Coming March 1, the 45th issue of the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!!

All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release.

The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on April 5.

Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available from Weightless Books and Amazon Kindle, and you can support us on our Patreon!

Uncanny Magazine Issue 45 Table of Contents:

Cover:
Habitation by Paul Lewin

Editorials:
“The Uncanny Valley” by Liz Argall, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
“The Yearning Body Problem” by Meg Elison

Fiction:
“The Goldfish Man” by Maureen McHugh (3/1)
“Boundless” by Miyuki Jane Pinckard (3/1)
“The Kaleidoscopic Visitor” by Shaoni C. White (3/1)

“I Will Have This Diamond for a Heart” by Carlos Hernandez (4/5)
“The Path of Water” by Emma Törzs (4/5)
“Flowerkicker” by Stephen Graham Jones (4/5)
“Requiem for a Dollface” by Margaret Dunlap (4/5)

Reprint:
“Under Green” by Richard Butner (3/1)

Nonfiction:
“Ask a Unicorn” (3/1)
“Acknowledging Taiwanese-American Vampire Foodies” by Jo Wu (3/1)
“Resisting the Monolith: Collecting As Counter Narrative” by Rebecca Romney (3/1)

“Wax Sealed With a Kiss” by Elsa Sjunneson (4/5)
“An Invitation to the Weary” by Sarah Gailey (4/5)

Poetry:
“Irreconcilable Differences” by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja (3/1)
“Omonhinmin” by Praise Osawaru (3/1)

“Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea” by Mary Soon Lee (4/5)
“A Wreckful Planting of Small Pockets of Thirst” by Nnadi Samuel (4/5)

Interviews:
Miyuki Jane Pinckard interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (3/1)

Emma Törzs interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (4/5)

Podcasts:
Episode 45A (3/1): Editors’ Introduction, “The Goldfish Man” by Maureen McHugh, as read by Erika Ensign, “Irreconcilable Differences” by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Maureen McHugh.

Episode 45B (4/1): Editors’ Introduction, “I Will Have This Diamond for a Heart” by Carlos Hernandez, as read by Matt Peters, “Requiem for a Dollface” by Margaret Dunlap, as read by Erika Ensign, “A Wreckful Planting of Small Pockets of Thirst” by Nnadi Samuel , as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Carlos Hernandez.

 

FABULOUS NEWS, SPACE UNICORNS! HAPPIEST OF DAYS!!! FIFTEEN Uncanny Magazine stories are on the prestigious 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List! WE ARE SO THRILLED! Congratulations to all of the authors!

Best Novella:
“The Giants of the Violet Sea” by Eugenia Triantafyllou

Best Novelette:
“Mulberry and Owl” by Aliette de Bodard
“Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.” by Fran Wilde
“That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell
“Colors of the Immortal Palette” by Caroline M. Yoachim

Best Short Story:
“If the Martians Have Magic” by P. Djèlí Clark
“The Wishing Pool” by Tananarive Due
“Proof by Induction” by José Pablo Iriarte
“Immortal Coil” by Ellen Kushner
“Presque vue” by Tochi Onyebuchi
“A House Full of Voices Is Never Empty” by Miyuki Jane Pinckard
“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker
“Thirteen of the Secrets in My Purse” by Rachel Swirsky
“How the Girls Came Home” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
“The Sin of America” by Catherynne M. Valente

ALSO! Congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Managing Editor/Poetry Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu! Her novelette “And for My Next Trick, I Have Disappeared” is on the list! PLUS! Congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Nonfiction Editor Meg Elison! Her short stories “The Pizza Boy” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries“ are on the list!

This means you can vote for these stories in the 2022 Locus Poll and Survey which determines the Locus Awards! Voting is FREE TO ALL! Along with these stories, Uncanny Magazine is also eligible for a Locus Award in the Best Magazine or Fanzine category, and Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas are eligible in the Best Editor – Pro or Fan category! Vote for the things you liked, and you can even write in things that didn’t make the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List! YOUR VOTE ALWAYS COUNTS!

And as long as you are in a voting mood, don’t forget to vote in the Uncanny Magazine Readers’ Favorite Stories Poll! It’s open until February 7, and the winning author gets a SNAZZY CERTIFICATE!

Shine on, Space Unicorns!

Hello, Space Unicorns! Nominating for the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry is open! If you’re a SFPA member, you can nominate short and long poetry up until February 15 for the 2022 Rhysling Award. Uncanny Magazine’s eligible poems from 2021 are:

 

Short Poem (0–49 lines; for prose poems, 0–499 words):

Kalevala, an Untelling by Lizy Simonen

bargain | bin by Ewen Ma

Fish Out of Water by Neil Gaiman

What The Time Travellers Stole by L.X. Beckett

lagahoo culture (Part II) by Brandon O’Brien

the most humane methods could involve a knife by Tamara Jerée

Future Saints by Terese Mason Pierre

Self Portrait As a Printing Press by Nnadi Samuel

Paqtasultieg by Tiffany Morris

Collection by Vivian Li

Mona Lisa’s Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci by Abu Bakr Sadiq

Hitobashira by Betsy Aoki

Sonnet for the Aglæcwif by Minal Hajratwala

Radioactivity by Octavia Cade

amorous advice for the ocean-oriented by Chiara Situmorang

Áhàméfùla by Uche Ogbuji

Map-Making by Kristian Macaron

The Burning River by Hal Y. Zhang

POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION by Abu Bakr Sadiq

Between Childroid + Mother by Miriam Alex

Confessions of a Spaceport AI by Mary Soon Lee

 

Long poems (50+ lines; for prose poems, 500+ words):

Medusa Gets a Haircut by Theodora Goss

Of Monsters I Loved by Ali Trotta

After The Tower Falls, Death Gives Advice by Ali Trotta

The Captain Flies by Avi Silver

 

Wonderful news, Space Unicorns!  “You Perfect, Broken Thing” by C.L. Clark  is the 2021 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards Best Short Story Winner! Congratulations to C.L. Clark and to all of the finalists!

