Hana Carolina

Left cover of The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina featuring a gold feathered owl in front of an ornate almond shaped decoration. Right REVIEWS Quote I don’t want to disavow fantasy completely, either, because when it 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 repetition of nasty, brutish, and short days until we die. reviewer: Nick Hubble 2 March 2026 Strange Horizons

The reviews are in!

The Inescapable March by Hana Carolina 
reviewed by Nick Hubble

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

Thanks to @johncoxon.bsky.social of @octothorpecast.bsky.social for his contribution at the close of the latest podcast.

In our last episode, @tristanbeiter.bsky.social and co discussed the space for criticism in fandom. I was curious for a second opinion. Critical Friends: it's for conversation.

Book 6

A change of pace with a bit of time travel romcom - Catriona Silvey's Love & Other Paradoxes.

Although it fulfils all the notes of a romcom, there's a definite philosophical underpinning to the story which added depth and wit to the breezy lightness.

Critical Friends The Strange Horizons SF/F Criticism Podcast

NEW PODCAST ALERT!

This week we have a new episode of Critical Friends for you!

This time out Dan Hartland discusses style in SFF with Paul Kincaid and Dawn Macdonald!

What do you think about style? Why does SFF have such a fraught relationship with it?

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Book cover with title Multitude by Marie Vibbert image of tentacles rising from a calm sea with stars behind small print cover design by Mikio Murakami Silent Q Design art by Robert CarterCracked Hat Illustration

Cover Reveal!!  Pre-order my first-contact story about empathy, hope, and carnivorous squid, Multitude here: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/multitude?_pos=1&_psq=mult&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Reminder that we're running another microfiction contest inspired by @reasie.bsky.social's upcoming deep sea sci-fi MULTITUDE! Deadline is next Monday, March 9th! 🗓️ 🦑

Very excited and honored!

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Delighted to announce the exciting new speculative novella by Seb Doubinsky, The Machine, for the award-winning Luna Novella 2027! Luna Press has acquired EWR from Matt Bialer, of New York Sanford J. Greenburger Associates www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/unveili... @sebdoubinsky.bsky.social ❤️

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If you're looking for dark fantasy with

*warring Mage Houses
*monstrous god-kings from another realm
*queer disasters not exactly eating each other alive
*traumatised siblings and dysfunctional family
*bringing back the dead
*people making terrible life choices

then son I have you covered

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)