn Fleming's column, "Dice and D-Pads: Fannish Enthusiasm" "If Alice...", a poem by Alexandra Seidel And we have reviews of Gary K. Wolfe's Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature, by Matthew Cheney, Aliette de Bodard's Harbinger of...
In Search of Data, by Niall Harrison (05/28/11): Earlier this week, occasioned by the launch of the British Library's "Out of This World" science fiction exhibition (about which more another time, hopefully), there was a discussion on the BBC Radio 4 show Woman's Hour about whether, or why,...
Horizontal Connections 26.05.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (05/25/11): The latest in a series of biweekly posts that will bring you some of the latest and greatest online commentary on science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Strange Horizons at Wiscon, by Niall Harrison (05/23/11): Wiscon is fast approaching! Sadly I'm not going to be there this year, but other Strange Horizons staff will be. On Sunday afternoon the fiction editors will be hosting the usual tea party: Location 629 Time Sunday, 15.00-16.30 Strange Horizons'...
Towards a Strange Horizons Reviews Policy: Who is the Audience?, by Abigail Nussbaum (05/23/11): Matt Cheney's review of Gary K. Wolfe's essay collection Evaporating Genres, which appears today, provides a good jumping off point for the relaunch of the this long-dormant series, in which I try to articulate my vision for the Strange Horizons...
Strange Horizons, w/c 16th May, by Rachel Monte (05/22/11): This week we have: A column by Matthew Cheney, "Lexias: Joanna Russ" in memory of the deceased author "The Holder's Black-Haired Daughter", a short story by Kelly Jennings Megan Kurashige's poem, "Mythical Cities of Southwestern Minnesota" And reviews of Karen...
Quote of the Day, by Niall Harrison (05/16/11): Christopher Priest, contra John Mullan and China Mieville, on genre, litfic or sf or otherwise: For China Miéville to cite or create or claim a new genre, an alleged balance against another, an argument for one genre being an argument...
More Short Story Discussion, by Niall Harrison (05/16/11): I don't know, you wait for one short story club to come along, and suddenly they're all over the place. Over at the Locus Roundtable blog, Karen Burnham is kicking off a club to read some of this year's award-nominated...
A New Look, by Niall Harrison (05/15/11): You may have noticed something different about the blog today: we have switched to a full-text view, both on the home page and in our Atom and RSS feeds. Overdue, we know, but here at last: thanks to Webmaster Shane...
Locus Award Finalists, by Niall Harrison (05/15/11): While I'm on the subject of Strange Horizons stories and awards, it would be remiss of me not to note that the Locus Award Finalists have been announced, and that "The Mad Scientist's Daughter" by Theodora Goss (which of course...
Tiptree Book Club on "Beautiful White Bodies", by Niall Harrison (05/15/11): The latest installment of the Tiptree Award Book Club is looking at Alice Sola Kim's 2009 SH story "Beautiful White Bodies". You can read the story here, and the discussion is here: At least one person on the jury that...
Strange Horizons, w/c 9th May, by Rachel Monte (05/14/11): This week we have: Genevieve Valentine's column, "Intertitles: "A Strange and Savage Beauty": Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy" "Young Love on the Run from the Federal Alien Administration New Mexico (1984)", a short story by Grant Stone Lila Garrott's poem, "Telling...
Horizontal Connections 12.05.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (05/11/11): The latest in a series of biweekly posts that will bring you some of the latest and greatest online commentary on science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Strange Horizons, w/c 2nd May, by Rachel Monte (05/07/11): This week, we have: A column by Vandana Singh, "Diffractions: Rewilding the World" "The Thick Night, a short story by Sunny Moraine Jenny Rossi's poem, "What Ray Taught Me" And we have reviews of Project Itoh's Harmony, by Adam Roberts,...
