They were the dispossessed, reclaiming what was theirs
I've long loved John McCutcheon's 1991 rendition of Leon Rosselson's 1975 song “The World Turned Upside Down” (not to be...
SH Flashback: “Greetings from Kampala,” by Angela Ambroz
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Greetings from Kampala,” by Angela Ambroz During an interstellar war between Hindustani and...
Reminder tags
The other morning, I woke up with an idea for what could be a nifty tech toy: reminder tags. I'm...
SH Flashback: “Start with Color,” by Bill Kte’pi
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Start with Color,” by Bill Kte'pi In a world where everyone's dreams come...
More multimedia speculative fiction from Jon Bois
Jon Bois's tour-de-force multimedia science fiction future-of-football extravaganza “17776” is now complete. 25 brief chapters. Well worth reading/viewing, even for...
Another last-minute Hugo scramble
I spent today mostly hanging out with family, which was great. Saw one niece in a production of Lion King...
Letters from Marcy: Dec 1964
A couple years ago, I was given an amazing trove: a dozen letters from my mother to her parents, written...
Nichelle Nichols on naming and being cast as Uhura
Nichelle Nichols on naming Uhura and on getting the part (transcribed by me from a making-of segment on the ST:TOS...
SH Flashback: “Prisoners of Uqbaristan,” by Chris Nakashima-Brown
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Prisoners of Uqbaristan,” by Chris Nakashima-Brown A dizzying post-cyberpunk melange of media psyops,...
Lovely multimedia sf story: “17776”
A few years ago, I nominated Jon Bois's unusual future-of-football story “Tebow in the CFL: A memoir” for a Hugo....
Intro-to-poly reading recommendations?
I'm looking for intro-to-poly book recommendations. A friend of a friend is considering opening up their heretofore-monogamous relationship, and asked...
SH Flashback: “Textual Variants,” by Rosamund Hodge
I'm going to try to post Flashback stories more often than once a week for a little while, to get...