khōréō, Volume 4, Issue 4

khōréō

by Zhui Ning Chang (Editor), Christos Callow Jr. (Contributor), Kawai Shen (Contributor)

khoreo magazine’s Volume 4, Issue 4. Originally published December 15, 2024. Includes six fantastic stories:

“The Trauma Tourist” by Christos Callow Jr
“The Doll’s Boy” by Kawai Shen
“Kolumbo 1619: Choose Your Own Adventure” by KÁNYIN Olorunnisola
“The Secret” by Fumio Takano, translated by Sharni Wilson
“AITA for telling my genetic double she can’t be transgender?” by Leon Tomova
“The Tangle” by Rae Mariz

78 pages, ebook

First published December 15, 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 6 stories. It was also an unusually science-fiction heavy issue, though one or two were on the line of fanasy. My favorites were probably Olorunnisola's "Kolumbo 1619" and Tomova's AITA story.