New fiction editor
The Strange Horizons fiction department is pleased to announce that a new editor is joining us: Karen Meisner. The selection...
Author Archive
Top 250
On the IMDB's top 250 movies list (as voted by IMDB users), four movies out of the top 25 were...
Timing
Funny coincidence: during the week or two before my most recent editorial went up, we received quite a few more...
No-rules Potter
Actually, that last entry started out to be about something entirely different. I was going to briefly mention an article...
Boy has no brain
It seems to me to be a bad design choice: when I get tired, my decisionmaking capacity is impaired, and...
Shoes for Industry
I'm not sure what happened to my cassettes of Shoes for Industry! (the Best of the Firesign Theatre album). So...
My story and welcome to it
A recent request reminded me that I've been meaning to post a link to this. It never occurred to me...
Destruction testing
Ever wondered what would happen if you spun a CD up to 10,000 RPM or faster? I hadn't, but the...
Linear plot
I talk about this all the time in other contexts, but I don't seem to have done so here. There's...
Bugbears for each generation
A hundred years ago, the evil menacing people purported to lurk in every shadow were anarchists. By the 1920s, and...
Soundproofing links
Huh—some quick Googling turns up some interesting-looking pages: Soundproofing 101, which gives useful information for people who can tear their...
Flies with honey
Left a note for Loud Car Guy late Sunday night, outside his apartment. Apologized for various bad behaviors on my...