We try to treat you at this time of year.
The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.
In a time when questions of choice are so volatile in reality, surfacing them in speculative fiction is vital for helping people grasp their own agency.
What I find interesting in the “politics” of these three books is that “preachiness” is not a function of political messaging, but one of aesthetic integrity.
There is a voyeuristic exoticism in fantasy, with a range of dehumanization throughout the genre.
A giant throbbing blob of eyeballs hovers at my front door, long wings flapping
Poet Seth Wade discusses his poem's connections to the novel So Long A Letter by Mariama Bâ, and to other works of philosophy, vaudeville, blues, and religion.
safety, solidarity, sympathy, strength,
commodities closed out
of the official economy—
Poet Marie Brennan explains the genesis of her ekphrastic poem and how it subverts the traditionally misogynist reading of the original artwork.
Who are some of the singular and eccentric authors within English-language speculative literature?
In this episode of Critical Friends , the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, as part of our 2026 criticism special issue Tristan Beiter introduces us to his Ursula K. Le Guin book club.
