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William Mingin

Bill Mingin, a graduate of Clarion West, has published two dozen short stories with more forthcoming, and over three hundred nonfiction pieces; he currently reviews audiobooks for AudioFile Magazine. His fiction appeared most recently in Best of Talebones. He's married and lives in central New Jersey, where he runs a small book export business.

William Mingin in our archives

Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Paul Walter, Reviews, Issue 4 April 2016
She Walks in Darkness by Evangeline Walton, Reviews, Issue 9 December 2013
Looper, Reviews, Issue 22 October 2012
Hitchers by Will McIntosh, Reviews, Issue 21 May 2012
The Magician King by Lev Grossman, Reviews, Issue 16 April 2012
Conan's Brethren and Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures by Robert E. Howard, Reviews, Issue 28 November 2011
Game of Cages by Harry Connolly, Reviews, Issue 21 February 2011
The Midnight Mayor by Kate Griffin, Reviews, Issue 1 November 2010
Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero by Dan Abnett, Reviews, Issue 6 September 2010
Inception, Reviews, Issue 9 August 2010
The Inter-Galactic Playground by Farah Mendlesohn, Reviews, Issue 28 June 2010
Heroes in the Wind by Robert E. Howard, Reviews, Issue 22 February 2010
The Stranger by Max Frei, Reviews, Issue 12 October 2009
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge, Reviews, Issue 27 July 2009
Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) by Ysabeau S Wilce, Reviews, Issue 23 March 2009
The Spirit, Reviews, Issue 12 January 2009
Button, Button by Richard Matheson, Reviews, Issue 17 November 2008
Realms: the first year of Clarkesworld Magazine, edited by Nick Mamatas and Sean Wallace, Reviews, Issue 13 October 2008
Sideways in Crime edited by Lou Anders, Reviews, Issue 15 September 2008
Gateways to Forever: the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1970 to 1980 by Mike Ashley, Reviews, Issue 14 January 2008
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron, Reviews, Issue 12 November 2007
The Man With the Golden Torc by Simon R. Green, Reviews, Issue 27 August 2007
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang, Reviews, Issue 16 July 2007
The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales by Rudyard Kipling, Reviews, Issue 23 April 2007
The Last Mimzy, Reviews, Issue 9 April 2007
Children of Men, Reviews, Issue 29 January 2007
American Morons by Glen Hirshberg, Reviews, Issue 2 October 2006
The Lady in the Water, Reviews, Issue 21 August 2006
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, Reviews, Issue 10 July 2006

Chang’e in Exile

By: Allison Zhang

The moon was not her destination. It was a sentence.

By: Akua Lezli Hope

the black fairy in the village sold her a dime for a nickel

Fingerprints on Glass and Clay

By: Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira

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.

Monday: Daedalus is Dead by Seamus Sullivan

By: Sneha Pathak

Wednesday: Predators, Reapers, and Deadlier Creatures by Matthew James Jones

By: James K. Moran

Friday: Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley

By: Nataliia Sova

Issue 12 Jan 2026

The Song of a Non-Human Intelligence

By: Mical Garcia

Creature With the Ticking Heart

By: Nico Martinez Nocito

Questions I Could Not Ask the Giant in Her Presence

By: R. C. Sherbrooke

Articles, Non-Fiction

Feminist Futurism Versus Project 2025: An Empowering Speculative Salon

By: Ada Palmer
By: Charlie Jane Anders
By: Andrea Hairston
By: Annalee Newitz
By: Isis Asare

Monday: Syncopation by Whitney French

By: Paul Kincaid

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Wednesday: We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older

By: Alex Kingsley

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Friday: An Instruction in Shadow by Benedict Jacka

Issue 5 Jan 2026

Blurbs for forthcoming genre poetry books

By: David Clink
By: Troy Harkin

The History of the Playa Michigan Lake Mining Company

By: Steve Wheat

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 19: On Cozy Horrors

By: Dan Hartland
By: Shannon Fay
By: Marisa Mercurio

Monday: 2025 In Review: Part One

By: Our Reviewers

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Wednesday: 2025 In Review: Part Two

By: Our Reviewers

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Friday: 2025 In Review: Part Three

