Strange Horizons

$17,000!

Added 2015-10-17 17:13:35 +0000 UTC

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" by Kelly Link (podcast reading by Graeme Dunlop of Podcastle). Here's how it starts:

If there’s one thing Anat knows, it’s this. She loves Oscar her brother, and her brother Oscar loves her. Hasn’t Oscar raised Anat, practically from childhood? Picked Anat up when she’s fallen? Prepared her meals and lovingly tended to her scrapes and taught her how to navigate their little world? Given her skimmer ships, each faster and more responsive than the one before; the most lovely incendiary devices; a refurbished mob of Handmaids, with their sharp fingers, probing snouts, their furred bellies, their sleek and whiplike limbs?

And it continues here -- or, if you prefer, you can download the ebook attached to this post, which includes all the material from the fund drive special: the stories by Yukimi Ogawa and Roshani Chokshi, the poems by Rose Lemberg, Shweta Narayan, Jane Yolen, the interviews with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Johanna Sinisalo, the whole lot. This isn't a paid post -- it's just an extra ebook to say thanks for supporting this year's fund drive.

Now. Two and a half days left, a final $1,000 to raise. We can do that, right?

-- Niall