It's that time of the week again and we've got a shiny new issue for you to peruse!
This week in the world of fiction we have Kay Chronister's "The Lights We Carried Home" of ghosts and hauntings and sisters. As always you can listen to this week's story rather than read it, thanks to the 2017-02-06 19:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Exciting news today! As you may recall, as part of last year's fund drive we raised enough money to launch a sister magazine for Strange Horizons, focusing on speculative fiction in translation.
Well, it won't publish its first issue for another couple of months, but as of today Samovar is officially open to submissions. You can check out its submission guidelines on its (in-development) website here:
2017-02-01 17:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
As promised, attached to this post you should find the complete ebook of this month's material, featuring original stories by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kerstin Hall, and Su-Yee Lin; special issues on resistance and on native/indigenous SF; a bumper set of poems; and our usual essays and reviews.
You can download it, and all our other ebooks, from our Dropbox archive:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o3var9o8disr87t/AAAndoaiL...
2017-01-31 00:02:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Here's something to distract you on a Monday evening: a new issue!
http://strangehorizons.com/issue/30-january-2017/
It's our second special of the month, and showcases fiction, poetry, and non-fiction by native and indigenous writers.
We have Drew Hayden Taylor's story "Take Us To Your Chief" (from his collection of the same name); we have three poems apiece by poets Halee Kirkwood and Tanaya Winder; we have a round-table...
2017-01-30 23:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post
With apologies for the delayed announcement, we have a new issue !
This week, we are very pleased to share the results of our 2016 Readers' Poll.
A. Watson presents an article ...
2017-01-24 20:34:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We're doing something a bit different today.
In addition to original work, throughout the week we will be re-publishing stories, poetry, and non-fiction from our archives. Their shared theme is resistance.
We hope you will find community, strength, and courage in these pieces, as we do.
Today, we have fiction from Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "BlueBellow ", and poetry by 2017-01-16 22:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Hope you're all doing well! Just a quick reminder that this year's Readers' Poll is only open for a couple more days -- until the end of Sunday -- so please do take a moment to let us know your favourites from last year; we really appreciate it. You can find it here:
http://strangehorizons.com/readers-poll/
thanks,
Niall
2017-01-13 21:50:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Monday, all!
We're back in your inbox with our second issue of January 2017.
This issue, we have a marvelous story by Kerstin Hall, "Bombyx mori", as well as a poem by Salik Shah, "Field Notes ".
Monday sees Julian Kelsey Jarboe's review of Age of Blight: Stories by Kristine Ong Muslim. Come Wednesday, expect Jaymee Goh's review of Arrival. Finally, on Friday, Alasdair Czyrnyj rev...
2017-01-09 21:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year! We're back with our first issue of 2017:
http://strangehorizons.com/issue/2-january-2017/
And it includes Su-Yee Lin's story "The Monkey King Sleeps", S. Qioyu Lu's poem "Inhalations", and our reviewers' annual look back at the year just gone (part one today, part two on Wednesday).
But wait! That's not all! You can also perform your own review of the year by reviewing us, by voting in our readers' poll:
Hi all,
And here we are with the ebook: all of this month's stories, poems, reviews and essays in one handy package, wrapped up in Mahendra Singh's artwork for "The Thanatos Mode".
If you missed a month, don't forget that all of our ebooks are available in our Dropbox archive (password: M0hanraj):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6yjc87o709o4p31/AAD2GzcyttzE8Tkyr08MblwAa?dl=0
And as ever, if you have any problems with ...
2016-12-19 22:51:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
It's up, and it can be found here:
http://strangehorizons.com/issue/19-december-2016/
Our final story of the year is "The Three Nights of the Half-Gent" by Mário de Seabra Coelho, which begins thusly:
"When Half-Gent was alive he used to come sit on the edge of the seat and watch Vallerina dance. She still danced, even after dying, and he still came to see her, but now there were cobwebs and dry corpses against the velve...
2016-12-19 22:48:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! It must be Monday, because we've got a new issue all ready for your reading pleasure.
This week, enjoy G. V. Anderson's story , "Das Steingeschöpf", new poetry by Steffi Lang , "the princess of blue roses", and a review of 2016-12-12 21:53:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Welcome to our first December issue, featuring:
"The Thanatos Mode" spaceship killer fiction by Tom Hadrava,
"Jacob's Ladder": poetry by Evelyn Deshane,
and an artist interview with Mahendra Singh , who illustrat...
2016-12-05 18:57:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
As promised, please find attached this month's ebook! All of this month's stories, poems, reviews and essays in one handy package, wrapped up in Susie Oh's lovely artwork for "The Wreck at Goat's Head" by Alexandra Manglis.
If you missed a month, don't forget that all of our ebooks are available in our Dropbox archive (password: M0hanraj):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6yjc87o709o4p31/AAD2GzcyttzE8Tkyr08MblwAa?dl=0 2016-11-28 22:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
A mini-special for you this week: we are delighted to reprint Sarah Tolmie's story "The Dancer on the Stairs", along with an interview of Tolmie by Maureen Kincaid Speller, and a review of Tolmie's latest book, Two Travelers, by Molly Katz. We're very grateful to Tolmie and to Aqueduct Press (who have published all of Tolmie's fiction so far) for letting us make this happen, and if you haven't read Tolmie before, a) I think you should, and b) I think this is a good place to start. Read it here:
I come bearing a new issue for you all, fellow travellers!