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Issue 22 Dec 2025

By: Namita Krishnamurthy

The World To Come

By: Jennifer Hudak

O ASHY WINGS STILL FLUTTERING

By: Joemario Umana

Monday: What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker

By: Octavia Cade

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Wednesday: Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi

By: Duncan Lawie

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Friday: Startlement by Ada Limón

By: Amy Nagopaleen

Issue 15 Dec 2025

Open Fiction Submissions Window January 19th

Strange Horizons

The ghosts of me are in your machine

By: R.B. Lemberg

Skull-God — A Broadcast from the Trenches

By: Yucheng Tao

By: Emily Woodworth

Monday: Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby

By: Marisa Mercurio

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Wednesday: The Deep Forest by Sofía Rhei, translated by Kendal Simmons

By: Seamus Sullivan

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Friday: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

By: Safia H. Senhaji

Issue 8 Dec 2025

Captain’s Lay Back

By: Jeané D. Ridges

Addendum to the Martian Social Studies Textbook, 5th Ed.

By: Maya Wristen

Podcast: 'The Orchard Village Catalog'

By: Parker Peevyhouse
Podcast read by: Michael Ireland

Monday: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings

By: Roseanna Pendlebury

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Wednesday: Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman

By: Rachel Cordasco

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Friday: The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson

By: Shannon Fay

Issue 1 Dec 2025

I Wish You Died Laughing

By: Lio Abendan

Excerpt From the Memoirs of a Saint

Thalassophile After Visiting Exoplanet TOI 733 b

By: Colleen S. Harris

Azimuth, Editorials

For Your Consideration: Strange Horizons 2025 Award Eligibility

By: the Strange Horizons staff

Critical Friends, Non-Fiction, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 18: On Fantasy and History

By: Dan Hartland
By: Nick Hubble
By: Cameron Miguel

Monday: Like Shards of Rainbow Frolicking in the Air by L. Timmel Duchamp

By: William Shaw

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Wednesday: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

By: David Lewis

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Friday: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

By: Nileena Sunil

Issue 24 Nov 2025

A Song from Kulara

By: Jayasri Sridhar

Strands of Feelings

By: A. A. Ademola

Articles, Non-Fiction

Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence

By: Tanvir Ahmed

Articles, Non-Fiction

Old Enough to Become the Villain: Contemporary Narratives Around Growing Up

Columns, Non-Fiction

Stories From The Radio: The Revolt of the Worms

By: Kuzhali Manickavel

Podcasts, Writing While Disabled

Ageism and Ableism at Conventions (Writing While Disabled S2E5A)

By: Kate Johnston
By: Kristy Anne Cox

Monday: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

By: Nick Hubble

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Wednesday: A Granite Silence by Nina Allan

By: David Hebblethwaite

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Friday: Talamasca: The Secret Order

Issue 17 Nov 2025

Mrs. Magalina Hoopensteimer Wallenheimer Hogan Bogan’s Wedding Toast

By: Jessy Randall

The Face Stealer Tells Me What Emptiness Feels Like

By: Sean Glatch

Podcasts, SH@25

Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17)

By: Kat Kourbeti
By: R.B. Lemberg

Monday: The Curators by Maggie Nye

By: Roy Salzman-Cohen

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Wednesday: Dementia 21 volumes 1 and 2 by Shintaro Kago

By: Shannon Fay

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Friday: We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris

By: Ian J. Simpson

Issue 10 Nov 2025

The Patience of the Equator

By: Brishbhanu Baruah

618 Days in Longsleep

By: Mahaila Smith

Podcast: The Spindle of Necessity

By: B. Pladek
Podcast read by: Arden Fitzroy

Monday: Colourfields by Paul Kincaid

By: Shinjini Dey

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Wednesday: Making History by K. J. Parker

By: Cameron Miguel

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Friday: Esperance by Adam Oyebanji

By: Eric Hendel

Issue 3 Nov 2025

By: Melissa A Watkins

By: Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi

sijo from a spaceship escaping a dying planet

By: Annie Bolger

Critical Friends, Podcasts

Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully

By: Dan Hartland
By: Paul March-Russell
By: Jacqueline Nyathi

Monday: Eat the Ones you Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

By: Nileena Sunil

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Wednesday: The Demon by Victory Witherkeigh

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Friday: Field Of Frights by Christina Hagmann

By: Racheal Chie

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