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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can’t help but notice that Dan has buried the lede a bit here (everyone say “congratulations, Dan”)

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"This is not dream logic, not surrealism nor magic realism. This is not the old weird or the new... Even the unbroken worlds are fragile, anxious, surveilled, itchy" #10YearsAgo @vajra.me on Kuzhali Manickavel strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Marginalia: You Spin Me Right Round

I'm going to talk a little bit about the work of Kuzhali Manickavel.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's been 10 days since we began the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive! So far, we've raised 75% of our base goal of $22K, which will allow us to continue existing in 2027. We would love to get there, and beyond, so we can raise our writers' pay. To help us: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Strange Horizons was the first magazine I ever submitted to as a teenager (and received a kind rejection). It was one of the first sff magazines to feel like a platform that welcomed international writers. I've read them, been published by them, written criticism for them. Help keep the lights on:

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

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Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This thing is now out in the world! @drmrb.bsky.social & I wrote a book; I'm going through cycles of "literary masterpiece" and "wait, this is not academic at all, it's a stack of bear puns in a duffle coat". If either of those appeals to you, it's out/pre-orderable depending on where you are.

Book cover art featuring a slightly squished red hat on a white background, for the book "Please Look After This Bear: How Paddington Became British" by Melanie Ramdarshan Bold and Aishwarya Subramanian.

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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The Bandigoat lives! 7 tales of weird fiction & horror by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social, @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, Jugal Mody, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Lungmying Lepcha, and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan www.blaft.com/products/ban...

Bandigoat -- a glowing extradimensional rat-goat hybrid on a cloudy black background

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is really excellent. What I really appreciate about Zach Gillan's writing is how ecumenical and wide-ranging it is. This piece demonstrates that well, pointing toward some interesting intersections of affect, reading strategies, and genre expectations.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special! 💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*. 📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.

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26 January 2026

Welcome to the annual Strange Horizons criticism special!

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

How thrilling is this! A glowing review of I Dream of Theresa May in the London Evening Standard: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "There’s honestly not a weak link in this hilarious and heart-breaking production" www.standard.co.uk/culture/thea... On until November 29th @taratheatre.com : taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...

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I Dream of Theresa May: an electric black comedy about the hostile environment

The former Home Secretary torments and guides a queer Indian immigrant as he desperately seeks settled status

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social. On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)

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Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully

Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If you can, please donate to help one of our regular contributors in this time of need.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

JUSTICE AND BALANCE BRIEFLY RESTORED TO THE LAND

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Also, don't miss Vajra's incredibly powerful acceptance speech (fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable): youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...

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2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🎧 New Critical Friends for your listening devices! This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time. How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?

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Critical Friends Episode 15: On Time-Pass

Dan Hartland is joined by Sneha Pathak and Tansy Gardam to discuss the kinds of text which many don’t find worthy of criticism at all.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Wednesday's SH review is from Sneha Pathak, on @blaft.bsky.social's Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction. This is a really interesting piece on a super-valuable collection, which "plays an important role in bringing more readers to the rich and varied world of purely entertaining, juicy pulp fiction."

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The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Vishwambhari S. Parmar

Parmar, who has translated writings by various authors, of various lengths, and belonging to different sub-genres, giving a detailed picture of the pulp writing scene, both as it was and as it has …

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 21/08/2025

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Apropos of nothing, John Reider's book "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" is a great, accessible look at science fiction's infatuation with colonialism, manifest destiny, and the idea of "the frontier". www.weslpress.org/978081956874...

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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction – Wesleyan University Press

Groundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialismThis is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science ficti...

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special. What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad! ⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com

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Taylor Driggers(-McDowall) @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

& enabling this whole situation is British bureaucracy's weird fetish for the abstract thought experiment over what real people actually experience, where the powerful people who make decisions wilfully pretend not to know anything by silencing & excluding anyone w/ any skin in the game.

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Taylor Driggers(-McDowall) @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

At this point it feels so insufficient & stating the obvious to keep pointing out that appeals to "biology" to dictate who should have rights & who shouldn't is fascist, that policing gender only props up patriarchy, etc. but I guess we have to keep loudly doing that (& hopefully not only that).

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

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International Research Society for Children’s Literature @irscl.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Online Talk: "Feminist Struggles and Fairy Tales: Writing Kunhuthee" by Dr. J Devika ACLiSA Speaker Series: Author talks 26 April 2025 8.30 p.m. IST To register, please scan the QR Code on the poster or follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpT... Website: aclisa.in/2025/04/04/a...

