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Maria Nieto is a biology professor at Cal State East Bay. Maria’s works of fiction, Pig Behind The Bear and The Water of Life Remains in the Dead, have won several literary awards. Through history, science, and humor, Maria forces us to see the unseen: those killed and abused under the cover of nightfall. Maria’s third book, a work of nonfiction, The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex, will be released early 2020.

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17 Nov 2025

We thought it was a miracle, though not a very useful one, and she got to be on TV
“Emptiness,” says the monster, “feels like a monster / is wearing / your face,”
In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with long-time Strange Horizons contributor RB Lemberg to talk about everything from using poetry as a tool to refine short and long-form fiction, to writing about the diaspora experience, and the comfort one can find in stories from perspectives outside one's own. Oh, and Ursula K LeGuin, of course.
Wednesday: Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago 
Friday: We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris 
Issue 10 Nov 2025
By: B. Pladek
Podcast read by: Arden Fitzroy
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By: miriam
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By: Diana Dima
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
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By: Malda Marlys
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
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