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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Beatriz F. Fernandez's “The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo” as read by the poet, first in English, then in Spanish.



Beatriz F. Fernandez is the author of The Ocean Between Us (Backbone Press, 2017) and Shining from a Different Firmament (Finishing Line Press, 2015), which she presented at the Miami Book Fair. She’s read her poetry on South Florida’s NPR news station and is a former grand prize winner of the Writer’s Digest Poetry Award. Beatriz F. Fernandez es la autora de The Ocean Between Us (Backbone Press, 2017) y Shining from a Different Firmament (Finishing Line Press, 2015), que presentó en la Feria del Libro de Miami. Ha leído su poesía en la estación de noticias NPR del sur de Florida y es una previa ganadora del Gran Premio de Poesía de la revista Writer’s Digest.
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31 Mar 2025

We are delighted to present to you our second special issue of the year. This one is devoted to ageing and SFF, a theme that is ever-present (including in its absence) in the genre.
Gladys was approaching her first heat when she shed her fur and lost her tail. The transformation was unintentional, and unwanted. When she awoke in her new form, smelling of skin and sweat, she wailed for her pack in a voice that scraped her throat raw.
does the comb understand the vocabulary of hair. Or the not-so-close-pixels of desires even unjoined shape up to become a boat
The birds have flown long ago. But the body, the body is like this: it has swallowed the smaller moon and now it wants to keep it.
now, be-barked / I am finally enough
how you gazed on our red land beside me / then how you traveled it, your eyes gone silver
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