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Emma Johanna Puranen (@spacesword13) is a Scotland-based astronomer, LARPer, and SF writer. She’s working on an interdisciplinary PhD using data science to understand science fictional portrayals of exoplanets. She’s the editor of the exoplanet anthology Around Distant Suns, (reviewed in Nature Astronomy!), and the creator of the audio drama ROGUEMAKER


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4 Aug 2025

Hello! Impoliteness is not intended.
Did none of you ever question why Robin Hood could melt into the trees?
In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, editor Kat Kourbeti chats to author Debbie Urbanski about her 2018 Strange Horizons publication and the 13 years of submissions it took to get accepted, writing in the gray areas between genres, and what it means to be artistically honest in your work.
In this episode of Critical Friends , Dan Hartland speaks with writers and critics Octavia Cade and M. L. Clark about writing in hard times.
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Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
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By: R.B. Lemberg
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
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