recurring and recurring. paralyzed in the face of the luminous suit

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond's “Excerpts from Sign & Grudge” with a reading by the poet.

A lot of the stories that made an impression on me in the last few months seemed to revolve around and deal with death in various forms, and while this might seem like a dark and terrible theme at first, that isn’t really the case.

Science fiction, Nourse taught me, was about people caring about people—regardless of their physical appearance or their cultural norms.