This week we take a trip to venus for our fiction from Jay Werkheiser. We also have poetry from Toby MacNutt, the latest instalment of Kari Sperring's Matrilines column and the 2016-11-21 21:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Monday, all!
It's a new week, so it must be time for a new issue. This week, we have excellent poetry by Romalyn Ante and fiction by Alexandra Manglis . There's also an interview with artist Susie Oh , whose beautiful work you can ...
2016-11-14 18:20:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Monday and it's new issue time! After all the excitement of the Spanish special last week we have lot to live up to, so it's good job we have some excellent fiction by Ada Hoffman, haunting poetry by Tlotlo Tsamaase, and a great review of 2016-11-07 18:02:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Here's the October ebook, as promised! All five weeks, and all the content from our Spanish special (including the poems and reviews that will be published on the site over the course of the week). As ever, if you have any issues downloading or reading the files, let us know.
This feels like the capstone to a particularly busy period for the magazine -- running from Our Queer Planet, through our Utopia special, the fund drive, the new website, and now this special. November is going to feel ... oddly quiet, in some ways!
-...
2016-11-01 00:47:55 +0000 UTC View Post
You helped to fund it in this year's fund drive, and now it's here! Our bumper-sized Spanish SF Special, which includes stories by Susana Vallejo and Tamara Romero, a conversation between Elia Barceló and Ricard Ruiz Garzón, poetry (released through the week) by Antonio Rivero Taravillo, Estíbaliz Espinosa, Sofia Rhei and Almijara Barbero Carvajal, reviews, more podcasts than you can shake a stick at, and the rather striking issue art you see a...
2016-11-01 00:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.strangehorizons.com/issue/24-october-2016/Today is a very exciting day - we're publishing our first issue on our brand new website!
We have beautiful poetry from Lev Mirov, 2016-10-24 11:43:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
After a brief break to gather our thoughts after the fund drive, we're back on the case and starting to sort out all the donor rewards. First up: our fund drive ebook! Attached to this post you'll find epub, mobi and PDF editions containing all the content from this year's special, including the Patreon-unlocked bonus story by Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría.
In addition, as patrons we're giving you all access to back-issues of our ebook. At the moment the archive is a 2016-10-20 07:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post
... drumroll please ...
$19,752!
That's from 453 donors, or, including those of you who were patron-ing here last year and have stuck around, 678 -- and that second number is a new record for the number of people involved in a fund drive. Thank you all!
What that means is:
Hi all,
I'm not sure which bit of the headline is actually more exciting. Let's do the new issue first.
The rather fine art you see attached to this post is by Aud Koch, illustrating this week's story, "The Witch's Knives", by Margaret Ronald. A taste:
It began to rain flowers before she was even halfway down the path, heavy, wet petals... 2016-10-17 19:37:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
I struggled a bit with the graph options this week, and then decided that the best thing was simply to go back to the start so that you can see how far we've come. It hasn't been, and probably will not be, our best fund drive ever; but it has ended up as a very solid one. The final-week effect kicked in with a vengeance -- as you can see from the graph, and could probably tell from the flurry of posts this week (have you read all of our 2016-10-16 23:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello new patrons! Thanks for joining our merry band. Between you, you have unlocked our final bonus content this fund drive: Lawrence Schimel's translation of "Terpsichore", by Argentinian writer Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría.
Consider it, among other things, a trailer for our Samovar project: as we hope to do with all the work we translate, we're reprinting the original (in this case, Spanish) language version of the story, and ...
2016-10-14 19:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Fund drive final week is fun, isn't it? Milestones falling daily. Long may it continue -- as the subject line of this post indicates, we have just now passed $13,000, which unlocks podcasts for the two fund drive stories published so far:
Thanks to all your fantastic support we've just hit $11.5k and published 'The Troll Who Hid Her Heart' by Jenn Grunigen!
We're all massively grateful for your help with publishing great SFF content like this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
-- Jane
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2016/20161010/2grunigentroll-f.shtml
2016-10-11 17:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings!
It's a good Monday: we've got not just a new issue for you, but also another piece of bonus content.
Issue first: our story is "Timothy" by Philip Schweitzer. What's it about?
Very early on a bright, sunny morning,... 2016-10-10 18:50:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
This week's fund drive has been much the same as last week: steady but slow-ish progress, taking us to the cusp of $9,000 and our next bonus content. That's pleasing, but is it good enough?
This year's fund drive ends on 17th October (at 23.59 PST, to be precise). That means there are eight donating days left. They're normally eight of the busiest days of the fund drive. What this graph shows is what that actually means, in dollars.
From left to right, you'll find the final-week take for the last five years (in grey), ...
2016-10-09 23:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post
