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Carol Emshwiller lives in New York City. She has six novels and five short story collections. Her next collection will be put out by PS Publishing in England. It'll be a double book, her anti-war stories on one side and her regular SF/fantasy stories on the other. Also due this year from Nonstop Press is The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1, which will include close to a hundred pieces published between 1954 and 2002. For more about the author, see her website, or her previous appearances in Strange Horizons.


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19 Jan 2026

The moon was not her destination. It was a sentence.
the black fairy in the village sold her a dime for a nickel
After visits from the Whale, when the Lifemaker retreats to his chambers, Lúcio swims to the aquarium by the window, where he and Olga watch the fish fly by.
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