Young Adult Roundup, by Pamela Manasco (05/04/11): A roundup of interesting, intriguing, and enlightening developments in the YA world, including not-so-flattering comments about Neil Gaiman, Hunger Games casting news, and a writing community auction benefiting southern storm relief.
Joanna Russ - A Requiem in Links, by Jonathan McCalmont (05/02/11): A collection of online tributes to the writer, critic and academic Joanna Russ who died this weekend.
Strange Horizons, w/c 25th April, by Rachel Monte (04/30/11): This week we have: An interview with Jonathan L. Howard, "Fascinated by the Grotesque and Macabre", by Molly Tanzer John Clute's column, "Scores" "Tonight I Know", a poem by Shweta Narayan And reviews of the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award...
Joanna Russ, 1937-2011, by Niall Harrison (04/30/11): Sad news yesterday that Joanna Russ has died. There's a brief obituary at Locus Online. We've also been collecting some quotes and links on Twitter, and will be keeping an eye out for other tributes. An enormously important and brilliant writer of both fiction and criticism, she will be missed, but remembered.
And the winner is ..., by Niall Harrison (04/28/11): This year's Arthur C. Clarke Award has gone to Zoo City by Lauren Beukes.
Horizontal Connections 28.04.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (04/27/11): The latest in a series of biweekly posts that will bring you some of the latest and greatest online commentary on science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Kidlit for a Good Cause: Write Hope, by Pamela Manasco (04/23/11): What completely blew my mind was what happened next. Whole critique groups started in the comments, during those bidding wars. Even despite the ruthless bidding, people were rooting for the other to win. Some of the winners shared their prize. Donors upped their game. In one of our auctions the winning bidder offered to make handmade bookmarks for all other bidders, so no one got left out.
Strange Horizons, w/c 18th April, by Rachel Monte (04/22/11): This week we have: Karen Healey's column, "Heroes of Tomorrow: A Diana Wynne Jones Retrospective" "Items Found in a Box Belonging to Jonas Connolly" by Laura E. Price Jo Walton's poem "Serenissima" And reviews of Juliet E. McKenna's Blood in...
Notes on a Shortlist 2011, by Niall Harrison (04/19/11): Thoughts on the Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist.
Strange Horizons, w/c 11th April, by Niall Harrison (04/16/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Horizontal Connections 14.04.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (04/13/11): The latest in a series of biweekly posts that will bring you some of the latest and greatest online commentary on science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Happy Birthday, Carol Emshwiller!, by Niall Harrison (04/12/11): The Carol Emshwiller Project is collecting material in celebration of Emshwiller's 90th birthday.
Strange Horizons, w/c 4th April, by Niall Harrison (04/09/11): The contents of this week's issue.
It's All About Popular, by Pamela Manasco (04/06/11): From fan discussions about plot points, movie casting, and character romances, it's like watching people argue in another language.
Author Focus: Nisi Shawl, by Niall Harrison (04/04/11): Our first Author Focus issue for a while features an interview with, and a column and a story by, Nisi Shawl.
Strange Horizons, w/c 28th March, by Niall Harrison (04/02/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Thank You, Diana Wynne Jones: A Tribute, by JoSelle Vanderhooft (04/01/11): Unlike most of the authors and readers who have honored Diana Wynne Jones this week in moving and eloquent tributes, I came to her work at a relatively late date—both in her career and in my childhood. I discovered her...
Diana Wynne Jones - A Requiem in Links, by Jonathan McCalmont (04/01/11): A collection of links to a few of the pieces posted online in tribute to Diana Wynne Jones.
A Few Good Women: A Call for Reviewers, by Abigail Nussbaum (03/31/11): Ten days ago Niall Harrison posted The SF Count, a look at how genre review venues break down according to gender--how many female authors are reviewed, and how many of the reviewers are women. The numbers, though unsurprising to those...
Horizontal Connections 31.03.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (03/30/11): The latest in a series of biweekly posts that will bring you some of the latest and greatest online commentary on science fiction, fantasy and horror.
