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This is a quick roundup of all the original fiction published by Strange Horizons in 2017: three novelettes and 35 short stories, including three translations. If you’re reading and nominating for awards this year, these stories are all eligible! And if not, you should read them purely because they are amazing and we’re very proud of all of them.
Short stories
- “The Monkey King Sleeps” by Su-Yee Lin
- “Bombyx mori” by Kerstin Hall
- “BlueBellow” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- “The Lights We Carried Home” by Kay Chronister
- “Only Calculate the Motion of Heavenly Bodies” by Marcia Richards
- “London Calling” by Philip A. Suggars
- “Terra Nullius” by Hanuš Seiner, translated by Julie Nováková
- “Love Pressed in Vinyl” by Devon Wong
- “Lacuna” by Lane Robins
- “Seeds” by Margaret Wack
- “They Will Take You From You” by Brandon O’Brien
- “Le lundi de la matraque (Nightstick Monday)” by Claire Humphrey
- “Light, Like a Candle Flame” by Iona Sharma
- “Utopia, LOL?” by Jamie Wahls
- “The Fox Head Barks Facing Seaward” by Natalia Antonova
- “A Slumbering Storm” by Rafaela Ferraz
- “Owl vs. The Neighborhood Watch” by Darcie Little Badger
- “The Dead Father Cookbook” by Ashley Blooms
- “These Constellations Will Be Yours” by Elaine Cuyegkeng
- “unfurl/ed” by Jes Rausch
- “Human Pilots” by J. B. Park
- “The Tears of a Building Surveyor, and Other Stories” by Aliya Whiteley
- “Twelve Pictures from a Second World War” by Nghi Vo
- “Watershed” by Allison Jamieson-Lucy
- “Oshun, Inc.” by Jordan Ifueko
- “Rescuing Napoleon” by Helena Bell
- “Krace Is Not a Highway” by Scott Vanyur
- “Airswimming” by Aisha Phoenix
- “As Tender Feet of Cretan Girls Danced Once Around an Altar of Love” by Julian K. Jarboe
- “The Darwinist” by Diaa Jubaili, translated by Alexander Hong
- “Judo” by Rasha Abbas, translated by Robin Moger
- “Them Boys” by Nora Anthony
- “El Cóndor del Machángara” by Ana Hurtado
- “Three May Keep a Secret” by Carlie St. George
- “Sasabonsam” by Tara Campbell
Novelettes
- “Concessions” by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
- “Darner” by Jonathan Laidlow
- “The Birding: A Fairy Tale” by Natalia Theodoridou
Thank you for reading along with us this year, and we hope you enjoyed the stories!