Voting for the first round of the 2019 British Science Fiction Association Awards closes on January 31st, and we have three pieces on this year's longlist! We’re delighted to present the following nominees for your consideration: Nominated for Best Shorter Fiction:  2086, by TK Lê Nominated for Best Non-Fiction: Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times, by Jaymee Goh “Post” for Whom? Examining the Socioeconomics of a Post-Apocalypse, by Suyi Davies Okungbowa You can check out the entire longlist here, and if you are a BSFA member, you can vote for your favorite pieces of 2019!  Congratulations and best of luck to all the talented nominees!

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Here are the friends who have left or fallen out of contact in the last few years, and we thank them for their gifts, kindnesses, and dedication.

What linked these four poems, which were all drawn from general submissions, and are not unlike other poems we have published over the last several years?

I’ve always heard that a place is the people you meet. True words, but after co-editing this issue of Strange Horizons, I know truer ones: a place is the stories you tell.

It seems to me a sacred duty to be trusted by writers—established or emerging or still incubating— with their sweet, sharp, and strange work.

When someone says that a name, a word, or an idea is on the tip of their tongue, what they mean is that they have entered that strange space between memory and forgetting.

Her ideas – particularly in the realms of politics, feminism, gender, sexuality and spirituality – contain exactly the same liberating magic today as they did when she first conceived them.

Beginning with this issue, Strange Horizons will be adding a content warning feature to all of its published material.

Welcome to a special issue dedicated to SFF from the Arab League community and diaspora.