Quick Sips - Strange Horizons 06/01/2020 & 06/08/2020

Did you know that the 2021 Strange Horizons Fund Drive is going on now? Have you backed it yet? I'll be covering the content of the special fund drive issue later (hopefully when all the content has been released), but in the mean time there's still lots of regularly scheduled Strange Horizons stories and poetry and nonfiction to read. I'm here looking at the first two issues of the month's fiction and poetry. And it's some strange, moving, wonderful work that is formally challenging but thematically rewarding. It's sharp and emotional and just what I've come to expect from the publication. So yeah, let's get to the reviews!

Quick Sips - Strange Horizons 01/20/2020 & 01/27/2020

Art by Deoxy Diamond

Strange Horizons closes out January with two more issues, including two poems and a novelette. The poems are well paired, about romance mixing with some certain darker elements, and both do a great job of exploring the feelings caught up in the attraction between two people. The novelette...well, it's an amazing work of dark fantasy/horror and I very much recommend it, but definitely be aware of the content warnings because it is also a very difficult story in many ways. Challenging and responsible, in my opinion, but certainly not light or easy. So let's get to the reviews!

Quick Sips - Uncanny #11 (July Stuff)

A new issue of Uncanny Magazine is out and for July it means three new stories and a new poem, as well as some nonfiction and a reprint story that I won’t be looking at but which I encourage everyone to check out. And this month the stories seem linked to me be a focus on fate. About fighting against the circumstances of birth that these characters can’t control. Being born into a dangerous family, or being born a ship without the ability to travel through space, or being born to parents who can write attributes into your skin. These tales look at the injustice of birth and the ways that people seek to change their fates and, perhaps failing that, how they hope to save others from the same cycle, from the same damning force. So let’s get to those reviews!

Art by Javier Caparo