@strangehorizons.bsky.social
Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialHow to Cook for an Alien Tourist
by Lee Hallison @leeh70.bsky.social
"Turn on the stove. See it startle."
@strangehorizons.bsky.social138 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."
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialFable No. 4 — Goliath Feels
by Noah Drauschak
art by Romie Stott @romiesays.bsky.social
"Forgive me, someone."
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialWe 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!
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialWhy you fucked Mothman
by Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social
"his wildfire eyes saw the world burning and he
could do nothing but tell you"
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialStrange 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.)
@strangehorizons.bsky.social“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...
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialWitnesses
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."
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialReposted by @strangehorizons.bsky.socialStrange 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 ⬇️
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@strangehorizons.bsky.socialA Ruin, Great and Free by Cadwell Turnbull
reviewed by Helena Ramsaroop @hramsaroop.bsky.social
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialKhauf
reviewed by Amritesh Mukherjee
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialThe reviews are in!
Xicanxfuturism: Codex 1 edited by Scott Russell Duncan
reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi @hararereview.com
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialWinston 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."
@jennymliu.bsky.socialReposted by @strangehorizons.bsky.socialI 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.bsky.socialmy 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."
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialIyá 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."
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialMay We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
reviewed by Roseanna Pendlebury
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialThe Vivisectors by Missouri Williams
reviewed by Chelsea Davis
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialThe End of Everything by M. John Harrison
reviewed by Ryan Elliott
@strangehorizons.bsky.socialTo 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."
