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Brian Trent is an award-winning novelist (Remembering Hypatia: A Novel of Ancient Egypt, Never Grow Old: The Novel of Gilgamesh), journalist, poet, and screenwriter. His work has appeared in previous issues of Strange Horizons, as well as Electric Velocipede, Clarkesworld, Bewildering Stories, OG Speculative Fiction, and nearly 100 other venues. He is a two-time honorable mention winner in the L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest, and was a panelist at Yale's science fiction symposium "Literary Visions." For more information on Brian and his work, see his personal website.


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12 Jan 2026

Despite the barriers between different cetacean languages, our song crosses the vastness of the oceans, traveling in sync with the currents and even traversing great expanses of land. Our singing conveys the concept of “hope,” which is how we define the wait until our home feels safe again.
When you falter, recall that age is not your master
Do you swallow big blue whale eyes straight out of the jar?
When Le Guin talks about genre writers as “the realists of a larger reality” we surrender the power of that when we narrow our work to only depict one type of future. We have great power to restore alternate narratives, to re-broaden the range of imaginable futures.
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