Corey Jae White

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Corey Jae White

Corey Jae White is the author of Repo Virtual and The VoidWitch Saga – Killing Gravity, Void Black Shadow, and Static Ruin – published by tordotcom publishing. She has also had short fiction published in Interzone and Analog, as well as a number of sci-fi anthologies. She studied writing at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, and is now based in Melbourne, Australia. Repo Virtual won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Find her at coreyjwhite.com or on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/coreyjwhite.com.

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Crisis Actors, Fiction, Issue 20 January 2025

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20 Jan 2025

Azimuth

Stop Surveillance Copaganda: A Collaboration with Fight for the Future

Strange Horizons

Surveillance technology looms large in our lives, sold to us as tools for safety, justice, and convenience. Yet the reality is far more sinister.

Fiction

A Charm to Keep the Evil Eye Away From Your Campervan; or, Roamin' Rights

By: Christopher R. Muscato

Vans and campers, sizeable mobile cabins and some that were barely more than tents. Each one a home, a storefront, and a statement of identity, from the colorful translucent windows and domes that harvested sunlight to the stickers and graffiti that attested to places travelled.

Fiction

Crisis Actors

By: Maddison Stoff
By: Corey Jae White

“Don’t ask me how, but I found out this big account on queer Threads is some kind of super Watcher.” Charlii spins her laptop around so the others can see. “They call them Keepers, and they watch the people that the state’s apparatus has tagged as terrorists. Not just the ones the FBI created. The big fish. And people like us, I guess.”

Fiction

Curlews

By: Cecilia Ananías Soto

It's 9 a.m., she still hasn't eaten her portion of tofu eggs with seaweed, and Amaia wants the day to be over.

Fiction

Murder in the Clavist Autonomous Zone

By: Rich Larson

Nadjea always knew her last night in the Clave would get wild: they’re the only sector of the city where drink and drug and dance are unrestricted, and since one of the main Clavist tenets is the pursuit of corporeal joy in all its forms, they’ve more or less refined partying to an art.

Poetry

age of villains

By: Gerald L. Coleman

surviving / while black / is our superpower / we lift broken down / cars / over our heads / and that’s just a tuesday

Fiction

Taking Back the City

By: Christine Phan

After a few deft movements, she tossed the cube back to James, perfectly solved. “We’re going to break into the Seattle Police Department’s database. And you’re going to help me do it.”

Poetry

hypercapnia

By: Ismail Yusuf Olumoh

there are things that are toxic to a bo(d)y

Podcasts

Podcast: Bee Season

By: Michelle Kulwicki
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie

In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Michelle Kulwicki's 'Bee Season' read by Emmie Christie Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify.

Reviews

Monday: The Machine Autocorrects Code to I by Chanlee Luu

By: Tristan Beiter

Wednesday: Motheater by Linda H. Codega

By: E. C. Barrett

Friday: Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain The World by Chris Gavaler and Nat Goldberg

By: Vivian Wagner

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