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Sofia Samatar

Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories. She is the recipient of the William L. Crawford Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Her first short story collection, Tender, is now available from Small Beer Press.


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9 Jun 2025
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two bad omens are a good omen, but any three omens are a bad omen, because too many omens are a bad omen.
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A Journey Through the Dystopiaverse 
By: Jason P. Burnham
Will we unite and work together?
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Wednesday: The Wheel of Time Season 3 
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Friday: Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes 
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The Wild Courage of Despair 
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Wednesday: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 
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Customer Service Representative’s Notes on Soul Processing 
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Monday: The Sea Gives Up the Dead: Stories by Molly Olguín 
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Wednesday: Dream of the Bird Tattoo by Juan J. Morales 
By: Tristan Beiter
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Friday: Peri Peri Paprika by Leanne Su 
By: Eric Hendel
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Issue 26 May 2025
Poetry
Lego Rhapsody 
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r/ask physics: can a light be bright enough to shine through a human body without damaging it? 
By: Tara Labovich
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Neither Girls Nor Friends: the Artificial Woman in American Science Fiction 
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How to Dispose of a Dead Albatross 
By: Octavia Cade
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By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Nghi Vo
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By: Octavia Cade
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Wednesday: Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee 
By: Kyle R. Garton
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Friday: How to Survive This Fairytale by S. M. Hallow 
By: Hana Carolina
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Issue 19 May 2025
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By: Elle Engel
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The Admiral Pub Pinball Repairman Repairs Witch Mountain 
By: M.C. Childs
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Rabbit Delusion with Desire Line 
By: Em Setzer
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Monday: The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Walker Thompson 
By: Jenny Hamilton
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Wednesday: You, From Below by Em J. Parsley 
By: Phoenix Scholz
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Friday: Exit Zero by Marie-Helene Bertino 
By: Anushree Nande
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Instructions for Borrowing Time 
By: Subham Rai
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Stranger 
By: Vivian Estelle McMeekin
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SH@25 Episode 12: A Conversation with Naomi Kritzer 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Naomi Kritzer
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Monday: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček 
By: Electra Pritchett
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Wednesday: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson 
By: Bill Capossere
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Friday: The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths 
By: Sneha Pathak
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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
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Wednesday: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell 
By: Vivian Wagner
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Friday: Don’t Let the Forest In by C. G. Drews 
By: Cameron Miguel
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Poetry
low flying owls 
By: K. Meera
Poetry
Entangled Hearts: The Quantum Mechanics of Love 
By: Massimo Mitolo
Fiction
Nian: A New Year Story 
By: Leeyee Lim
Fiction, Podcasts
Podcast: By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars 
By: Premee Mohamed
Podcast read by: Kat Kourbeti
Reviews
Monday: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor 
By: Kyle R. Garton
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Wednesday: Salutation Road by Salma Ibrahim 
By: Paul Chuks
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Friday: This Cursed House by Del Sandeen 
By: David Lewis
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Issue 14 Apr 2025
Poetry
Skink Song 
By: Edryd Bowmer
Poetry
The Church at the Edge of Time 
By: Angela Liu
Azimuth
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Pandora's Formula 
By: Hannah Yang
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Indigenous Author Submissions 
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SH@25 Episode 11: A Conversation with Charlie Jane Anders 
By: Kat Kourbeti
By: Charlie Jane Anders
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Monday: New Adventures in Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan 
By: Stephen Case
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Wednesday: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton 
By: Matt Hilliard
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Friday: She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor 
By: Racheal Chie
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Issue 7 Apr 2025
Fiction
No One Dies of Longing 
By: Anjali Sachdeva
Poetry
Circumbendibus 
By: Wamuhu Mwaura
Poetry
Reaper 
By: Mary Soon Lee
Podcasts
Podcast: BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE 
By: Lowry Poletti
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
Reviews
Monday: Schrödinger’s Wife (and Other Possibilities) by Pippa Goldschmidt 
By: Octavia Cade
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Wednesday: J. G. Ballard’s Crash by Paul March-Russell and Keith Roberts’s Pavane: A Critical Companion by Paul Kincaid 
By: Adam Roberts
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Friday: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky 
By: Eric Primm
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Issue 31 Mar 2025
Azimuth, Editorials
Special Issue: Ageing and SFF 
By: Gautam Bhatia
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The Last Time Gladys Howled At the Moon 
By: Jennifer Hudak
Art by: Duds Saldanha
Poetry
Everyone dies 
By: Purbasha Roy
Poetry
The blanket, the secret, the dark 
By: R.B. Lemberg
Poetry
A Tree, At Peace 
By: Devan Barlow
Poetry
view 
By: M. Frost
Articles, Non-Fiction
Grannies Against Oppression 
By: Isabel Black
Podcasts, Writing While Disabled
Writing While Disabled S2E2: In conversation with Farah Mendlesohn 
By: Kristy Anne Cox
By: Kate Johnston
By: Farah Mendlesohn
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Monday: On the Calculation of Volume I & II by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland 
By: Will McMahon
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Wednesday: Under the Eye of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda 
By: Akankshya Abismruta
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Friday: The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, translated by Sinan Antoon 
By: Dan Hartland
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