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How thrilling is this! A glowing review of I Dream of Theresa May in the London Evening Standard:
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"There’s honestly not a weak link in this hilarious and heart-breaking production"
www.standard.co.uk/culture/thea...
On until November 29th @taratheatre.com :
taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
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"There’s honestly not a weak link in this hilarious and heart-breaking production"
www.standard.co.uk/culture/thea...
On until November 29th @taratheatre.com :
taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
I Dream of Theresa May: an electric black comedy about the hostile environment
The former Home Secretary torments and guides a queer Indian immigrant as he desperately seeks settled status
www.standard.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
How thrilling is this! A glowing review of I Dream of Theresa May in the London Evening Standard:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"There’s honestly not a weak link in this hilarious and heart-breaking production"
www.standard.co.uk/culture/thea...
On until November 29th @taratheatre.com :
taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"There’s honestly not a weak link in this hilarious and heart-breaking production"
www.standard.co.uk/culture/thea...
On until November 29th @taratheatre.com :
taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
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🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social.
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
strangehorizons.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social.
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
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HERE IT IS!!!!!
H Is For Hawk - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
HERE IT IS!!!!!
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If you can, please donate to help one of our regular contributors in this time of need.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
www.gofundme.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you can, please donate to help one of our regular contributors in this time of need.
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JUSTICE AND BALANCE BRIEFLY RESTORED TO THE LAND
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
JUSTICE AND BALANCE BRIEFLY RESTORED TO THE LAND
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Also, don't miss Vajra's incredibly powerful acceptance speech
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Also, don't miss Vajra's incredibly powerful acceptance speech
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
(fitting given how many of Le Guin's speeches were and are so unforgettable):
youtu.be/Y5h5ZDjWPTc?...
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
September 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
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🎧 New Critical Friends for your listening devices!
This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time.
How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?
This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time.
How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?
Critical Friends Episode 15: On Time-Pass
Dan Hartland is joined by Sneha Pathak and Tansy Gardam to discuss the kinds of text which many don’t find worthy of criticism at all.
www.strangehorizons.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🎧 New Critical Friends for your listening devices!
This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time.
How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?
This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time.
How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?
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Wednesday's SH review is from Sneha Pathak, on @blaft.bsky.social's Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction. This is a really interesting piece on a super-valuable collection, which "plays an important role in bringing more readers to the rich and varied world of purely entertaining, juicy pulp fiction."
The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Vishwambhari S. Parmar
Parmar, who has translated writings by various authors, of various lengths, and belonging to different sub-genres, giving a detailed picture of the pulp writing scene, both as it was and as it has …
strangehorizons.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Wednesday's SH review is from Sneha Pathak, on @blaft.bsky.social's Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction. This is a really interesting piece on a super-valuable collection, which "plays an important role in bringing more readers to the rich and varied world of purely entertaining, juicy pulp fiction."
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Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
August 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
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Apropos of nothing, John Reider's book "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" is a great, accessible look at science fiction's infatuation with colonialism, manifest destiny, and the idea of "the frontier".
www.weslpress.org/978081956874...
www.weslpress.org/978081956874...
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction – Wesleyan University Press
Groundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialismThis is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science ficti...
www.weslpress.org
August 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Apropos of nothing, John Reider's book "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" is a great, accessible look at science fiction's infatuation with colonialism, manifest destiny, and the idea of "the frontier".
www.weslpress.org/978081956874...
www.weslpress.org/978081956874...
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☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN
In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special.
What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad!
⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com
In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special.
What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad!
⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com
August 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN
In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special.
What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad!
⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com
In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special.
What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad!
⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com
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& enabling this whole situation is British bureaucracy's weird fetish for the abstract thought experiment over what real people actually experience, where the powerful people who make decisions wilfully pretend not to know anything by silencing & excluding anyone w/ any skin in the game.
April 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
& enabling this whole situation is British bureaucracy's weird fetish for the abstract thought experiment over what real people actually experience, where the powerful people who make decisions wilfully pretend not to know anything by silencing & excluding anyone w/ any skin in the game.
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At this point it feels so insufficient & stating the obvious to keep pointing out that appeals to "biology" to dictate who should have rights & who shouldn't is fascist, that policing gender only props up patriarchy, etc. but I guess we have to keep loudly doing that (& hopefully not only that).
April 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
At this point it feels so insufficient & stating the obvious to keep pointing out that appeals to "biology" to dictate who should have rights & who shouldn't is fascist, that policing gender only props up patriarchy, etc. but I guess we have to keep loudly doing that (& hopefully not only that).
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A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
April 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
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Online Talk: "Feminist Struggles and Fairy Tales: Writing Kunhuthee" by Dr. J Devika
ACLiSA Speaker Series: Author talks
26 April 2025
8.30 p.m. IST
To register, please scan the QR Code on the poster or follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpT...
Website: aclisa.in/2025/04/04/a...
