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17 June 2013

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FICTION: Longfin's Daughters, by O. J. Cade

When her sisters came home, their slippers once more danced through, they found the youngest in her bed, but though her head was hidden under the pillow as usual, her hair was wet and there were bites on her thighs and a new eel for smoking.

FICTION: Podcast: Longfin's Daughters, by O. J. Cade, read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents O. J. Cade's "Longfin's Daughters." You can read the full text of the story, and more about O. J., here.

POETRY: Once, I Was a Mermaid, by Alicia Cole

Often, / I see a dark fedora tumbling past me / to break against thewaves.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Unexplained Fevers by Jeannine Hall Gailey, reviewed by Lesley Wheeler
Wednesday: Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells, reviewed by Phoebe North
Friday: Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction, edited by Kelly Jennings and Shay Darrach, reviewed by Benjamin Gabriel


10 June 2013

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FICTION: Collateral Memory, by Sabrina Vourvoulias

Friends or not, there is one guiding rule in the game: it's got to be genuine. Like life. Real. Anything else would be a cheat. And despite all of our other differences, no one in the shed is that. Except me.

FICTION: Podcast: Collateral Memory, by Sabrina Vourvoulias, read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Sabrina Vourvoulias's "Collateral Memory."

POETRY: Maidenhead, by Adriana Tosun

fall with me to the loam, / and together we will lose what / history knows nothing of

COLUMN: Intertitles: Superhuman Masculinity and the Musketeer Mythos in The Fast and the Furious, by Genevieve Valentine

These movies operate under the extremely handwavey rules of what Hollywood sometimes fever-dreams comics to be like, meaning that continuity and physics are flexible, but dammit, honor never is.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: The Alteration and The Green Man by Kingsley Amis, reviewed by Nina Allan
Wednesday: A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan, reviewed by Hannah Strom-Martin
Friday: Anthology of European Speculative Fiction, edited by Cristian Tamaş and Roberto Mendes, reviewed by Katherine Farmar


3 June 2013

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FICTION: Jinki and the Paradox, by Sathya Stone

"Years of erosion, that means the wind and water broke bits off the mountain along that way," he pointed east. "And brought them down here, to be dust." / "What mountains?" / "They're gone now," said Mr. Quest. "Eroded. You can see them if you look through Time."

FICTION: Podcast: Jinki and the Paradox, by Sathya Stone read by Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Sathya Stone's "Jinki and the Paradox."

POETRY: Again, Pygmalion, by Stella Nickerson

she made a man of cardboard and children's salt clay, / pressed in two green pennies for his eyes

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord, reviewed by L. Timmel Duchamp
Wednesday: The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann, reviewed by Niall Harrison
Friday: Scourge of the Betrayer by Jeff Salyards, reviewed by Nathaniel Katz


27 May 2013

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POETRY: And the War is Never Over, by Shira Lipkin

I've taken hits for all of us for years; / haven't I?

POETRY: Podcast: May Poetry, by Jane Tolmie, Perry Rath, Cassandra de Alba, Qyn and Shira Lipkin read by Julia Rios, Cassandra de Alba, Ciro Faienza and Anaea Lay

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents poetry from the May issues of Strange Horizons.

COLUMN: Me and Science Fiction: Fan Fiction, by Eleanor Arnason

My fannish creds are pretty solid, though I haven't written fan fic for more than forty years.

EDITORIAL: Non-fiction News, by Niall Harrison

A brief articles hiatus, a new focus, and editorial changes.

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews

Monday: Two Views: The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, reviewed by Jesse Bullington and Dan Hartland
Wednesday: Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand, reviewed by Nic Clarke
Friday: The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden, reviewed by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro



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