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Captain’s Lay Back

By: Jeané D. Ridges

I am minding my own flight path

Addendum to the Martian Social Studies Textbook, 5th Ed.

By: Maya Wristen

One of the most publicized elements of the project was its flagship’s all-female crew

Podcast: 'The Orchard Village Catalog'

By: Parker Peevyhouse
Podcast read by: Michael Ireland

In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland reads Parker Peevyhouse's 'The Orchard Village Catalog'. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠

Monday: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings

By: Roseanna Pendlebury

Wednesday: Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman

By: Rachel Cordasco

Friday: The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson

By: Shannon Fay

Recently @ Samovar

27 October 2025
28 July 2025
28 April 2025

Recent Comments

Strange Horizons - SH@25 Special Episode: A 2025 Hugo Awards Primer By Kat Kourbeti, By Romie Stott on Nominating for the 2025 Hugo Awards? Here is your Strange Horizons primer.
2152 – Strange Horizons special issue focused on SF&F in Southeast Asia (29 Aug 2022) – TimeSpace Warps on Song
Award Eligibility (2020) - S. Qiouyi Lu on Mazes of Power by Juliette Wade
Black Gate » Articles » Adventure in the Final Days of Civilization in the British Isles: The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey on The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey
BSFA Award Shortlist – Wondrous Writing on These Constellations Will Be Yours
Eligibility in 2020 – Aphotic Ink on Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Short Fiction Round Up
Paul Jessup’s October Short Story Roundup – Vernacular Books on A Layer of Catherines
Dear Tolkien Fans: Black People Exist | The Public Medievalist on The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
RESULTS: The 2020 Ignyte Awards – FIYAH on A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century
“The Present Only Toucheth Thee” reviews | Kathleen Jennings on Podcast: The Present Only Toucheth Thee

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Indigenous Author Submissions
Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift
Captain’s Lay Back
The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson
I Wish You Died Laughing
Inventory
Addendum to the Martian Social Studies Textbook, 5th Ed.
Stephen King's Super-Duper Magical Negroes
Flatland, Flatterland, Spaceland: An education in three books
Palimpsest

Captain’s Lay Back

By: Jeané D. Ridges

I am minding my own flight path

Addendum to the Martian Social Studies Textbook, 5th Ed.

By: Maya Wristen

One of the most publicized elements of the project was its flagship’s all-female crew

Podcast: 'The Orchard Village Catalog'

By: Parker Peevyhouse
Podcast read by: Michael Ireland

In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland reads Parker Peevyhouse's 'The Orchard Village Catalog'. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠

Monday: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings

By: Roseanna Pendlebury

Wednesday: Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman

By: Rachel Cordasco

Friday: The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson

By: Shannon Fay

Recent Podcasts

Podcast: 'The Orchard Village Catalog'
Critical Friends Episode 18: On Fantasy and History
Ageism and Ableism at Conventions (Writing While Disabled S2E5A)
Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17)
Podcast: The Spindle of Necessity
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Velociraptor Space Army (S2E4 Special Episode)
A Masterclass in Writing (and Finding Love) with Tim Melody Pratt (SH@25 Episode 16)
Podcast: City Grown From Seed

Recent Comments

Strange Horizons - SH@25 Special Episode: A 2025 Hugo Awards Primer By Kat Kourbeti, By Romie Stott on Nominating for the 2025 Hugo Awards? Here is your Strange Horizons primer.
2152 – Strange Horizons special issue focused on SF&F in Southeast Asia (29 Aug 2022) – TimeSpace Warps on Song
Award Eligibility (2020) - S. Qiouyi Lu on Mazes of Power by Juliette Wade
Black Gate » Articles » Adventure in the Final Days of Civilization in the British Isles: The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey on The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey
BSFA Award Shortlist – Wondrous Writing on These Constellations Will Be Yours
Eligibility in 2020 – Aphotic Ink on Short Fiction Treasures: Quarterly Short Fiction Round Up
Paul Jessup’s October Short Story Roundup – Vernacular Books on A Layer of Catherines
Dear Tolkien Fans: Black People Exist | The Public Medievalist on The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
RESULTS: The 2020 Ignyte Awards – FIYAH on A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century
“The Present Only Toucheth Thee” reviews | Kathleen Jennings on Podcast: The Present Only Toucheth Thee

Issue 1 Dec 2025

I Wish You Died Laughing

By: Lio Abendan

Excerpt From the Memoirs of a Saint

Thalassophile After Visiting Exoplanet TOI 733 b

By: Colleen S. Harris

Azimuth, Editorials

For Your Consideration: Strange Horizons 2025 Award Eligibility

By: the Strange Horizons staff

Critical Friends, Non-Fiction, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 18: On Fantasy and History

By: Dan Hartland
By: Nick Hubble
By: Cameron Miguel

Monday: Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp

By: William Shaw

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Wednesday: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

By: David Lewis

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Friday: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

