[On May 10, 2021 Strange Horizons officially expressed its political support for Palestinian solidarity. The views of Tangent Online reviewers are not necessarily those of Strange Horizons. Fiction critiqued at Tangent Online is, as much as is humanly possible, without prejudice and based solely on artistic merit.] Strange Horizons, September 2, 9, &16, 2024 “Eyeteeth” …
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Read More...Diabolical Plots #115, September 2024 “Letters From Mt. Monroe Elementary, Third Grade” by Sarah Pauling “Batter and Pearl” by Steph Kwiatkowski
Read More...Clarkesworld #216, September 2024 “The Music Must Always Play” by Marissa Lingen “Broken” by Laura Williams McCaffrey “The Children I Gave You, Oxalaia” by Cirilo Lemos “A Theory of Missing Affections” by Renan Bernardo “Fish Fear Me, You Need Me” by Tiffany Xue “How to Remember Perfectly” by Eric Schwitzgebel “Those Who Remember the World” …
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Read More...Apex #146, September/October 2024 “Kizimbani” by Eugen Bacon and Clare E. Rhoden “And Someone Has to Do It” by Koji A Dae “A Tapestry of Dreams” by Victor Forna “What Good Daughters Do” by Tia Tashiro “The Price of Moss” by Akis Linardos “The Eight Things You’ll Never Be Now That You’re Slowly Turning Into …
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Read More...“The Black Museum. A Repository of Death. Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects . . . all are touched by murder.” The Black Museum (1952) aired “The Pink Powder Puff” (in the United States and as near as historians can …
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Read More...Flash Fiction Online #132, September 2024 “Tornado Breakers Don’t Cry” by Stefan Alcalá Slater “The Hanging of Billy Crabtree” by H. A. Eugene “Nosebleed Weather” by Marilyn Hope (reprint, not reviewed) “To Harvest a Cloud” by Rich Larson “The Ruby Level” by L. L. Madrid
Read More...Forgotten Lore Two: A Cry of Hounds edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (NeoParadoxa, August 2024, pb, 299 pp.) “The Night of the Howling Wind” by Ef Deal “The Adventure of the Exploding Airship” by John L. French “A Grecian Pawse” by Doc Coleman “The Vampire of Rannoch Moor” by David Lee Summers “Amber Waves of Bane” …
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Read More...The Whisperer (1951) aired “Woman on Ice” on September 9, 1951 as the 10th of its 13 summer replacement episodes. This is only the fourth we have showcased since the first back in October of 2022 and the first in almost a year, so a reprise of the introductory material from the previous episodes is …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #415, September 5th, 2024 “From Each One, the Strength-of-All” by Timothy Mudie “Joy, or A Humble Orbit Through the Celestial City” by Will McMahon
Read More...Dragons, Cats, & Formidable Femmes by Jean Marie Ward (with an introduction by Jody Lynn Nye) (Ginger Blue Publishing, July 2024, 461 pp. Kindle, pb.) “Lord Bai’s Discovery” (reprint, not reviewed) “Most Dead Bodies in a Confined Space” (reprint, not reviewed) “Hoodoo Cupid” (reprint, not reviewed) “Yesterday I will” (reprint, not reviewed) “The Taxman Cometh” …
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