Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

The Language of Liars, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom 978-1-25040-533-3, $24.99, 176pp, hc) April 2026. The Language of Liars opens with a young linguist’s musings on all the different words for “doubt” tha…

Before she died, my mother pinned a new verse to the family song, which caused some consternation among the elders who were left. No one had added anything new for several generations; we’d been able ...

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

They send you down into the swamps of Atchafalaya to die with nothing between your teeth but contract ink and shame. There’s a lot of misery to sow across the continent, after all, and no room for a…

In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Natasha King's 'Aquarium for Lost Souls' read by Jenna Hanchey. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

AUGUR ISSUE 8.3What do you desire from the natural world? For millions of years, we’ve been shaped and reshaped by the environment around us. If technology has the power to mimic lush lands and blue w...

1. “The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet”, Carolyn Zhao Got sucked in by this one’s sort-of free-associating whimsy, its deceptively naif je-ne-sais-quoi....

They send you down into the swamps of Atchafalaya to die with nothing between your teeth but contract ink and shame. There’s a lot of misery to sow across the continent, after all, and no room for a r...

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

I crawl out of the persimmon, and it isn’t pretty. A grown woman unfolding from a fruit that could fit into your hand: sinew restringing...

Here at Strange Horizons, we publish loads of wonderful different kinds of content every year, from short fiction to poetry and from reviews to criticism essays (not to mention podcasts, selfishly)…

The aquarium is different every time I die. Exhibits reshuffling like a deck of cards. The blood loss, though, that’s reliable.

When it comes to stories inspired by historical settings, I’m always eager to know more about the real places/people behind them. What real places inspired the impossibly spectacular Daguanyu…

Strange Horizons 9/16/24, 10/7/24, 10/14/24 F&SF Summer ’24 Kaleidotrope Autumn ’24 Strange Horizons has been firing on all cylinders lately, as with September’s “A War of Words” by Marie Brenn…

I crawl out of the persimmon, and it isn’t pretty. A grown woman unfolding from a fruit that could fit into your hand: sinew restringing...

Thoughts on flipping from "TV brain" to "prose brain" when writing fiction

There are a near-infinite number of strange and marvelous worlds in this Universe, and in all of them there are Cats. I see that you are an ordinary person and not a Cat; thus, I can ascertain that yo...

Fiction for the 21st Century!