The reviews are in! Xicanxfuturism: Codex 1 edited by Scott Russell Duncan  reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi @hararereview.com Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Winston Waits for O’Brien by Christina Ranon "I have folded her into the hollows of my bones, spent hours stitching the thread of her voice into my veins." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

I have a short story out today in the wonderful @strangehorizons.bsky.social!! 💐💐 It's about two ex-warbots going on a road trip. It's about how the damage is done. Grateful to @mynachang.bsky.social and everyone at Strange Horizons. 💐💐 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

my fingers formed into guns

I killed four hundred soldier bots all vying for the same thing before I realized there was no such thing as anti-war if our invention was the solution.

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my fingers formed into guns by Jenny M. Liu @jennymliu.bsky.social "I killed four hundred soldier bots all vying for the same thing before I realized there was no such thing as anti-war if our invention was the solution." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Iyá Mi / My Mothers by Oluwafemi Aderinola "Yes, we will breathe in your lungs when bullets fly. Yes, we will turn your enemies’ roads to crooked thorns." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison  reviewed by Ryan Elliott Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

To Locked Feathers by Michael Hessel-Mial "vexing the other techs by peering into colliding particles, genetic codes, finding and exposing the doings of nonmortal ways for the benefit of humans." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

People Shoot People by Brie Atienza "Every night, the fridge forgets. So do the TV, the light switches, the thermostat, the ceiling fans, the sinks, the plant pots, and the trash compactor. For better or worse, nightly resets wipe complex relational matrices." strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

The reviews are in! Beatrice the Sixteenth by Irene Clyde   reviewed by Elizabeth A. Allen Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Critical Friends Episode 27: Pop Fiction with AJ Odasso @ajodasso.bsky.social Electra Pritchett and Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social SFF has a long and complex relationship with questions of popular culture. Where does this stand today? Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Critical Friends Episode 27: Pop Fiction

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, AJ Odasso and Electra Pritchett join Dan Hartland to talk about popular fiction.

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Minnie or Maude by Gwynne Garfinkle "there are all kinds of witch hunts, Maude" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

not to have killed a king by E. L. Roseman @elroseman.bsky.social "There are protocols to plotting to kill the King, like not talking about killing the King, and certainly not talking about killing the King in the palace..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Nasal Route by Christopher Conscious "missed his mouth; tongue slipped in" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions open on the 1st of October, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC! The max word count per story will be 5,000 words. There will be a 1,000 story cap. Once we reach that number of submissions, the window will close. Link to more information ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

The reviews are in! Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV  reviewed by Duncan Lawie Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Enjoying the Internet Culture Special Issue? Here's some more! Scenes From the Dream Prompt by Isabella G. Mead "she has been stamping all over this once-pristine surface: footprints in the thousands, silvery trash scattered on the aeolian wind." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

"You want to be a universal language. You want to be the scent of a dream slipping through cracks in the stars." This story has me in a chokehold!! Everyone read MR_MR_CENTICORE

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The Internet Culture Special Issue continues! MR_MR_CENTICORE by Micah Giddens "...the California sun is too mean to let you play outside so you stare at Magic Eye books all day until you get good at unfocusing your gaze to uncover hidden realities." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

The Internet Culture Special Issue continues! MR_MR_CENTICORE by Micah Giddens "...the California sun is too mean to let you play outside so you stare at Magic Eye books all day until you get good at unfocusing your gaze to uncover hidden realities." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

New shirt, who dis? Look what I got as an early bday present! Yes @strangehorizons.bsky.social sells merch and also they published my novelette "Mother, Darling" which you should totally read if you want to Feel Things about motherhood and WWI and Neverland. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

The Internet Culture Special Issue is here!

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Come Sell Us Your Dreams by J. P. Babb "You shouldn’t dream sweet if you want to go viral (we mean no offence, but those tend to be cringe); try scary, try strange, try lucid, try stressful" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Come Sell Us Your Dreams by J. P. Babb "You shouldn’t dream sweet if you want to go viral (we mean no offence, but those tend to be cringe); try scary, try strange, try lucid, try stressful" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

You’re the Only One Who Knows  by Adam Coday "and that chair from the Wangs’ old house— that one we once both slept in, plaid and oversized. It’d been duplicated, too!" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Move Fast and Don’t Ask Permission: Techno-Optimism in R.U.R. and Arcane by Claire Jia-Wen Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Let This Vessel Be My Offering  by Joy Donnell art by Romie Stott "emergency landing on troubled waters. Shoreless unrest." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The reviews are in! As If by Isabel Waidner  reviewed by E. C. Barrett Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Sock Drawer Astronomy by Yanqing Yang "Dust rehearses sunlight like a patient babysitter." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

A Tiny™ Concert for the No-Name King by Crowe Powell @bethanypowell.bsky.social "I didn’t know if this was transformation gone too far, or the usual way magic blotted out identity in a monarch so they could truly stand in for their people." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

To the Reader by Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social "his deeds but paper deeds slender as river reeds." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The reviews are in! What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed  reviewed by Cat Fitzpatrick Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

The Deicide by Deborah L. Davitt "Nature, desecrated, refused to yield more than bone" Read the full poem at the link to the latest issue in our bio!