From the nerds of a feather website:

Over the past almost-year, a top secret group of bloggers and fans has been plotting the most nefarious of plots: to decide, subjectively upon the best genre works of 2020, and then throw rocks at them. By “throw” we mean “lovingly post”, and the rocks all have a nice message painted on them, and it’s… an award? We suppose?

It’s the time of year when people post their year-in-reviews to remind voters for the different SF/F awards what’s out there that they might have missed, and in which categories those stories are eligible (especially for the Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards). 2021 was the seventh full year of Uncanny Magazine (Issues 38 through 43). We are extremely proud of the year we had.

Pathfinding! by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Colors of the Immortal Palette by Caroline M. Yoachim (Counts as a Novella for World Fantasy Award consideration.)

Unseelie Brothers, Ltd. by Fran Wilde

Mulberry and Owl by Aliette de Bodard

Onward by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

That Story Isn’t the Story by John Wiswell

Ina’s Spark by Mary Robinette Kowal (Counts as a Novella for World Fantasy Award consideration.)

 

Short Stories (Under 7500 Words):

Tyrannosaurus Hex by Sam J. Miller

A House Full of Voices Is Never Empty by Miyuki Jane Pinckard

Beyond the Doll Forest by Marissa Lingen

Femme and Sundance by Christopher Caldwell

Distribution by Paul Cornell

The Sin of America by Catherynne M. Valente

The Perils of a Hologram Heart by Dominica Phetteplace

Eighteen Days of Barbareek by Rati Mehrotra

The Book of the Kraken by Carrie Vaughn

Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker

Thirteen of the Secrets in My Purse by Rachel Swirsky

Proof by Induction by José Pablo Iriarte

How the Girls Came Home by Eugenia Triantafyllou

The Hungry Ones by Emma Törzs

Heart Shine by Shveta Thakrar

Diamond Cuts by Shaoni C. White

The Graveyard by Eleanor Arnason

The Wishing Pool by Tananarive Due

Immortal Coil by Ellen Kushner

From the Archives of the Museum of Eerie Skins: An Account by C. S. E. Cooney

Presque vue by Tochi Onyebuchi

On a Branch Floating Down the River, a Wren Is Singing by Betsy Aoki

Down in the Aspen Hollow by Kristiana Willsey

Six Fictions About Unicorns by Rachael K. Jones

If the Martians Have Magic by P. Djèlí Clark

For Want of Milk by Grace P. Fong

The Stop After the Last Station by A. T. Greenblatt

The North Pole Workshops by Mari Ness

White Rose, Red Rose by Rachel Swirsky

For All Those Who Sheltered Here by Del Sandeen

Coming November 2, THE 43rd ISSUE OF THE HUGO AWARD-WINNING UNCANNY MAGAZINE!!

All of the content will be available in the eBook version on the day of release.

The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on December 7.

Don’t forget eBook Subscriptions to Uncanny Magazine are available from Weightless Books and Amazon Kindle, and you can support us on our Patreon!

Uncanny Magazine Issue 43 Table of Contents:

Cover:
For Want of Milk by Grace P. Fong

Editorial:
“The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Fiction:
“That Story Isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell (11/2)
“For Want of Milk” by Grace P. Fong (11/2)
“The Stop After the Last Station” by A. T. Greenblatt (11/2)

“Ina’s Spark” by Mary Robinette Kowal (12/7)
“For All Those Who Sheltered Here” by Del Sandeen (12/7)
“White Rose, Red Rose” by Rachel Swirsky (12/7)
“The North Pole Workshops” by Mari Ness (12/7)

Nonfiction:
“Loving the Old Wounds” by Javier Grillo-Marxuach (11/2)
“Scenes from the Apocalypse” by Dawn Xiana Moon (11/2)
“Pro Wrestling Is Fake (But You Already Knew That)” by Veda Scott (11/2)

“What You Might Have Missed” by Arley Sorg (12/7)
“The Precarious Now” by Marissa Lingen (12/7)
“The Matter of Cloud: An Interview with Greer Gilman” by Greer
Gilman and Sofia Samatar (12/7)

Poetry:
“POST MASSACRE PSYCH EVALUATION” by Abu Bakr Sadiq (11/2)
“The Burning River” by Hal Y. Zhang (11/2)

“Confessions of a Spaceport AI” by Mary Soon Lee (12/7)
“Between Childroid + Mother” by Miriam Alex (12/7)

Interview:
John Wiswell interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (11/2)

Podcasts:

Episode 43A (11/2): Editors’ Introduction, “The Stop After the Last Station” by A. T. Greenblatt, as read by Erika Ensign, “POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION” by Abu Bakr Sadiq, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing A. T. Greenblatt.

Episode 43B (12/7): Editors’ Introduction, “For All Those Who Sheltered Here” by Del Sandeen, as read by Matt Peters, “White Rose, Red Rose” by Rachel Swirsky, as read by Erika Ensign, “The North Pole Workshops” by Mari Ness, as read by Matt Peters, “Confessions of a Spaceport AI” by Mary Soon Lee, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Del Sandeen.