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Isaac by Allee Mead

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Published: April 24, 2026 12:00

Isaac is a hidden gem of a novella.

Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters edited by Randy Brown

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Published: April 22, 2026 12:00

It is flyover country, this place we call home.

Krackle’s Last Movie by Chelsea Sutton

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Published: April 20, 2026 11:59

This novella is at its most harrowing when it focuses on the pathologisation of “otherness.”

Refuse

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Published: April 20, 2026 11:15

Twenty-eight years of casting away / Until the earth beneath crumbled

Underneath the Underneath

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Published: April 20, 2026 11:15

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 through those thin layers of membrane. How empty. Dragons…

The Shut-in on the 55th Floor

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Published: April 20, 2026 11:15

his grungy skin nonetheless sequined with embedded nanocircuit sensors

Podcast: Four Steps to Hunt a God

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Published: April 20, 2026 11:15

In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Athar Fikry's 'Four Steps to Hunt a God' read by Emmie Christie. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠

Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

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Published: April 17, 2026 12:00

Climate Imagination is its own eclectic assortment of puzzle pieces.

Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel

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Published: April 15, 2026 12:00

These poems often read as allegory, with a fair amount of absurdity.

The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey

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Published: April 13, 2026 11:50

On the surface, this series seems like the typical “fight the oppressors” story. But that’s not the story we get here.

laurels

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Published: April 13, 2026 11:15

...fury tongued, we lash the breeze with our foxing song

Dead City Dreaming

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Published: April 13, 2026 10:15

From my broken streets and crumbling towers; Sterilized my self-haunted hospitals

Skiinfolk

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Published: April 13, 2026 09:15

Every single time, the Skiin™ gave me a rash. I scratched. I scratched so deeply that I clawed through the aug and into my own skin and then I tore out chunks of that too.

The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older

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Published: April 10, 2026 12:00

Older’s worldbuilding for this series continues to enthral.

When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee

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Published: April 8, 2026 12:00

“Dangerous” is a good word to describe the plot and atmosphere of this novel.

Critical Friends Episode 22: Romancing The Genre

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Published: April 6, 2026 18:35

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Jenny Hamilton and Anushree Nande join Dan Hartland to discuss romance and romantasy.

Code Blue

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Published: April 6, 2026 18:35

In 2050—dreams and cityscapes wear the same exoskin.

Many of you have been asking what happens when an angel dies

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Published: April 6, 2026 18:35

On the street, you will begin to see the faces of the dead in those of complete strangers.

Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre by Joy Sanchez-Taylor

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Published: April 6, 2026 18:35

I struggled to process the full implications of this volume's title even after reading the book.

The Houses of the Stars in Heaven

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Published: April 6, 2026 18:35

Fakafuumaka said, “Our pathfinding instruments are mighty. As you sail the oceans, so we sail the space between stars."

The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter by Brionni Nwosu

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Published: April 3, 2026 12:00

With this book, Nwusu handles the popular trope of the “deal with the devil.”

An STD could save your (chest)nuts

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Published: April 3, 2026 10:55

The process of giving a fungus an STD (on purpose) to save your chest(nuts) works like this: (1) you have a tree dying from chestnut blight; (2) you introduce a second strain of chestnut blight that carries the STD; (3) the two fungal strains engage…

Fungus, Climate Change, and You: Facts and Speculative Fiction

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Published: April 2, 2026 10:55

If and when the climate continues to warm, fungi are likely to become more prevalent in our daily lives, and with familiarity will come more stories. Hopefully, unlike in Hodgson’s “The Voice in the Night”, we can right our climate-catastrophe-bound ship…

Make-Believe and Artifice by Rose Biggin

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Published: April 1, 2026 12:00

While it’s easy to be swept up in the delight of these stories, their sweetness and light belie Biggin’s fundamental skill.

Utopian Eukaryotes: Revisiting the jahSepp from Star Trek: Discovery

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Published: April 1, 2026 10:55

While it played with the backstories of known characters and tweaked the designs of certain species (both highly polarizing among fans), Discovery also brought us new technology and new aliens, including the first sentient fungal species in canon. The…