My Life in a Shared Universe, by Niall Harrison (03/30/11): This week's issue sees the start of another new column, Robyn Fleming's Dice and D-Pads.
A trip to the archives: Ten years ago this month!, by Susan Marie Groppi (03/28/11): Hello, everyone! I thought it might be nice to use these last-week-of-the-month issues, when there's no new fiction, to take a look at fiction we've published in the past.
Diana Wynne Jones, 1934-2011, by Niall Harrison (03/28/11): As I expect most of those reading this will have seen, Diana Wynne Jones passed away over the weekend.
Strange Horizons, w/c 21st March, by Niall Harrison (03/26/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Odds and Ends, by Niall Harrison (03/26/11): Tiptree, Tiptree, Aurealis, Hugos: awards and other links.
Book Trailers: How, and When, Do They Work?, by Pamela Manasco (03/23/11): Now it seems like every time I research an upcoming YA novel, I will find, somewhere on the author's blog, a link to a book trailer on Youtube. Book trailers have exploded onto the internet, and having one—whether it's a homemade, author-driven project or taken care of by a large publisher—seems like a badge of honor for books.
The SF Count, by Niall Harrison (03/21/11): Over the past couple of weeks, I've been carrying out the count for sf venues. The good news is that we're not more imbalanced than the mainstream venues; that bad news is that we're not really any less imbalanced, either.
Tiptree Award Winner, by Niall Harrison (03/21/11): The winner of this year's James Tiptree Jr Award -- and there's a Strange Horizons story on the Honor List.
Strange Horizons, w/c 14th March, by Niall Harrison (03/18/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Horizontal Connections 17.03.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (03/17/11): The latest in a series of biweekly posts that will bring you some of the latest and greatest online commentary on science fiction, fantasy and horror.
The Speculative Orange 2011, by Niall Harrison (03/16/11): The longlist for the 2011 Orange Prize is out. Is there any speculative fiction on it?
On Winter's Bone and the Fairy Tale Heroine, by Abigail Nussbaum (03/15/11): This week sees the launch of another new column, Genevieve Valentine's Intertitles. I've been an admirer of Genevieve's writing, both her fiction and nonfiction, for a while, and it's a great treat to see her joining the Strange Horizons family....
Strange Horizons, w/c 7th March, by Niall Harrison (03/12/11): The contents of this week's issue.
New Columnist: Vandana Singh, by Niall Harrison (03/07/11): This week's Strange Horizons sees the first installment of Vandana Singh's column, Diffractions.
Another Short Story Club, by Niall Harrison (03/07/11): The Tiptree Book Club has launched with a discussion of "Useless Things" by Maureen McHugh.
Readers' Poll: Final Reminder, by Niall Harrison (03/06/11): You have just a few hours left to vote in the 2010 Readers' Poll, so if you were holding back to debate your choices, debate no longer!...
Strange Horizons, w/c 28th February, by Niall Harrison (03/04/11): The contents of this week's magazine -- and don't forget to vote in the Readers' Poll, which closes on Sunday.
The Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist, by Niall Harrison (03/04/11): This year's shortlist: is it any good?
Con or Bust, by Niall Harrison (03/04/11): Bid for books (and many other things) in the Con or Bust auction.
Horizontal Connections 03.03.11, by Jonathan McCalmont (03/03/11): This is the first in a series of biweekly posts that will bring you some of the latest and greatest online commentary on science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Morality in Young Adult Dystopias, by Pamela Manasco (03/02/11): Whether in Huxley or Orwell or Collins, I believe that the most pervasive moral in dystopian fiction—young adult or adult—is the importance of freedom.
New Faces, by Niall Harrison (02/28/11): New staff at Strange Horizons, and on the blog.
Bold as Love, by Niall Harrison (02/26/11): Links to a discussion of Gwyneth Jones' 2001 novel.
