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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein's "Sultana's Dream." You can read the full text of the story, and more about Rokheya, here.

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Anaea Lay lives in Chicago, Illinois where she writes, cooks, plays board games, reads too much, and questions the benevolence of the universe. Her work has appeared in many places including Apex, Penumbra, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and Nightmare. She lives online at anaealay.com.
Sultana's Dream was originally published in The Indian Ladies' Magazine, Madras, 1905, in English. Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein (9 December 1880 – 9 December 1932), was a Bengali writer, thinker, educationist, social activist, and advocate of women's rights.  
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