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We are very happy to welcome a new Fiction Editor, Joyce Wolf Chng, to the team! Joyce is a writer and editor. They have been with Strange Horizons working as an Articles Editor for eight years and worked on the Southeast Asian and Wuxia Specials. We’re stoked to bring them on to the fiction side and have them bring their wonderful insight and skill to the fiction team. Here’s a little bit more about Joyce:

Joyce Wolf Chng is Chinese and lives in Singapore. Qar writes urban fantasy, YA, and things in between, and wonders about the significance of female knights. Also wrangles kids and cats. Qar's website can be found at http://awolfstale.wordpress.com. (Also likes wolves).

© Joyce Chng

With Joyce coming on to our fiction side, we are also saying goodbye to previous editor Aigner Loren Wilson at the end of 2025.

"I've been with Strange Horizons in various roles since 2017 and a senior fiction editor since 2021. Being part of the team has meant so much to me over the years, but it's time to move on to new horizons, which I hope are just as strange." - Aigner Loren Wilson



Current Issue
16 Mar 2026

The garden is the resting place of your vulnerabilities; there’s a reason you’ve left them here instead of carrying them with you. Typically you enter hardened and hurried, beelining straight for the correct plot and quickly releasing whatever is clutched in your hand without a second thought—today, an attempted weaving of leather and lace, strength and suppleness that your body cannot figure out how to wear, nor your words to narrate.
If you say there are rats, I will believe you, though I don’t hear or see them.
A ruffling of branches as they resettle for the night. We dare not ask why they are here.
Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity 
As part of a collective of African writers who have created an Afrocentric Sauútiverse of five planets, two suns and a spirit moon, a world of science and fantasy, where there is no written language, we play with technology and sound magic to scrutinise the world as we know it, and use speculative fiction as a response to our world. 
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Podcast read by: Jenna Hanchey
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