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Seamus Sullivan

Seamus Sullivan’s fiction has appeared in Terraform, and some of his plays can be found on New Play Exchange, or on Flying V’s Paperless Pulp podcast. He divides his time between writing, housework, and finding new ways to make a toddler laugh.


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Current Issue
7 Jul 2025
Poetry
the panic of a god 
By: Elisha Oluyemi
i and màmá, two moons, two eclipsed suns.
Poetry
The Angel Questions His Faith 
By: Zachariah Claypole White
Tell me, can God sing / like a katydid; cicada-bellow / for the seventeen silent years?
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 13: SFF in Translation 
By: Dan Hartland
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Dan Hartland speaks with reviewers and critics Rachel Cordasco and Will McMahon about science fiction in translation.
Reviews
Monday: The Fake Muse by Max Besora, translated by Mara Faye Lethem 
By: Will McMahon
Tuesday: Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro, translated by Eve Hill-Agnus 
By: Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira
Wednesday: The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain 
By: Jake Casella Brookins
Thursday: Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani 
By: Dan Hartland
Friday: BUG by Giacomo Sartori, translated by Frederika Randall 
By: Rachel Cordasco
Read Issue
Issue 30 Jun 2025
Editorials
Dream Logic, Hauntings, and Joy: An Introduction to the AfroSurreal Special Issue 
By: the Strange Horizons staff
Fiction
The Black Refinery 
By: Nadia Amatullah King
Fiction
Till Earth and Heaven Ring 
By: K. S. Walker
Fiction
Let Sleeping Hyenas Lie 
By: Rutendo Chidzodzo
Poetry
SET IT OFF (1996) – FANS’ CUT 
By: NOVA CYPRESS BLACK
Poetry
luminaries 
By: Adebe DeRango-Adem
Poetry
parallels 
By: Praise Osawaru
Articles, Non-Fiction
A Conjuror’s Manifesto: Notes on the Afrosurreal 
By: Shyheim Williams
Podcasts, Writing While Disabled
An Interview with Donyae Coles (Writing While Disabled S2E3) 
By: Kristy Anne Cox
By: Kate Johnston
By: Donyae Coles
Reviews
Monday: Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time by Rasheedah Phillips 
By: Joy Sanchez-Taylor
,
Wednesday: Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon 
By: A. S. Lewis
,
Friday: The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha L. Womack 
By: Jacqueline Nyathi
Read Issue
Issue 23 Jun 2025
Poetry
The Minotaur Joins a New-Age Self-Help Forum 
By: Edryd Bowmer
Poetry
Filaments 
By: Devan Barlow
Fiction
Sceach Gheal 
By: Katie McIvor
Reviews
Monday: The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist 2025 
By: Gautam Bhatia
,
Wednesday: Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield 
By: Marisa Mercurio
,
Friday: The Hampdenshire Wonder by J.D. Beresford 
By: William Shaw
Read Issue
Issue 16 Jun 2025
Poetry
Women Who Crossed 
By: Claudia Excaret Santos
Poetry
Why Some Towns Get Extra Bears 
By: Amelia Gorman
Art, Fiction
Because I Held His Name Like a Key 
By: Aimee Ogden
Art by: Catarina João
Podcasts
Podcast: 'Sister, Silkie, Siren, Shark' 
By: Ariel Marken Jack
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Reviews
Monday: Major Arcana by John Pistelli 
By: Catherine Baker
,
Wednesday: Bird Ornaments by Angel T. Dionne 
By: Paul Chuks
,
Friday: Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva, translated by Rahul Bery 
By: David Hebblethwaite
Read Issue
Issue 9 Jun 2025
Poetry
infertile oracle 
By: sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Poetry
A Journey Through the Dystopiaverse 
By: Jason P. Burnham
Reviews
Monday: Waterblack by Alex Pheby 
By: Matthew Eatough
,
Wednesday: The Wheel of Time Season 3 
By: Marina Berlin
,
Friday: Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes 
By: Shannon Fay
Read Issue
Issue 8 Jun 2025
Fiction
View Window 
By: A. T. Greenblatt
Poetry
Space Worm Poem 
By: Libby Graham
Poetry
A Mermaid Falls in Love with Icarus 
By: Elena Sichrovsky
Poetry
In the Year of the Wedding 
By: Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Wild Courage of Despair 
By: Ian Muneshwar
Articles, Non-Fiction
No Defeat is Final: Kerry Ryan interviews Pat Cadigan and Nicola Griffith 
By: Kerry Ryan
Articles, Non-Fiction
It's About Connection: Kerry Ryan interviews Julianne Pachico, Emily Tesh, and Hanna Thomas Uose 
By: Kerry Ryan
Art by: Kerry Ryan
Poetry
Do Ghosts Have Department Stores? 
