Another Monday, another issue:
For twenty-seven thousand years—through kingdoms and republics, through prophets and messiahs, through decay and c... 2015-11-16 21:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all -- this week's issue is up!
This week's story is "Liminal Grid" by Jaymee Goh:
Because you live there, in that condemned building, you k... 2015-11-09 21:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick update this week, to say that the first issue of November is up! And what do we have for you? We have:
The fourth Monday of the month brings our usual non-fiction focus: this month we have two perspectives on writing sex, by Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Cecelia Tan, plus G...
2015-10-26 22:05:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings from Barcelona! A brief lull in my schedule means that I finally have a chance to send out our main donor reward this year, our 15th anniversary ebook. As well as the stories and poems by the people listed on the cover (and more!), many of ...
2015-10-24 19:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Excuse the slightly blurry screenshot; Patreon does insist on blowing things up somewhat. The main thing is: the fund drive is over, and not only did we meet our initial $18,000 goal, but we reached all three of our stretch goals and then some.
Greetings, patrons! Apologies for the relative radio silence here -- and the lack of a fund drive graph yesterday -- unfortunately the end of the fund drive has collided with a day-job business trip, which leaves me stealing time between other tasks ...
2015-10-19 18:05:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We're very nearly there now! We just hit $17,000, unlocking the final piece of our fund drive special issue: "The Game of Smash and Recovery...
2015-10-17 17:13:35 +0000 UTC View Post
With five and a half days left, we've reached our penultimate bonus material -- two pieces featuring Johanna Sinisalo.
First up, we have her Gu...
2015-10-14 14:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The striking image you see before you is Rachel Kahn's art for this week's story: "Let's Tell Stories of the Deaths of Children", by Margaret Ronald.
Also in this...
2015-10-12 22:11:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The dreaded fund drive doldrums have finally arrived. Over the course of this weekend, only $165 has been donated, compared to $715, $1204, and $817 for the other weekends this year (it's almost like there were several large conventions happening in ...
2015-10-11 23:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Fund drive update: we've reached our next tier of bonus material! $11,000 for us means three new poems for you:
"Nettle-stung" by Shweta Narayan (...
2015-10-07 19:21:03 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the link to this week's issue.
And what's in it? We have Naru Dames Sundar's story "Broken-Winged Love", plus audio version read as usual by Anaea Lay; "Sw...
2015-10-05 17:25:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's graph is potentially confusing but actually remains encouraging!
What we have here is progress through the last four fund drives, as indicated by the average daily donation needed to hit that year's goal. The right-hand side of the ...
2015-10-04 18:46:35 +0000 UTC View PostWe are half-way to our goal! That means more bonus material, which in this instance is a fresh new column by John Clute:
Maybe this is claim... 2015-10-02 16:52:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a look at the cover for our 15th anniversary ebook! The image is by Frank Fox, cover design by one of our art directors, 2015-10-01 08:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we are! Strange Horizons' first monthly ebook, containing all of our material from September: weird stories by Gabby Reed, Jei D. Marcade, and James Robert Herndon; poems by Jenny Blackford, Carrie Naughton, Florence Lenaers, and Mat Join...
2015-09-28 18:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Sunday, so -- as those of you who were here last weekend will know -- it must be graph time! This week's graph is slightly more esoteric than last week's offering, but it's still good news.
If I'd put up an update of the cumulative percent...
2015-09-27 12:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostHere we are, then -- the first Strange Horizons of the Patreon era, and our first paid post, to mark this week's issue. Our story is "Bodies Are the Strongest Conductors" by new writer James Robert Herndon; our poem is "Crumbs" by Florenc...
2015-09-21 20:45:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a graph that I like.
I have a big spreadsheet that I update during fund drives. I started it for the first fund drive after I became Editor-in-Chief, in 2011, and have been updating it every year since. Partly it's just a necessity:...
2015-09-20 10:53:22 +0000 UTC View PostWe've reached the next milestone in this year's fund drive! $3,000 means three poems on myth and fairytale themes, by Jane Yolen, Sasha Kim, and Carlos Hernandez. Enjoy! Next up, at $5,000 we'll be publishing an interview with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
We've reached $1,000 in this year's fund drive and published our first piece of bonus content -- a review of the Strugatsky Brothers novel Hard to be a God, by Gautam Bhatia. At $3,000, we'll publish poems by Jane Yolen, Sasha Kim and Carlos Hernande...
2015-09-15 21:03:13 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to our new Patreon! Exciting, isn't it?
This is, as I'm sure you're all aware, a significant shift in funding model for SH: away from once-a-year lump-sum donations, towards recurring donations. We've always resisted subscriptions as su...
2015-09-15 09:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post