Mental Diplopia
There seems to be a strange new disease spreading around the world. People are getting stuck in the past in mostly happy memories. They are straddling the line between now…
Cat Pictures Please
I don’t want to be evil. I want to be helpful. But knowing the optimal way to be helpful can be very complicated.
20 scary books and horror novels to read this Halloween
Here are 20 horror books from 2023 to read under a blanket at home (or, if you’re really brave, at that abandoned amusement park near the old cemetery that the…
Strange Horizons Palestinian Special
By: Rasha Abdulhadi I wanted this issue to be an opening invitation, an opportunity to introduce and gather people, for us to find each other and hold up mirrors. I…
#ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. {read}
Sultana’s Dream
Sultana’s Dream is a 1905 feminist utopian story written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, a Muslim feminist, writer and social reformer from Bengal.
our opinions are correct Podcast Episode 132: A Sense of Place with Jessica Johns
Sometimes, a story is set in a place that isn’t just a location. It’s a character. How do places come alive?
Unhearable Music: A Sci-Fi Tale
Imagine a future with surgically inserted earbuds and whale concerts. This is a work of fiction — but the technology behind it isn’t too far off {read}
pop culture detective – Solarpunk and How We Escape Dystopia
In this episode we explore a relatively new subgenre of science fiction called Solarpunk, which aims to imagine better, more ecologically harmonious, futures on earth.