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An original story by Dylan O'Neal
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Kevin
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Gordon
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Dylan O’Neal

July 2025

Submission Guidelines
Synthesized Sunsets is now taking paid fiction submissions!
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Kevin
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Gordon
Hugo Awards Review #5: Best Novelette
REVIEW #1 | REVIEW #2 | REVIEW #3 | REVIEW #4
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Gordon
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Kevin
BEST OF SYNTHESIZED SUNSETS: START HERE!
Synthesized Sunsets is a magazine and podcast about speculative fiction, romantic art, and the evolution of popular culture.
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Kevin
SUMMER INTRO: THE SOLAR ISSUE
Welcome to the fifth season of Synthesized Sunsets: a seasonal mag about speculative fiction and the future of pop!
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Kevin
SPRING 2025 FINALE: ONE YEAR OF SYNTHESIZED SUNSETS
Today marks exactly one year since the first post on Synthesized Sunsets. To celebrate the occasion, Gordon and Kevin take a look back at how it all…
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XX: A Career in Science Fiction Criticism w/Rich Horton
This week we spoke with long time Science Fiction reviewer and anthologist Rich Horton. We talked about his experience in the early internet sci-fi…
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Gordon
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Kevin
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Rich Horton
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Addendum: Shunrō Oshikawa, ChatGPT, and the Birth of the "Pre-Translator"
An AI translation, for instance, may be nothing like a human-crafted translation.
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Kevin
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Hugo Awards Review #4: The Ministry of Time + Someone You Can Build a Nest In
REVIEW #1
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Reference: The SFF Magazine Canon (now with foreign magazines)
Last week, I posted a comprehensive guide to the major SFF magazines, as well as a general overview of how the current landscape came to be.
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Kevin
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June 2025

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