"What if we would start thinking of epic fantasy as a genre of contact, but not conquest? The genre is sort of built around conflict, and that's why we don't see it being done very often. Conflict is such a part of the genre that you have to address it before shifting to contact."

Without a vital link to the ever-changing Zeitgeist , SF will become a closed system where recycling subject matter and theme is all that's possible.

I think of how upheavals and eruptions must happen in order for us to reach that place where all of us have space to speak our words and share our stories.

She designed labels showing cigarillos / exploited in most unusual ways

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