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13 May 2013

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FICTION: Hiding on the Red Sands of Mars (Part 1 of 2), by Anaea Lay

"While we were on our way, when Mars was still a tiny ball in the distance, I plucked it out of the sky and rolled it between my hands to warm it up for us. Just like I do for you when you get cold."

FICTION: Podcast: Hiding on the Red Sands of Mars, by Anaea Lay read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Julia Rios presents Anaea Lay's "Hiding on the Red Sands of Mars."

POETRY: the houses of girl-ghosts, by Cassandra de Alba

altars everywhere: pyrite, half-melted candles, music boxes / missingteeth.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Utopia, Season 1, reviewed by Matthew Jones
Wednesday: Zenn Scarlett by Christian Schoon, reviewed by Foz Meadows
Friday: Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, reviewed by Gabriel Murray


6 May 2013

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FICTION: Hear the Enemy, My Daughter, by Kenneth Schneyer

Now Kesi is four and does not mention him at all. She remembers him; when I point to his picture, she tells me who Jabari is. But she does not begin conversation about him. She does not ask when he will return. She does not ask what it means to die.

FICTION: Podcast: Hear the Enemy, My Daughter, by Kenneth Schneyer read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Kenneth Schneyer's "Hear the Enemy, My Daughter."

POETRY: Book of Vole (Excerpts), by Jane Tolmie and Perry Rath

Literature is open to everybody, / even pests.

COLUMN: Movements: So what do you think of my story where I made use of another person’s culture?, by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

I’ve recently spent a lot of time listening to conversations and engaging in discussions about, among other things, non-western SF and how SF is so white.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Adam Robots by Adam Roberts, reviewed by Andy Sawyer
Wednesday: Necessary Ill by Deb Taber, reviewed by Maria Velazquez
Friday: The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke, reviewed by Matt Hilliard


29 April 2013

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FICTION: Lucy Sussex and "My Lady Tongue", by Tansy Rayner Roberts

First, I discovered the genres of science fiction and fantasy.  Then, maybe a year or two later, I discovered that Australians wrote it too.

FICTION: My Lady Tongue, by Lucy Sussex

I was minding my own business, thinking of Honey, but cat curious I followed the groups of womyn drifting towards the clamour.  It was only when I was in the main square that I realised the offence was mine.  Ah well, I’d brazen it out—I’m nothing if not brazen.

FICTION: Podcast: My Lady Tongue, by Lucy Sussex, read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Lucy Sussex's "My Lady Tongue."

POETRY: That Sonnet Is a Fragment (Anagrammatic) of Constellation, by Sophie Mayer

walls fall, nightmare / papier maché melts to let in something stranger

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: The 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist, Part 1, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum
Wednesday: The 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist, Part 2, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum
Friday: No Return by Zachary Jernigan, reviewed by Martin Lewis


22 April 2013

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ARTICLE: Noticing Language: An Interview with Rose Lemberg, by Julia Rios

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

ARTICLE: The 2012 SF Count, by Niall Harrison

We surveyed reviews coverage in 14 SF magazines and journals published in the US and the UK: Analog; Asimov's; Cascadia Subduction Zone; F&SF; Foundation; Interzone; Locus; The New York Review of Science Fiction; The SF Site; Science Fiction Studies; SFX; Strange Horizons; Tor.com; and Vector.

COLUMN: Loving the Alien: David Bowie's History of Science Fiction Film, by Genevieve Valentine

In David Bowie's most recent music video for "The Stars Are Out Tonight," directed by Floria Sigismondi, he and Tilda Swinton play outwardly content suburban marrieds whose darker sides emerge in the fantastical faces of their rock-star mirror-selves, undergoing a mutation from the conventional to the alien, and confronting the transformative trap (and trappings) of fame.

POETRY: Three Visions Seen from Upside-Down, by Alexandra Seidel

But she has one Nourn eye / and it does never sleep

POETRY: Podcast: April Poetry, by Jenn Grunigen, Bryan D. Dietrich, Robert Frazier and Alexandra Seidel, with Ciro Faienza and Julia Rios as additional readers

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

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Short Fiction Snapshot #2: "Boat in Shadows, Crossing" by Tori Truslow, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum
Wednesday: Two Views: The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories by Kit Reed, reviewed by Paul Kincaid and Chris Kammerud
Friday: Queen of Nowhere by Jaine Fenn, reviewed by Liz Bourke


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