NewsWe're looking for new fiction editors — see here for details. Contents5 March 2012(Reviews) COLUMN: Dice and D-Pads: Phones With Friends, by Robyn FlemingI got a new smartphone recently, and I'm not going to lie to you—the first thing I did after importing all my contacts was install Fruit Ninja. FICTION: Nightfall in the Scent Garden, by Claire HumphreyYou'll start to understand none of these things happened the way you remember. If you read this, you'll learn how I betrayed you. POETRY: Atlantis, by Caitlín R. KiernanI would so sink the world / But I alone would go a-foundering. REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: Bronze Summer by Stephen Baxter, reviewed by Finn Dempster 27 February 2012(Articles) ARTICLE: Writing Climate Change: A Round Table Discussion, by Niall HarrisonJulie Bertagna, Tobias Buckell, Maggie Gee, Glenda Larke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh and Joan Slonczewski discuss why and how they write about climate change in their speculative fiction. COLUMN: Diffractions: Sleepwalking Toward Calamity: The 2011 Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa, by Vandana SinghIn the winter of 2011, from November 28 to December 11, the countries of the world met to save it from peril. POETRY: The Vampire Astronomer, by Chris WillrichBut they have whispered dark worries / He never voices in journals. / Why does the universe lurch / With the freight of mass unseen? REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: Blood Red Road by Moira Young, reviewed by Martin Lewis EDITORIAL: Results of the 2011 Readers' Poll, by Niall HarrisonWhat were your favorites from last year? 20 February 2012(Reviews) FICTION: Tornado's Siren, by Brooke BolanderFor a moment everything stops. The tornado's voice grows still. All the little chunks of trash hang frozen in the air, like someone's just hit the pause button. Rhea can see flowering shrubs and someone's shoe, a lawn gnome and two china cups. Then, just as suddenly, it all comes tumbling down. POETRY: Hyphenated American, by Nima KianThe father shattered like digital glass / and became his son's fantasy: / building parts of what a father should be / if the child fostered a man. REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, reviewed by Chris Kammerud 13 February 2012(Reviews) COLUMN: Intertitles: Tinker Tailor Soldier Sci-Fi: Espionage and the Speculative, by Genevieve ValentineA man walks through a hub room where outside information is being gathered and translated by crew members who shuttle it through the circulatory system; he steps into the padded orange room at the center of it all, where he sits down at a black glass table and reports to an inscrutable Control that the enemy is on the move. FICTION: Aftermath (Part 2 of 2), by Joy Kennedy-O'NeillThey came at all hours of the day and night. They scraped along the side of the house, moaned at the doors, ran their fingernails over the boards. POETRY: Tongueless, by Mari NessIn the heat, my vision shimmers. / I thought it would be different, as a bird. REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a weekMonday: Misfits, Season 3, reviewed by Guria King Strange Horizons is a weekly online magazine of science fiction, fantasy, science fact, opinion, art, and reviews. All material in Strange Horizons is copyrighted to the original authors and may not be reproduced without permission. Violators will be prosecuted. Updated every Monday Graphic design by Elaine Chen.
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