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin from @lettersofnote:

I loathe, I abhor the sea and all ships which sail on it. --Charles Darwin to his sister, 4 Aug 1836

I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before -- Charles Darwin to William Fox 24 Oct 1852

I am very tired, very stomachy and hate nearly the whole world. -- Charles Darwin to Thomas Haxley 10 September 1860

I am poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything -- Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell 1 Oct 1861

I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees. -- Charles Darwin to John Lubbock 3 Sept 1862

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Professor Karen Sands-O’Connor @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If you are interested in going #BeyondtheSecretGarden but don’t know where to start, check out this book pack created by @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources. On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names. dan rigiššu “loud is his bark” munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe” mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 27/01/2025

It’s always a pleasure to read Paul Kincaid. The subtle, wry confidence. The distillation of context that’s important to those of us who don’t know the whole history. Opinion that’s rooted in criticism and history—not just to have a take on the subject.

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Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

CfP the work of Frances Hardinge 11-12 July 2026. The conference welcomes academic paper proposals, panel discussion topics; art and craft workshops or posters; fan art. Closing date 30 September 2025. 1/2 The Submission Form: eventbrite.co.uk/e/frances-ha...

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Frances Hardinge Conference

Frances `Hardinge has written eleven acclaimed novels (and rising). This is a weekend dedicated to discussing her work.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's here! The @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special: one editorial, five critical essays, three poems, one podcast, three special reviews. We'll be publishing one essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle. Shall we go on a tour? Let's.

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27 January 2025

Visit the post for more.

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Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The next Briardene Book is Colourfields by Paul Kincaid, out in April! An exploration of SF as seen by critics, historians, and biographers, you can pre-order through our shop now: briardenebooks.uk/shop/

The cover of Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid. A prismatic grid of overlapping colours with the text in a white sans serif font.

Praise for Colourfields by Paul Kincaid from Nina Allan: “Why is it that we are drawn again and again to theorise, proselytise and re-invent the perennial arguments about science fiction? Paul Kincaid is here to help us find out. This is a fascinating and essential volume that every fan and critic will want to read.”

Praise for Colourfields by Paul Kincaid's from Paul March-Russell, editor of Foundation: “The clarity of Kincaid's thought, allied to the precision of his prose, has made him one of the central voices of science fiction criticism … Kincaid is always authoritative without being pompous, generous without being sentimental. Read this latest collection and then read everything else.”

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UKLA @uklitassociation.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Happy new year! RP to win a copy of 'Beyond the Secret Garden' by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands O’Connor. Trace how Black & racially minoritised characters have been represented in ‘the secret garden’ of British children’s literature from its earliest stages.

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 05/01/2025

New ARB feature: our "Notable Criticism" of 2024. We painfully narrowed down a huge list of great reviews, essays, & other writing, looking for work speculative criticism that represents and enhances the field. Here are 10 articles we think you should read: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/05/a...

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ARB’s 2024 Notable Criticism

For our year-end reflections, we’re trying something new. When we asked our contributors to suggest titles for ARB’s 2024 Notable Books, we also asked them to send us their favorite critical works …

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The @strangehorizons.bsky.social Reviews gang is back tomorrow with our annual three-part Year In Review: across Monday, Wednesday, and Friday the lion’s share of our reviewers will be offering up their views on the year just gone and its various SFFnal offerings. Some great picks and reflections.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Why this show doesn’t get talked about as one of the great animated shows of its time, I will never understand.

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the lehr witch project @amandalehr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

happy new year may we all clear “about average”

After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
by Robert Hass

New Year’s morning —
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For all the party poopers out there. Don't stop talking about violence. Don't stop talking about Palestine. About freedom for all oppressed & colonized peoples. Whenever, wherever, however. #FreePalestine #KilljoyTruths #SilenceAboutViolenceisViolence feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/party-poop...

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Party Poopers

Or why we need to talk about the violence happening here

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I have a review up at Strange Horizons (scream)! It’s a really fantastic novel I’ve not seen discussed nearly enough, so it was great to have a chance to talk about it. You can read it here: strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...

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In Universes by Emet North

What emerges from this multiversal narrative is a deep, compelling portrait of a flawed, hurting character.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Uh, right. Is there a solution for publishers (and writers) who don't want their content scraped by AI at all? And where and when did I give permission for my writing for Prospect to be used like this, exactly?

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Ari Jerrems @arijerrems.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Working on critical border studies starter pack for @acbsnetwork.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

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Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Me, talking about quest narratives and what they do to space? Unheard of. @drmrb.bsky.social and I had some thoughts on Paddington in Peru: theconversation.com/peru-in-padd...

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