Photograph of text that suggests Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump as potential analogous American "heroes."

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Jeffrey Ford > Born Blind > Bourbon Penn I had a lot of questions and a few observations about the king of the squirrels. Right off the bat, it struck me as peculiar that the king of the squirrels wasn’t even a squirrel. It was a guy – Nads ...

Jeffrey Ford has a pretty good squirrel story

Photo of a paragraph of text that argues for British constitutional monarchy and ends by positing that "if Prince Charles ever manages to succeed to the throne ... he will become a new worldwide hero."

I'm reading through all the original Datlow & Windling Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthologies, and this paragraph from an essay on "Fantasy in the Real World" by Susan Cooper in YBFH 4 sure reads a lot differently in retrospect.

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SFBC is finishing our season on our favorite post: the Short Fiction Book Club Awards!

We read many gems this year, but we've voted on our favorites. I'm happy to present our slate of awards (with very normal award names and presenter speeches).

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Sounds like the word for heavens came from the literal sky. Maybe the dual was for the night sky vs the day sky?

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written. I delved through it via card catalogues and microfiche. Now it's all on for-profit journal catalogues that my institution can't afford.

I was looking at Steven Utley's "The Country Doctor" (Asimov's 1993), and I just realized how strange it must have been for Gardner Dozois to get this story in the mail and open it up and the first sentence is "Gardner was drowning, and strangers were laying hands on the bones of my forebears."

Text: "What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History."

Ursula K. Le Guin, from "A Man of the People" (1995), in Five Ways to Forgiveness

Kij Johnson's "Mantis Wives" also seems appropriate to mention here. clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_08_12/

Humble Book Bundle: The Best of Ellen Datlow Anthologies by Open Road Expand your library with this collection of anthologies edited by award-winning sci-fi, fantasy, and horror editor Ellen Datlow! Every purchase supports Active Minds!

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Text: "Eternity and Afterward" (2001 F&SF), perhaps the most virtuoso tale in the book, carries a post-Fall Russian hood into a nightclub which is a pit which is a revel which is an edifice which is a labyrinth which is hell which the sum of life."

John Clute on Lucius Shepard, from Canary Fever: Reviews (2009)

Pandemonium Waltz by Jeffrey Ford: Review by Gary K. Wolfe Pandemonium Waltz, Jeffrey Ford (Lethe Press 978-1-59021786-3, $23.00, 270pp, tp) February 2026. With such a collection of World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards that he could probably make them …

Review of Pandemonium Waltz from Locus Magazine's Gary K. Wolfe.

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A photo of the cover of Seasons of Glass & Iron: Stories, by Amal El-Mohtar, depicting a rabbit chasing a dog through a colorful optical illusion.

"Madeleine reads Walter Benjamin on time as image, time as accumulation, and thinks of layers and pearls. She thinks of her mother as a pearl dissolving in wine until only a grain of sand is left drowning at the bottom of the glass."

Book cover illustration of a woman's head with long brown hair, floating above a UFO

Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories by Women about Women, edited by Pamela Sargent

Oh, and Angela Slatter's The Sourdough Compendium, which will contain her out-of-print early collections.

Pandemonium Waltz by Jeffrey Ford

Moon Over Brendle by Jeff Noon

The Three Coffin Problem by Lavie Tidhar

Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry

Stories Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Jonathan Strahan