Coming March 3, THE THIRTY-THIRD ISSUE OF THE 2016, 2017, 2018, & 2019 HUGO AWARD-WINNING UNCANNY MAGAZINE!!!

Uncanny Magazine Issue 33 Table of Contents

Cover:
Wild Blue Yonder by Galen Dara

Editorials:
“The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
“Imagining Place: New York, New York. It’s a Hell of a Town” by Elsa Sjunneson

Fiction:
“So You Want to Be a Honeypot” by Kelly Robson (3/3)
“The Sycamore and the Sybil” by Alix E. Harrow (3/3)
“If Salt Lose Its Savor” by Christopher Caldwell (3/3)

“Getaway” by Nicole Kornher-Stace (4/7)
“If You Want to Erase Us, You Must Be Thorough” by L. Tu (4/7)
“Georgie in the Sun” by Natalia Theodoridou (4/7)

Reprint:
“Harvest” by Rebecca Roanhorse (4/7)

Nonfiction:
“Toss a Coin to Your Bitcher” by Suzanne Walker (3/3)
“One Year Older” by Michi Trota (3/3)

“Monsters at the End of the Sewer: Buffy’s Sixth Season is Now” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (4/7)
“The Assassination of Professor X: The Destruction of Marvel’s Most Famous Disabled Character” by John Wiswell (4/7)

Poetry:
“Other Worlds to Save” by Beth Cato (3/3)
“Hungry Ghost” by Millie Ho (3/3)

“behind the self-help section” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (4/7)
“Νόστιμον Ήμαρ” by Eva Papasoulioti (4/7)

Interviews:
Alix E. Harrow interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (3/3)

Natalia Theodoridou interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim(4/7)

Podcasts:

Uncanny Magazine Podcast 33A (3/3)
“So You Want to Be a Honeypot” by Kelly Robson, as read by Joy Piedmont
“Other Worlds to Save” by Beth Cato, as read by Erika Ensign
Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Kelly Robson

Uncanny Magazine Podcast 33B (4/7)
“Getaway” by Nicole Kornher-Stace, as read by Erika Ensign
“behind the self-help section” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires, as read by Joy Piedmont
Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Nicole Kornher-Stace

Outstanding news, Space Unicorns! FOUR Uncanny Magazine stories are finalists for the prestigious Nebula Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America! “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker is a finalist for Best Novelette, “The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power” by Karen Osborne is a finalist for Best Short Story, “How the Trick Is Done” by A.C. Wise is a finalist for Best Short Story, and finally “A Catalog of Storms” by Fran Wilde is a finalist for Best Short Story!

Also, the Fate Accessibility Toolkit by Uncanny Magazine Nonfiction Editor Elsa Sjunneson from Evil Hat Productions is a finalist for Best Game Writing, and “The Archronology of Love” by Uncanny Magazine Interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim from Lightspeed Magazine is a finalist for Best Novelette!

Congratulations to Sarah, Karen, A.C., Fran, Caroline, and Elsa!

It is an amazing list of finalists, many of whom are Uncanny authors and friends. CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYBODY!!!

From the SFWA Nebula Award announcement:

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, Inc.) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 55th Annual Nebula Awards, including the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book. The awards will be presented in Woodland Hills, CA at the Warner Center Marriott during a ceremony on the evening of May 30th.

2019 Nebula Award Finalists

Novel

Marque of Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)

The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit UK)

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)

Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)

A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)

Novella

“Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)

The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)

This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)

Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Vylar Kaftan (Tor.com Publishing)

The Deep, Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)

Catfish Lullaby, A.C. Wise (Broken Eye)

Novelette

“A Strange Uncertain Light”, G.V. Anderson (F&SF 7-8/19)

“For He Can Creep”, Siobhan Carroll (Tor.com 7/10/19)

“His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light”, Mimi Mondal (Tor.com 1/23/19)

“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 7-8/19)

Carpe Glitter, Cat Rambo (Meerkat)

“The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)

Short Story

“Give the Family My Love”, A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld 2/19)

“The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power”, Karen Osborne (Uncanny 3-4/19)

“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)

“Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)

“A Catalog of Storms”, Fran Wilde (Uncanny 1-2/19)

“How the Trick Is Done”, A.C. Wise (Uncanny 7-8/19)

The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)

Catfishing on CatNet, Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)

Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)

Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Henry Lien (Holt)

Cog, Greg van Eekhout (Harper)

Riverland, Fran Wilde (Amulet)

 

Game Writing

Outer Wilds, Kelsey Beachum (Mobius Digital)

The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, Megan Starks, Kate Dollarhyde, Chris L’Etoile (Obsidian Entertainment)

The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)

Disco Elysium, Robert Kurvitz (ZA/UM)

Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions)

The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Avengers: Endgame, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Marvel Studios)

Captain Marvel, Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Marvel Studios)

Good Omens: “Hard Times”, Neil Gaiman (Amazon Studios/BBC Studios)

The Mandalorian: “The Child”, Jon Favreau (Disney+)

Russian Doll: “The Way Out”, Allison Silverman and Leslye Headland (Netflix)

Watchmen: “A God Walks into Abar”, Jeff Jensen & Damon Lindelof (HBO)

The Nebula Awards will be presented during the annual SFWA Nebula Conference, which will run from May 28th-31st, 2020 at the Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills and features programming developed and geared toward SFF professionals. The Awards Ceremony will be held on the evening of May 30th. On May 31st, a mass autograph session will take place, which is free and open to the public. 