Strange Horizons, w/c 21st February, by Niall Harrison (02/26/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Quote of the Day, by Niall Harrison (02/23/11): Alastair Reynolds on hard sf.
Readers' Poll, by Niall Harrison (02/21/11): The Strange Horizons 2010 Readers' Poll is now open!
Strange Horizons, w/c 14th February, by Niall Harrison (02/18/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Deadlines, by Niall Harrison (02/16/11): Deadlines for applications for the Clarion West Writers Workshop and the Science Fiction Foundation Masterclass in sf criticism are rapidly approaching.
Strange Horizons, w/c 7th February, by Niall Harrison (02/11/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Strange Horizons, w/c 31 January, by Niall Harrison (02/04/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Reading Utopia, by Niall Harrison (02/03/11): The start of a project.
Recommended Reading, by Niall Harrison (02/03/11): Strange Horizons stories on this year's Locus Recommended Reading List.
Quote of the Day, by Niall Harrison (02/02/11): Theodora Goss on mythpunk.
amimythpunkornot.com, by Niall Harrison (01/31/11): So which works are actually mythpunk?
Strange Horizons, w/c 24 January, by Niall Harrison (01/28/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Quote of the Day, by Niall Harrison (01/27/11): Kim Stanley Robinson on infodumping.
Mythpunk, by Niall Harrison (01/25/11): What does mythpunk mean to you?
Strange Horizons, w/c 17 January, by Niall Harrison (01/21/11): The contents of this week's issue.
Towards a Strange Horizons Reviews Policy: What to Review, by Abigail Nussbaum (01/16/11): Strange Horizons publishes three reviews every week. That's at least a dozen reviews every month. More than a hundred and fifty a year. This, as far as I can tell, makes Strange Horizons the most prolific speculative fiction reviewing organ...
Strange Horizons, w/c 10 January, by Niall Harrison (01/14/11): The contents of this week's issue.
When in doubt, list, by Niall Harrison (01/12/11): Tor.com are running a poll to determine "the best science fiction and fantasy novels of the first decade of the 21st century!"
Towards a Strange Horizons Review Policy: An Introduction, by Abigail Nussbaum (01/08/11): My name is Abigail Nussbaum, and I've been Strange Horizons's reviews editor for the last two months. Before that I'd been a blogger (at Asking the Wrong Questions) and a reviewer (for Strange Horizons and other sources) for more than...
Strange Horizons, w/c 3 January, by Niall Harrison (01/07/11): The contents of this week's issue.
SFS, CSZ, and Other Acronyms, by Niall Harrison (01/06/11): Getting your sf criticism fix electronically.
Year's Best selections, by Niall Harrison (01/04/11): Strange Horizons stories picked up for Year's Best volumes, and a little bit of number crunching.
Read Naomi Mitchison, by Niall Harrison (01/04/11): News of reprints from a Scottish publisher.
And So It Begins, by Niall Harrison (01/03/11): Welcome to the Strange Horizons blog!
The Conclusion! , by Rachel Monte (11/07/10): Hi everyone, That's it for the 2010 Strange Horizons Fund Drive. It's been wonderful to see how much Strange Horizons means to everyone. A last minute flurry of donations brought us much closer to our fund drive goal, even if...
A penultimate post!, by Rachel Monte (11/07/10): The response in the past week has been fantastic to see, nearly doubling our donations so far-- I'm assuming you guys were as excited by the World Fantasy Award as we were! In any case, it's amazing to know that...
The World Fantasy Awards, and a belated update on the fund drive, by Rachel Monte (10/31/10): Hi everybody, Sorry that we kind've disappeared for a while there! But we return with some very exciting news-- huge congratulations are in order for our editor-in-chief, Susan, who won a World Fantasy Award for her work at Strange Horizons!...
Competition number 2!, by Rachel Monte (09/25/10): The promotional competition for The Way of Kings has now closed, and the winner notified! Thank you to everyone who participated, it was very much appreciated, and you are all wonderful people. Now it's time for the second promotional competition....
