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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Sarah Tolmie's “The Imaginary Palace of the Winter King.”



Sarah Tolmie is a speculative fiction writer and poet. Her website is sarahtolmie.ca. Her newest novel, The Little Animals, coming out with Aqueduct Press in 2019, is about the Dutch microscopist Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek.
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24 Feb 2025

imagine / what it would be like / for one punished by the gods
knowing the world means dissolving its walls
The more of us stand together, the faster this change will be and the fewer people will suffer in the meantime. In what I hope is a quite obvious note: this is not me saying this. This is a known and ancient precept. There are people who think about this a lot in every time, in every culture. If you haven’t thought of this in a while, I ask to bump it up in your decisions. In your thoughts about “conflict”.
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