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It takes a village to raise a magazine. At Strange Horizons, our village is borderless and ever-changing.

Our gratitude to those who have moved on from the Zine in these past few months. We would like to thank Vanessa Rose Phin (Articles Editor and then E-i-C), Stephen Ira (Poetry Editor), Lulu Kadhim (Articles Editor), A. Katherine Black, Alexandra Hill, Chaitanya Murali, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe, Elinor Bonifant, Emory Noakes, George Tom Elavathingal, Kaitlin Beranek, Luke Tolvaj, and Roy Graham (First Readers). They have all made Strange Horizons what it is today, and we are all very grateful.

These departures have resulted in a change in the mast-head, and also - as we complete two decades in existence - some re-structuring of the zine. Keeping with our tendencies towards anarchic cooperation, Strange Horizons will no longer have an Editor-in-Chief, but a more explicitly (strange) horizontal structure; while the several departments have always been autonomous with respect to soliciting and editing the content that you read every week, the new masthead reflects that autonomy in a more express fashion.

Anarchism does, of course, need coordination. There will therefore be a co-ordinating editor (Gautam Bhatia), who will be responsible for coordinating between the departments, and publishing the magazine; an administrative editor (Romie Stott), who will handle contracts and finances; and in due course, we hope to bring on board editors responsible for communication and fund-raising.

We enter our third decade with gratitude for those who made the first two possible, and with hope for what the coming years will bring.



Current Issue
20 Jan 2025

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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
surviving / while black / is our superpower / we lift broken down / cars / over our heads / and that’s just a tuesday
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.”
there are things that are toxic to a bo(d)y
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.
Wednesday: Motheater by Linda H. Codega 
Friday: Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain The World by Chris Gavaler and Nat Goldberg 
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By: Samantha Murray
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
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By: E.M. Linden
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
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By: Susannah Rand
Podcast read by: Claire McNerney
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