Strange Horizons

A weekly web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction.

Strange Horizons, October 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ December 31, 2007

Strange Horizons brought five stories in October, 2007. The opening one, “Catherine and the Satyr” by Theodora Goss, is a tragedy about being trapped. The titular woman—the wife of Byron—is trapped in a marriage with a man who has become distracted by other women. There are ways for her to find a kind of freedom; […]

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Strange Horizons, September 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ November 12, 2007

In September, Strange Horizons offered four quite different stories.
I expect that some people will find the first, “All Kinds of Reasons” by Katherine Maclaine, a difficult read. Set in a near future where it is possible to predict the genetic deformities an embryo will possess, it focuses on two hopeful parents, Tony and Rhia. The […]

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Strange Horizons, August 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ October 14, 2007

“Artifice and Intelligence” by Tim Pratt in Strange Horizons is a quirky approach to the artificial intelligence motif. “The vast network of Indian tech support call centers and their deep data banks” have awakened, announcing their sentience and their name: Saraswati. The story follows three people who have been affected by this: Pramesh, who must […]

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Strange Horizons, July 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ October 1, 2007

For July, Strange Horizons offered five fantastical stories of varying themes.
In “Brazos” by Jerome Stueart, a god approaches the human narrator with a proposition of marriage between his son, the Brazos River, and the narrator’s daughter. But the narrator, who has learned the hard realities of love after two divorces, is not willing […]

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