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Six Standalone Werewolf Novels to Unleash the Beast Within - Reactor Each book brings something different to the classic werewolf mythos...

Werewolves can be friends and allies, dangerous predators, or folks just trying to survive. Here are six standalone novels that explore very different takes on life as a lyncanthrope...

Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum I know I said romcomantasy.

Who's a big fan of @readingtheend.bsky.social? The whole internet, that's who.

Really pleased Jenny is back at SH with this review on a curious romcomantasy (it's her term, don't @ me).

"Is this a good book? I don’t know. What even does it mean to be good?"

A fascinating conversation about style in SFF from Strange Horizons, between Paul Kincaid (who recently reviewed Whitney French's Syncopation), Dawn Mcdonald and Dan Hartland.

POETRY by Janet McAdams Afterstory Quote Even as the trees were softening, their bark for the hungry to scrape and scrape and spread it on whatever bread they could beg or bake. end Quote 2 March 2026 Strange Horizons

Afterstory
by Janet McAdams @janetthemcadams.bsky.social

"Even as the trees were softening, their bark for the hungry to scrape and scrape and spread it on whatever bread they could beg or bake."

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Good news: my dragon is now on Netgalley!

It’s a different sort of dragon rider novel: one from the dragon’s POV. He’s just here for the free food, he swears.

If you are an ARC-ish sort, there is a Read Now window open through Friday.

Critical Friends Episode 21: On Style Paul Kincaid and Dawn Macdonald join Dan Hartland to discuss style.

"A really pronounced style might feel in the way, but I think that science fiction is such a capacious genre that it has space for a lot of experimentation."

Let's talk more about words! Thanks to @ndbooks.bsky.social and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for work that sparks these sorts of conversation.

Cover of Nick Hubble's Culture Wars in Britain: The Myth of Exceptionalism and the Reality of Division. This in the 'Society Now' series of Emerald Publications. Background red with pattern of black culture mask symbols - titles in black against white circle in middle of cover.

We are getting closer to the 13th May 2026 publication of my book Culture Wars in Britain. I explain how far from being a superficial recent import from the US, culture wars have played a central role in British life since at least the 1910 constitutional crisis. We need to take them seriously (1/3)

I'm so glad and really appreciate your review!

Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions

Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!

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Such a joy to read this brilliant review of my novella in Strange Horizons! 🥹 Also, published in March - timing couldn't be better 🌱🌸

Huge thank you to Nick! It's a real honour to have their eyes on my work. And I'm always so grateful to Dan who's a fantastic editor and a lovely, supportive person.

If you're a Woman in Horror, be it artist, illustrator, author, writer, reviewer, director, WHATEVER-

Say hi and link to your work here!

Let's make a thread of Horror from Women that people can peruse & discover some cool, new stuff

I'll start, in the comments/replies :)
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Such a joy to read this brilliant review of my novella in Strange Horizons! 🥹 Also, published in March - timing couldn't be better 🌱🌸

Huge thank you to Nick! It's a real honour to have their eyes on my work. And I'm always so grateful to Dan who's a fantastic editor and a lovely, supportive person.

The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina When fantasy combines wit, humour, and magic as The Inescapable March does, while refusing the quick fix of happy ever after, it allows us to imagine worlds where life is not just a tedious linear …

Up at SH today: @thehubble101.bsky.social on Hana Carolina's The Inescapable March. They find it an "engaging and emotionally intelligent" fantasy which "combines wit, humour, and magic."

Nick also has Thoughts on contemporary fantasy. That the novella sparks them seems another sign of its quality.

I'm in here!! Let's get it done folks 💪

Critical Friends Episode 21: On Style Paul Kincaid and Dawn Macdonald join Dan Hartland to discuss style.

🚨 SOUND THE PODCAST KLAXON!

A new episode of Critical Friends has just arrived, fresh-faced, in your feeds. Paul Kincaid and @yukondawn.bsky.social talk to me about style: what is it, what place has it taken up in SFF, and why is it so fraught?

Come for Le Guin and Vonnegut, stay for police raids.

We're super excited to share with you all the stunning pieces that we'll be publishing in Issue 6: Craving. These pieces are sharp, tender, strange, hungry, and impossible to forget.

Issue 6 will be out May 1st, and we can't wait for you to read! 🩸

A muted greyscale banner for short story, The Mirror and the Wind by Andrew Senior published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring an ornate mirror on a light coloured wall.

