The reviews are in! Dooneen by Keith Ridgway  reviewed by Paul Kincaid Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

NEW PODCAST ALERT! Critical Friends Episode 28: On Literary SFF! Ryan Elliott and Roseanna Pendlebury have recently reviewed some works on the Booker Prize shortlist, so they join Dan Hartland to discuss literary SFF. What is it and what is it good for? Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

How to Cook for an Alien Tourist by Lee Hallison @leeh70.bsky.social "Turn on the stove. See it startle." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

138 Express Inbound by Caleb Astey "Trunks of belongings provide awkwardly mobile seating, forcing people to stand up and shift the entirety of their possessions every few minutes as they make their way up to the transfer counter." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Fable No. 4 — Goliath Feels by Noah Drauschak art by Romie Stott @romiesays.bsky.social "Forgive me, someone." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

We are honoured to receive this award for a second time! Thank you everyone who voted for us and everyone who reads and submits to Strange Horizons! Congratulations to all the award recipients!

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Finally, the #2026IgnyteAwards Community Award recognizes Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre Congratulations @strangehorizons.bsky.social who also won the inaugural award in this category in 2020.

Why you fucked Mothman by Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social "his wildfire eyes saw the world burning and he could do nothing but tell you" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now! Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... (The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)

“I Must Put Things in My Mouth”: Loving Trans Children in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites by Franklin Mitchell "Butler’s hybrid future disrupts familiar timelines of aging and reproduction. In doing so, it opens up liberatory possibilities... Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Witnesses by Lesley Hart Gunn art by Romie Stott @romiesays.bsky.social "watching the heart monitor pulse while we dine on the lingering soul of surf and turf." 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! 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...