Week 1: promotion competition! prizes to be won!, by Rachel Monte (09/14/10): This evening marks the first full week of the fund drive, so it's time for a little friendly competition... So far, we've raised over $1500 of our target $7000, which leaves just $5500 left to achieve. As always, if you...
Strange Horizons readings and events in September!, by Rachel Monte (09/10/10): There are a series of Strange Horizons readings and other events coming up this month, and if you're in the area-- or able to get to the area-- then I definitely recommend that you drop by! Our first reading was...
Strange Horizons reading TODAY in Washington!, by Rachel Monte (09/08/10): Just a quick note for all you Strange Horizons fans in Washington, DC-- there will be a Strange Horizons reading at the Library of Congress today, as part of our fund drive. The reading is part of the Library's "What...
Welcome to the 2010 Strange Horizons Fund Drive!, by Rachel Monte (09/06/10): Welcome to the 2010 fund drive! This September marks not only the beginning of our annual fund drive, but the tenth anniversary of Strange Horizons. This month, we celebrate ten years of publishing stories written by authors both new and...
The Thrilling Conclusion!, by Susan Marie Groppi (09/06/09): As someone has just noted in the comments on a previous entry, we did kind of disappear for a while at the end here. The explanation isn't nearly interesting enough to be worth taking your time, so instead I hope...
Week 3 Blogger Prize: Jay Lake Flash Fiction!, by Susan Marie Groppi (08/18/09): Oh yes, we're still going with the fund drive (see previous post for more explanation) and we're still offering prizes to people who blog about it. This week's prize: Jay Lake will write an original piece of flash fiction, custom-written...
The fund drive and our annual budget., by Susan Marie Groppi (08/18/09): From the very beginning, we've always tried to be very transparent about our finances. If we're asking for your money, we should be up-front with you about where it goes, right? Given our extraordinary success with this month's fund drive,...
So, about that fund drive goal., by Susan Marie Groppi (08/17/09): Seriously, people, something crazy happened on Friday. John Scalzi said that he and his wife would match up to $500 in donations, and before the day was over, we'd raised more than ten thousand dollars. Ten thousand dollars! And the...
John Scalzi is matching donations!, by Susan Marie Groppi (08/14/09): The lovely and talented (and multiple-Hugo-winning) John Scalzi has made an incredibly generous offer for the Strange Horizons fund drive: John and his wife Kristine are matching any donations recieved today (Friday, 14 August), up to a cap of $500....
We have a winner! Two, actually., by Susan Marie Groppi (08/11/09): As previously mentioned, we're giving some shiny prizes out to bloggers who help publicize this month's fund drive. The blogger prize for the first week of the fund drive, an advance copy of Cory Doctorow's new novel Makers, goes to...
Week 2 Blogger Prize: Small Beer Press Package, by Susan Marie Groppi (08/10/09): Entering the second week of the Strange Horizons fund drive, we have a new blogger prize! (I'll be announcing the winners of the first week's prize soon.) This week, if you blog about the Strange Horizons fund drive, you might...
Love for Twitter, too!, by Susan Marie Groppi (08/05/09): So we're offering shiny prizes for people who help out by blogging about our fund drive. But we love Twitter too! And if you're helping us out by pointing people to the fund drive through Twitter, we have prizes for...
Blogger Incentive Prize: Advance Copy of Makers, by Susan Marie Groppi (08/05/09): During these fund drive, we (of course) want you to donate. But we also want you to help us out with publicity! We're more likely to succeed if more people know what we're doing. We would really appreciate it if...
Welcome to the 2009 Strange Horizons Fund Drive!, by Susan Marie Groppi (08/02/09): When Strange Horizons began publishing in September 2000, we were experimenting with a new vision for a speculative fiction magazine. We wanted to be a magazine that encouraged and supported new writers, a home for a new generation of science...