It has been uncharacteristically sunny around the tower today. We're certain that the weather is up to something. We're uncertain whether that something is nefarious. We'll distract ourselves with today's story:

"The Mirror and the Wind" by Andrew Senior

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Left cover of The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip featuring a person sleeping draped over a rock with a black horse in the background. Right REVIEWS Quote The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is by and large concerned with three things—how can imagination set people free, what do people imagine, and how do those imagined things/people/places connect and change throughout space and time? reviewer: Roy Salzman-Cohen 23 February 2026 Strange Horizons

The reviews are in!

The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip 
reviewed by Roy Salzman-Cohen

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#bookreviews #fantasy #patriciaamckillip

Thought-provoking article here. I don't strictly agree with the definition of lit fic, or the lines drawn between that and spec fic. But the conversation about interrogating change and choices and power is great (and timely)

NON-FICTION Quote Every world build makes choices about where agency rested in the great stages of its past, using histories as models and also practicing the historian’s craft: making claims about how the world changes, and who has the power to change it. end Quote Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians by Ada Palmer 23 February 2026 Strange Horizons

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians
by Ada Palmer

"Every world build makes choices about where agency rested in the great stages of its past, using histories as models and also practicing the historian’s craft..."

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Audio book cover for The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen - two siblings in silhouette stand in front of a blue and red aurora with monstrous eyes

Audio book cover for A Million Points of Light by CL Hellisen. A single silhouetted figure stands in front of a strange being of ice and light

My Crossfades duology is now all up on Audible, narrated by the very talented Omari Douglas from Black Doves.

If dark queer fantasy is your jam, then you might like this in your ear holes.

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Snap! Criticism: Okotie and Thien Dan Hartland In a letter on May 14, 1981, Philip K. Dick was characteristically pugnacious: “I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as ‘a story (or nov…

“Okotie arrives at a vision which allows for chaos whilst also arriving at a new clarity through dialog. Is SF equipped to make the formal innovations necessary to survive into the futures it foresees?”

Kudos to @melvillehouse.bsky.social for publishing work like Okotie’s. We need it to think with

Snap! Criticism: Okotie and Thien Dan Hartland In a letter on May 14, 1981, Philip K. Dick was characteristically pugnacious: “I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as ‘a story (or nov…

What future for the novel of the future? What are the bits of SF that might enable it to persist, or help the novel itself survive? How might writers reuse them?

My latest Snap! column for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org: “SF can formally as well as intellectually contribute to the effort of revival.”

Terrible Bosses, Evil Corporations, and Paperclip Maximizers: Dan Davies’ The Unaccountability Machine - Reactor Exploring broken systems, and why and how people seek to avoid accountability, even when it also involves avoiding power and agency.

@r-emrys.bsky.social digs into Dan Davies' "The Accountability Machine": a brilliant, irreverent book about how and why corporations and institutions make terrible decisions, avoid accountability, and consistently produce inhuman results.

The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip In “What Inspires Me,” Patricia A. McKillip’s WisCon 2004 Guest of Honor speech, and penultimate entry in The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, the award-winning fantasy writer said: “What I set out …

First SH review of the week is from the always good @rtbm.bsky.social, on The Essential Patricia A. McKillip.

"As far as themes, a prominent one is women who are trapped by men. A lot of McKillip’s work in general ends happily; but it’s the men who are willing to reconsider who find happy endings."

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An upcoming publisher closure means that 3 of my books are now currently unavailable. The best way to support me rn is to get Cosmic Dykes or Bound In flesh from ghoulish.rip , lil guts via lil ghosts, or directly thru ko-fi.com/lormaggot 💖

The focus image is a film stripe featuring stills from the 1964 movie The Masque of the Red Death.

Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the context in which they were released. For the latest instalment in his series, he's looking back at Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death from 1964.

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Left cover of Into the Sun by C.F. Ramuz, translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan featuring a sun crudely drawn with black marker. Right REVIEWS Quote In this translation, Ramuz’s sentences have the beauty of a beam of sunlight through swirling dust—simple, elegant, illuminating the structure of the invisible. Repeatedly he invokes a mirrored world, in which constructions partner natural objects, and the mind reconstitutes reality in its own image. reviewer: Dawn Macdonald 16 February 2026 Strange Horizons

The reviews are in!

Into the Sun by C.F. Ramuz, translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan
reviewed by Dawn Macdonald

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On March 31, Hedone Books will be closing.

After March 31, How to Survive This Fairytale will not be available for purchase.

Thread. 🧵

A muted greyscale banner for poem, peachpit cantrip by Kristen Reece published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring two peaches, one cut and the other whole, on a dark background.

The fruit that grows in the tower garden has gained the ability to speak. They speak in riddles. We're not certain whether they're safe to eat. For now, we tend them & wait. We consume poetry instead, just like this...

"peachpit cantrip" by Kristen Reece

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