ACLiSA Speaker Series: Author talks
26 April 2025
8.30 p.m. IST
To register, please scan the QR Code on the poster or follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpT...
Website: aclisa.in/2025/04/04/a...
April 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Online Talk: "Feminist Struggles and Fairy Tales: Writing Kunhuthee" by Dr. J Devika
ACLiSA Speaker Series: Author talks
26 April 2025
8.30 p.m. IST
To register, please scan the QR Code on the poster or follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpT...
Website: aclisa.in/2025/04/04/a...
ACLiSA Speaker Series: Author talks
26 April 2025
8.30 p.m. IST
To register, please scan the QR Code on the poster or follow this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1LpT...
Website: aclisa.in/2025/04/04/a...
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Legendary hater Charles Darwin
February 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Legendary hater Charles Darwin
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If you are interested in going #BeyondtheSecretGarden but don’t know where to start, check out this book pack created by @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social
⚡️1/2 In praise of the new Beyond The Secret Garden title by @darrenchetty.bsky.social & @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social published by @engmediacentre.bsky.social , we’ve worked with the authors to create a brand new book pack:
www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...
February 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you are interested in going #BeyondtheSecretGarden but don’t know where to start, check out this book pack created by @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social
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For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.
dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”
munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”
mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
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It’s always a pleasure to read Paul Kincaid.
The subtle, wry confidence. The distillation of context that’s important to those of us who don’t know the whole history. Opinion that’s rooted in criticism and history—not just to have a take on the subject.
The subtle, wry confidence. The distillation of context that’s important to those of us who don’t know the whole history. Opinion that’s rooted in criticism and history—not just to have a take on the subject.
Paul is a clear-sighted historian of SF, and offers sympathetic details of one of the genre's banner episodes. "The conceptual journey on which Dangerous Visions takes its readers [is] played out in the pages of the book itself."
His Colourfields is out soon from @briardenebooks.bsky.social.
His Colourfields is out soon from @briardenebooks.bsky.social.
Who Is In Danger?
Believe me, it was obvious from the get-go who was endangered by 1967’s Dangerous Visions.
strangehorizons.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It’s always a pleasure to read Paul Kincaid.
The subtle, wry confidence. The distillation of context that’s important to those of us who don’t know the whole history. Opinion that’s rooted in criticism and history—not just to have a take on the subject.
The subtle, wry confidence. The distillation of context that’s important to those of us who don’t know the whole history. Opinion that’s rooted in criticism and history—not just to have a take on the subject.
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CfP the work of Frances Hardinge 11-12 July 2026.
The conference welcomes academic paper proposals, panel discussion topics; art and craft workshops or posters; fan art.
Closing date 30 September 2025. 1/2
The Submission Form: eventbrite.co.uk/e/frances-ha...
The conference welcomes academic paper proposals, panel discussion topics; art and craft workshops or posters; fan art.
Closing date 30 September 2025. 1/2
The Submission Form: eventbrite.co.uk/e/frances-ha...
Frances Hardinge Conference
Frances `Hardinge has written eleven acclaimed novels (and rising). This is a weekend dedicated to discussing her work.
eventbrite.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
CfP the work of Frances Hardinge 11-12 July 2026.
The conference welcomes academic paper proposals, panel discussion topics; art and craft workshops or posters; fan art.
Closing date 30 September 2025. 1/2
The Submission Form: eventbrite.co.uk/e/frances-ha...
The conference welcomes academic paper proposals, panel discussion topics; art and craft workshops or posters; fan art.
Closing date 30 September 2025. 1/2
The Submission Form: eventbrite.co.uk/e/frances-ha...
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It's here! The @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special: one editorial, five critical essays, three poems, one podcast, three special reviews.
We'll be publishing one essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle.
Shall we go on a tour? Let's.
We'll be publishing one essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle.
Shall we go on a tour? Let's.
27 January 2025
Visit the post for more.
strangehorizons.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's here! The @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special: one editorial, five critical essays, three poems, one podcast, three special reviews.
We'll be publishing one essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle.
Shall we go on a tour? Let's.
We'll be publishing one essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle.
Shall we go on a tour? Let's.
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The next Briardene Book is Colourfields by Paul Kincaid, out in April! An exploration of SF as seen by critics, historians, and biographers, you can pre-order through our shop now: briardenebooks.uk/shop/
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The next Briardene Book is Colourfields by Paul Kincaid, out in April! An exploration of SF as seen by critics, historians, and biographers, you can pre-order through our shop now: briardenebooks.uk/shop/
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Happy new year! RP to win a copy of 'Beyond the Secret Garden' by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands O’Connor. Trace how Black & racially minoritised characters have been represented in ‘the secret garden’ of British children’s literature from its earliest stages.
January 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Happy new year! RP to win a copy of 'Beyond the Secret Garden' by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands O’Connor. Trace how Black & racially minoritised characters have been represented in ‘the secret garden’ of British children’s literature from its earliest stages.