khōréō, Volume 4, Issue 2

khōréō

by Zhui Ning Chang (Editor), Jason Pangilinan (Contributor), Leslie What (Contributor)

khoreo magazine’s Volume 4, Issue 2. Originally published June 17, 2024. Includes five fantastic stories:

“High Performer” by Jason Pangilinan
“Wayback” by Leslie What
“Human Trials” by Madeleine Vigneron
“Ace of Knives” by E. A. Xiong
“Mappamundi” by Angelisa Fontaine-Wood

66 pages, ebook

First published June 17, 2024

About the author

Zhui Ning Chang is a queer Malaysian editor, writer, translator and theatre maker based in London, UK.

They are editor-in-chief at khōréō, a Hugo-nominated and IGNYTE-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration. Additional editorial credits include co-editing The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020, co-editing Latin American Plays in Translation, assistant editing SFWA’s Publishing Taught Me essay series, and freelance book editing.

Zhui Ning’s writing includes the time travel adventure Asian Pirate Musical and queer romcom Seashore Yuanfen, as well as short stories, translations, and articles published with PEN Malaysia, This is Southeast Asia, Science Fiction Studies, Strange Horizons, The BSFA Review, and more.

Currently, Zhui Ning is pursuing a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, researching race, decoloniality, and the publishing economy via Southeast Asian speculative fiction.

Reviews

[David H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This issue of khōréō had 5 stories. The one I probably liked the best was "High Performer" by Jason Pangilinan, it was just so strange.