By: Brittany Decker
Fiction
The Ache of Hollow Places 
By: Avra Margariti
Reviews
Monday: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 
By: Archita Mittra
,
Sunday: William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark by Timothy S. Murphy 
By: Daniel A. Rabuzzi
,
Tuesday: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton and Mickey17 
By: Amritesh Mukherjee
Read Issue
Issue 2 Jun 2025
Poetry
Hansel & Gretel Part Ways 
By: Ziggy Edwards
Poetry
Customer Service Representative’s Notes on Soul Processing 
By: Dana Wall
Podcasts
Podcast: 'A City on Its Tentacles' 
By: R.B. Lemberg
Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
Reviews
Monday: The Sea Gives Up the Dead: Stories by Molly Olguín 
By: Elizabeth A. Allen
,
Wednesday: Dream of the Bird Tattoo by Juan J. Morales 
By: Tristan Beiter
,
Friday: Peri Peri Paprika by Leanne Su 
By: Eric Hendel
Read Issue
Issue 26 May 2025
Poetry
Lego Rhapsody 
By: Faye Susan
Poetry
r/ask physics: can a light be bright enough to shine through a human body without damaging it? 
By: Tara Labovich
Articles, Non-Fiction
Neither Girls Nor Friends: the Artificial Woman in American Science Fiction 
By: William Shaw
Fiction
How to Dispose of a Dead Albatross 
By: Octavia Cade
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 13: A Conversation with Nghi Vo 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Nghi Vo
Reviews
Monday: The Mires by Tina Makereti 
By: Octavia Cade
,
Wednesday: Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee 
By: Kyle R. Garton
,
Friday: How to Survive This Fairytale by S. M. Hallow 
By: Hana Carolina
Read Issue
Issue 19 May 2025
Podcasts
Podcast: 'Half Sick of Shadows' 
By: Elle Engel
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Poetry
The Admiral Pub Pinball Repairman Repairs Witch Mountain 
By: M.C. Childs
Poetry
Rabbit Delusion with Desire Line 
By: Em Setzer
Reviews
Monday: The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Walker Thompson 
By: Jenny Hamilton
,
Wednesday: You, From Below by Em J. Parsley 
By: Phoenix Scholz
,
Friday: Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino 
By: Anushree Nande
Read Issue
Issue 12 May 2025
Fiction
Five Things You Can See 
By: Nadia Radovich
Poetry
Instructions for Borrowing Time 
By: Subham Rai
Poetry
Stranger 
By: Vivian Estelle McMeekin
Podcasts, SH@25
SH@25 Episode 12: A Conversation with Naomi Kritzer 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Naomi Kritzer
Reviews
Monday: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček 
By: Electra Pritchett
,
Wednesday: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson 
By: Bill Capossere
,
Friday: The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths 
By: Sneha Pathak
Read Issue
Issue 5 May 2025
Fiction
Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse 
By: Mar Vincent
Poetry
The Strangers Came 
By: Adam Ford
Poetry
Come Back Wrong 
By: Izzy Wasserstein
Azimuth, Editorials
Call for Volunteers: Webmaster 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Reviews
Monday: Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Science Fiction edited by Sonia Sulaiman 
By: Akankshya Abismruta
,
Wednesday: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell 
By: Vivian Wagner
,
Friday: Don’t Let the Forest In by C. G. Drews 
By: Cameron Miguel
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