A new generation of writers and artists has emerged: multicultural, non-traditional, willing to step past cliche. Strange Horizons, one of the premier magazines for speculative fiction to be found online, was created to give these rising stars another place to shine. This anthology collects the best of the magazine's offerings -- in articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, and reviews -- that first year.

 

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Contents

Strange New Horizons, by Mary Anne Mohanraj

A Winter's Tale, by Nora M. Mulligan

Last Call in Temperance, by Alan DeNiro

Ghost Lakes, by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Grief, by Wendy Rathbone

Explosions, by Michael J. Jasper

Medusa at Morning, by Beth Bernobich

A Gardener Betrayed by Roses, by Benjamin Rosenbaum

The Medieval Agricultural Year, by Rachel Hartman

Discovering the Earth in Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin's Tales from Earthsea, by Christopher Cobb

Sittin' a Spell at Miz Love's, by Nancy Proctor

Words of Love, Soft and Tender, by Mark Rudolph

The Heat of the Moon, by Gary Lehmann

Exogenous Origins of Life, by Dr. Max Bernstein

Frank Herbert's Dune: It can be filmed!, by Fred Bush

Icarus, by Wendy A. Shaffer

In a Mirror, by Kim Fryer

One-Eyed Jack, by Connie Wilkins

Surreal Domestic, by Bruce Boston

Sophisticated Renaissance Fantasy: The Astrology, Necromancy, and Phytomancy of Melissa Scott's & Lisa Barnett's Point of Dreams, by Rob Gates

Major-League Entertainment: Moore & O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, by Bryan A. Hollerbach

A Private Unbinding of Time, by James Allison

The Palm Tree Bandit, by Nnedi Okorafor

The God of the Crossroads, by Tim Pratt

The Bridge Between Truth/Death and Power/Knowledge: Ted Chiang's "72 Letters", by Greg Beatty Passing Through, by Kurt Newton

The Fen-Queen's Bride, by P. K. Graves

Something on the Bed, by D. K. Latta

accidental series, by Charles Coleman Finlay

Harrowing Urban Fantasy: Robert Charles Wilson's The Perseids and Other Stories, by John Aegard

Can a TV Tie-In Novel Achieve Excellence? Jeanne Cavelos's The Passing of the Techno-Mages, by R Michael Harman

Eliyahu ha-Navi, by Max Sparber

The Green Corn Dance, by Emily Gaskin

In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge, by Michael Chant

Love Versus Corruption in a Psychological Space Opera: C.J. Merle's Of Honor and Treason, by Christopher Cobb

If the Dead Must Speak, by Ward Kelley

I Know Why Sales Clerks Fall From the Sky, by Mark Heath

Little Brother (TM), by Bruce Holland Rogers

Voodoo Corner Bus Stop, by Nancy Ellis Taylor

Alien or Human? Humanity's Orphan Children in Scott Mackay's The Meek, by Greg Beatty

Kubrick's A.I. and Square's Final Fantasy: Plastics for the People, by Danyel Fisher & R Michael Harman

A Tale of Collaboration, by Marge Simon & Bruce Boston

With Open Eyes, by Cecilia Tan

Interview: Pamela Dean, by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Interview: Gary A. Braunbeck, by Lucy A. Snyder

Late for Dinner, by Ursula Pflug

Toaster of the Gods, by Randall Coots