Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories

<h4>Matthew Cheney’s first collection, <i>Blood: Stories</i>, won the Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press. He has published fiction and nonfiction with <i>One Story, Conjunctions, Literary Hub, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Strange Horizons</i>, and elsewhere.</h4>

Matthew Cheney

A New Hope, Ambiguously

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Dark Reflections

On Samuel R. Delany’s “Dark Reflections”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

The Memory Garden

Magic, Memory, and Menace

Matthew Cheney’s first collection, <i>Blood: Stories</i>, won the Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press. He has published fiction and nonfiction with <i>One Story, Conjunctions, Literary Hub, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Strange Horizons</i>, and elsewhere.