By: Nileena Sunil

Issue 24 Nov 2025

A Song from Kulara

By: Jayasri Sridhar

Strands of Feelings

By: A. A. Ademola

Articles, Non-Fiction

Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence

By: Tanvir Ahmed

Articles, Non-Fiction

Old Enough to Become the Villain: Contemporary Narratives Around Growing Up

Columns, Non-Fiction

Stories From The Radio: The Revolt of the Worms

By: Kuzhali Manickavel

Podcasts, Writing While Disabled

Ageism and Ableism at Conventions (Writing While Disabled S2E5A)

By: Kate Johnston
By: Kristy Anne Cox

Monday: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

By: Nick Hubble

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Wednesday: A Granite Silence by Nina Allan

By: David Hebblethwaite

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Friday: Talamasca: The Secret Order

Issue 17 Nov 2025

Mrs. Magalina Hoopensteimer Wallenheimer Hogan Bogan’s Wedding Toast

By: Jessy Randall

The Face Stealer Tells Me What Emptiness Feels Like

By: Sean Glatch

Podcasts, SH@25

Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17)

By: Kat Kourbeti
By: R.B. Lemberg

Monday: The Curators by Maggie Nye

By: Roy Salzman-Cohen

,

Wednesday: Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago

By: Shannon Fay

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Friday: We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris

By: Ian J. Simpson

Issue 10 Nov 2025

The Patience of the Equator

By: Brishbhanu Baruah

618 Days in Longsleep

By: Mahaila Smith

Podcast: The Spindle of Necessity

By: B. Pladek
Podcast read by: Arden Fitzroy

Monday: Colourfields by Paul Kincaid

By: Shinjini Dey

,

Wednesday: Making History by K. J. Parker

By: Cameron Miguel

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Friday: Esperance by Adam Oyebanji

By: Eric Hendel

Issue 3 Nov 2025

By: Melissa A Watkins

By: Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi

sijo from a spaceship escaping a dying planet

By: Annie Bolger

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully

By: Dan Hartland
By: Paul March-Russell
By: Jacqueline Nyathi

Monday: Eat the Ones you Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

By: Nileena Sunil

,

Wednesday: The Demon by Victory Witherkeigh

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Friday: Field Of Frights by Christina Hagmann

By: Racheal Chie

Issue 20 Oct 2025

ERROR 404: Expiation Not Found

By: Eleanor Ball

Bullet Time at the Kink Party

Podcasts, SH@25

A Masterclass in Writing (and Finding Love) with Tim Melody Pratt (SH@25 Episode 16)

By: Tim Pratt
By: Kat Kourbeti

Podcasts, Writing While Disabled

Velociraptor Space Army (S2E4 Special Episode)

By: Kristy Anne Cox
By: Kate Johnston

Monday: The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq

By: Kyle R. Garton

,

Wednesday: Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith

By: Vivian Wagner

,

Friday: Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce

By: Tristan Beiter

Issue 13 Oct 2025

The Orchard Village Catalog

By: Parker Peevyhouse

Ogress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!

By: Bree Wernicke

Podcast: City Grown From Seed

By: Diana Dima
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie

Monday: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken

By: Akankshya Abismruta

,

Wednesday: Inner Space by Jakub Szamalek, translated by Kasia Bedford

By: Dawn Macdonald

,

Friday: Blood of the Old Kings (The Bleeding Empire Volume 1) by Sung-il Kim, translated by Anton Hur

By: Rachel Cordasco

Issue 6 Oct 2025

My Love Wails in the Mending

Welcome New Fiction Editor - Joyce Wolf Chng!

Strange Horizons

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth

By: Dan Hartland
By: Redfern Jon Barrett
By: Nileena Sunil

Monday: When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift

By: Paul March-Russell

,

Wednesday: The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott

By: Electra Pritchett

,

Friday: It’s Not a Cult by Joey Batey

By: Hana Carolina

Issue 29 Sep 2025

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

By: Maria Haskins

Jorinde Remembers

By: Anne E. G. Nydam

Love’s Not Time’s Fool

By: Jenise Aminoff

Behind the Scenes at Strange Horizons

By: the Strange Horizons staff

Podcasts, SH@25

Celebrating 25 Years with The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective

By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Michael Ireland
By: Gautam Bhatia
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
By: Romie Stott
By: Hebe Stanton

Monday: Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman

By: Rachel Cordasco

,

Wednesday: Contra Amatores Mundi: A Gothic Fantasy by Graham Thomas Wilcox

By: Matt Holder

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Friday: The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch

By: Cameron Miguel

Issue 22 Sep 2025

The Path Continues

Promised Detonations

By: Christopher Morgan

Articles, Non-Fiction

Rebooting The Future: On Perry Rhodan, Perry Rhodan NEO, and Two Plots Alike in Dignity

Monday: Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

By: Phoenix Scholz

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Wednesday: Menacing Environments by Benjamin Bigelow

By: Octavia Cade

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Friday: The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed

By: Jacqueline Nyathi

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