Romie Says

Strange Horizons has been nominated for a 2012 Hugo Award, one of the two highest honors in SF. My co-editorship only encompassed the last third of the year, but still - it’s my magazine! Getting a pat on the head! The announcement from the editor in chief is here.

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Shonagh Rae illustrates Romie Stott’s short story “A robot walks into a bar…”

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A Robot Walks Into A Bar. . .

Click through to read the story. May or may not be safe for work, depending on the bots where you work.

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“A Robot Walks Into A Bar and Says…” wins our third Arc/Tomorrow Project short story competition. It is a hard story to precis: a tale of robot love, teledildonic sex, Turing tests and the maddening wobbliness of human desire. In the telling, it is anything but predictable: a wholly convincing…

the future will be literary. and sexy.

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Arcfinity: Arc's new competition asks, Is the future friendly?

I’m pleased to announce that my story “A Robot Walks Into A Bar and Says …” will be in Arc 1.4!

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Arc and The Tomorrow Project share a common belief: that we can shape the future through fiction. And at our launch, early this year, we teamed up to run a series of unique short story competitions.

We’ve run three so far, highlighting terrific new writing talent in Arc itself and on our…

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Strange Horizons submission call

“My favorite poetry, spec or otherwise, delights in its own creation… I believe poetry, science, and speculative elements do well together because they aim to enter the same heightened, liminal space.”

I’ll be reading poems submitted in October and January; we pay $20 a poem. What I’m looking for.