I love the spec fic community because everyone is just so sincerely supportive of each other--watching the Hugo finalist announcements roll out and seeing all the congratulatory comments is so sweet 💜

You too!!

Couldn't be prouder--I'm new to staff, but a longtime fanboy of SH 💜

Underneath the Underneath The dragons are beautiful even when they’re dead, their serpentine bodies stacked up and up, their metallic blue scales glinting under the sun. This close, Mina can see how blank their eyes are thr…

Out now! @audreyzhou.bsky.social uses the beautiful and fantastic to illuminate the devastatingly real interiority of one woman's struggle for autonomy, and the impossible dilemma she faces in a society bent on controlling women's bodies (sound familiar?) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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It's my favorite time of year in Texas :)

Excellent hopeful speculative fiction poem! "Sometimes, hope is more painful than enduring: but now that we’ve survived, we live our lives at a ship’s helm of our own beginning."

Can't pass through national poetry month without sharing something from my favorite poet, Kay Ryan. A nice reminder for those of us who struggle with stubborn self-reliance to know our limits and accept the gift of help: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

It feels wrong to call this poem delightful, but I got a kick out of it. Love the balance of humor and sincerity tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...

The Houses of the Stars in Heaven Breathe. Breathe. Even though you are dead you must breathe— Oh, you are running. I suppose you could run. Run, then, if you never want to know what killed you, and why, and where you are now. For …

I love the gentle, mesmerizing voice of the narrator in this story, "The Houses of the Stars In Heaven" by @ferdwrites.bsky.social, who guides a young navigator through a speculative (subtly sci fi) reimagining of the afterlife in Polynesian myth. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

It’s our duty to escape: Becoming a fiction editor at Strange Horizons Six years ago, during the Covid shutdown, I found myself with a lot of time on my hands and facing the sudden collapse of what I had thought my future would look like. I was living in Pittsburgh at…

Finally got around to officially announcing my new role as fiction editor at Strange Horizons :) Just a little reflection on what Ursula K. Le Guin called the "duty" of escapism, and how happy I am to get to be a part of such a meaningful jailbreaking effort.
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The #Artemis mission is giving me a renewed childlike sense of wonder about space exploration irl 🧡

🍄 Strange Horizons fungus special issue!!! 🍄 As a big fan of fungal themes in speculative fiction I'm nerding out. I especially loved chewing over the imagery in this poem by Sonya Taafe: