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Thank you to everyone who donated and helped to spread the word about the fund drive -- we ended up with our best day of the fund drive so far, and now have just another $250 to raise before we publish our next piece of bonus content, the second half of Ken Liu's "Good Hunting." You can catch up with part one here, and donate here.

But before we get there, here's some other reading for a Sunday: have you ever wondered what the most-read stories first published by SH are? We don't have an absolute answer to this, since we currently use Google Analytics, and that's only been installed for about five years, so this undercounts the readership of earlier work. But in that time, these are the stories that have had the most hits. It's a top eight, because we've got eight days to go in the fund drive. Are your favourites in here?

8. "Middle Aged Weirdo in a Cadillac" by George R. Galuschak (2010). One of the more unsettling stories we've published, perhaps.

7. "The Women of Our Occupation" by Kameron Hurley (2006). Reprinted in the Hartwell/Cramer Year's Best SF.

6. "The House Beyond Your Sky" by Benjamin Rosenbaum (2006). Hugo, Sturgeon and BSFA Award finalist, reprinted in three Year's Best volumes.

5. "The Spider in You" by Sean E. Markey (2009). Markey's first pro sale!

4. "Dead. Nude. Girls." by Lori Selke (2007). One hopes that everyone brought to this page by Google stayed to read the story.

3. "The Mad Scientist's Daughter" by Theodora Goss (2010). Locus Award finalist.

2. "Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs" by Leonard Richardson (2009). The definitive infernokrusher story.

1. "The Secret Number" by Igor Teper (2000). Comfortably ahead of the pack -- probably not hurt by the fact that it's been made into a short film directed by Colin Levy.



Niall Harrison is an independent critic based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is a former editor of Strange Horizons, and his writing has also appeared in The New York Review of Science FictionFoundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books and others. He has been a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a Guest of Honor at the 2023 British National Science Fiction Convention. His collection All These Worlds: Reviews and Essays is available from Briardene Books.
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