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6 April 2015

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FICTION: Noise Pollution, by Alison Wilgus

But sometimes it's three or four things. Sometimes a punk-ass kid wants to haggle with you over an unopened ten-pack of Type Two BASF Chrome Maximas and you're on the phone with your goddamn choir director and your walkman runs down while both your earbuds are out. And you don't notice right away. And then the Noise comes swooping down on you like a summer storm, and you've got problems a whole truckload of responsibility batteries aren't gonna fish you out of.

FICTION: Podcast: Noise Pollution, by Alison Wilgus, read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Alison Wilgus's "Noise Pollution."

POETRY: Ekphrastic 25/The Fox Woman, by Jenn Grunigen

A fox reads poetry / licks words till they stick to her tongue

COLUMN: Intertitles: Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong and the Hollywood Problem, by Genevieve Valentine

In fact, non-whiteness is so often coded as the Other that it becomes subtly reinforced as a speculative element; a person of color appearing at all begins to suggest something supernatural—both within the text, and as evidence that a person of color made it in front of the camera at all.

EDITORIAL: The Puppy Hugos, by Niall Harrison

For those who have not seen or heard the news, this year’s Hugo nominees are dominated by a voting campaign led by Brad Torgersen and Vox Day.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Pretty Deadly: Vol 1 by Kelly Sue Deconnick, Emma Rios, Jordie Bellaire and Clayton Cowles, reviewed by Phoebe Salzman-Cohen
Wednesday: Escape from Baghdad by Saad Z. Hossain, reviewed by T. S. Miller
Friday: Navigatio by Patrick Holland, reviewed by Octavia Cade


30 March 2015

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ARTICLE: The 2014 SF Count, by Niall Harrison

Welcome to the fifth year of Strange Horizons' "SF count" of representation in reviewing.

POETRY: Magpie Wings, by Jaymee Goh

When electromagnetic winds blow, / she lets a peony fly

COLUMN: Matrilines: The Woman Who Made Fantasy: Katherine Kurtz, by Kari Sperring

We are writing our history, shaping our genre to our cultural norms of value and hierarchy and status. And we are leaving out the women.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum
Wednesday: Darknet by Matthew Mather, reviewed by Redfern Jon Barrett
Friday: Kill Marguerite by Megan Milks, reviewed by Subashini Navaratnam


23 March 2015

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ARTICLE: The Strange Horizons Book Club: Red Shift by Alan Garner, by Maureen Kincaid Speller, Ethan Robinson, and Aishwarya Subramanian

"Maureen's point that this is Garner's first attempt to write about sex directly intrigues me because it seems so true to me, and yet—as Maureen immediately points out—the novel's way of being direct is to be so indirect as to make sex (among other things) almost invisible."

POETRY: Endurance Is Not Bravery/Do Not Declare Love by Staring, by Elizabeth R. McClellan

It was in their tin like ballet in my paper.

POETRY: Podcast: March Poetry, by John W. Sexton, Rose Lemberg, Liz Bourke, and Elizabeth R. McClellan, read by Antonio Urias, Rose Lemberg, Liz Bourke, and Elizabeth R. McClellan

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

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, reviewed by Nina Allan
Wednesday: Glimmerglass by Marly Youmans, reviewed by Tom Atherton
Friday: Songs for Ophelia by Theodora Goss, reviewed by Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman


16 March 2015

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FICTION: City of Salt, by Arkady Martine

The city of salt is a trap. In the daylight, it reflects the desert sky so brightly it blinds travelers. At night it is worse: at night it reflects travelers back upon themselves.

FICTION: Podcast: City of Salt, by Arkady Martine, read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Arkady Martine's "City of Salt."

POETRY: Laying Claim, by Liz Bourke

What we take was ours always. / What we erase was never there.

COLUMN: Movements: Taking Stock: Encouragement and the Antidote to Toxicity, by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

These days, I find myself looking back and taking stock of the road I chose to travel when I decided to embrace science fiction.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: The Angel of Losses by Stephanie Feldman, reviewed by Alix E Harrow
Wednesday: The Martian by Andy Weir, reviewed by Mark Granger
Friday: The Apex Book of World SF 3 edited by Lavie Tidhar, reviewed by Maureen Kincaid Speller


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