The Nebula Awards, presented annually, recognize the best works of science fiction and fantasy published in the previous year. They are selected by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The first Nebula Awards were presented in 1966.

The Nebula Awards include four fiction awards, a game writing award, the Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book. SFWA also administers the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards, the Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award, and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

The Nebula Finalist Assistance Fund exists to help defray the costs of travel to the Nebula Conference for Nebula Award finalists (including Norton, Bradbury, and Game Writing finalists) who would otherwise be unable to attend. Donations may be made at: www.sfwa.org/donate — choose Nebula Finalist Assistance in the drop down menu.

For more information, please email [email protected].

http://nebulas.sfwa.org/nebula-conference/

FABULOUS NEWS, SPACE UNICORNS! HAPPIEST OF DAYS!!! ELEVEN Uncanny Magazine stories and The Best of Uncanny are on the prestigious 2019 Locus Recommended Reading List! WE ARE SO CHUFFED! Congratulations to all of the authors!

Best Anthology:
The Best of Uncanny, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, eds. (Subterranean)

Best Novella:
“A Time to Reap,” Elizabeth Bear

Best Novelette:
“Nice Things,” Ellen Klages
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye,” Sarah Pinsker 

Best Short Story:
“Lest We Forget,” Elizabeth Bear
“The Migration Suite: A Study in C Sharp Minor,” Maurice Broaddus
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan,” Christopher Caldwell
“Before the World Crumbles Away,” A.T. Greenblatt
“Dustdaughter,” Inda Lauryn
“On the Lonely Shore,” Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power,” Karen Osborne
“A Catalog of Storms,” Fran Wilde

This means you can vote for these stories in the 2020 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 2019 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 6, and the winning author gets a SNAZZY CERTIFICATE!

Shine on, Space Unicorns!

Hello, Space Unicorns! 2019 was a complicated year. Though it was often a rollercoaster, we are very proud of all of the amazing works we published in Uncanny Magazine. Everyone in the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps has been wonderfully supportive, and your enthusiasm has meant so much to us. It’s been fantastic to see how much our readers have been enjoying Uncanny’s fiction. And while we have our personal favorites, we’d like to know which stories YOU loved from Uncanny in 2019.

We’ve set up a poll for Uncanny readers to vote for their top three favorite original short stories from 2019. (You can find links to all of the stories here.)

The poll will be open from January 9 to February 6, after which we’ll announce the results. We’re excited for you to share which Uncanny stories made you feel!

A snazzy certificate will be given to the creator whose work comes out on top of  the poll!

So please spread the word! And don’t forget, EVERY VOTE COUNTS!

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! In case you missed it during your New Year’s celebrations, The Best of Uncanny was released into the multiverse!

As you know, The Best of Uncanny is a collection from Subterranean Press edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas that brings together some of their favorite Uncanny Magazine stories and poems from the first few years of the magazine, including many works which were nominated for or won awards. Over 40 authors!

The Best of Uncanny has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly Booklist, Library Journal, and Kirkus!

The trade hardcover edition is nearly out of print! If you pre-ordered, your copy should be on the way soon! You can still buy copies directly from Subterranean Press! 

Plus, the eBook edition is available! You can purchase an eBook of The Best of Uncanny from Subterranean Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Kobo!

Don’t forget, there will be a book tour for The Best of Uncanny with stops in Seattle (Jan 17), Philadelphia (Jan 25), Champaign (Feb 5), and Minneapolis (Feb 15). If you still want a print copy and missed the pre-orders, this is the only way to get one! Please, come meet some of the editors and authors!

We are very proud of this book, and we think you will love these stories and poems as much as we do. Thank you, Space Unicorns!

 

Cover:

Traveling to a Distant Day by Tran Nguyen

Table of Contents:

• “The Uncanny Valley- An Introduction” by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander
• “Blessings” by Naomi Novik
• “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (translator signing, not the author)
• “The New Ways” by Amal El-Mohtar (Poem)
• “Fandom for Robots” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• “Catcall” by Delilah S. Dawson
• “Wooden Feathers” by Ursula Vernon
• “The Long Run” by Neil Gaiman (Poem)
• “Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History” by Sam J. Miller
• “Ghost Champagne” by Charlie Jane Anders
• “Translatio Corporis” by Kat Howard
• “Rose Child” by Theodora Goss (Poem)
• “The Witch of the Orion Waste and the Boy Knight” by E. Lily Yu
• “Monster Girls Don’t Cry” by A. Merc Rustad
• “Midnight Hour” by Mary Robinette Kowal
• “Henosis” by N.K. Jemisin
• “The Persecution of Witches” by Ali Trotta (Poem)
• “Restore the Heart into Love” by John Chu
• “I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise” by Sarah Pinsker
• “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong
• “肉骨茶 (Meat Bone Tea)” by S. Qiouyi Lu (Poem)
• “She Still Loves the Dragon” by Elizabeth Bear
• “If You Were a Tiger, I’d Have to Wear White” by Maria Dahvana Headley
• “archival testimony fragments / minersong” by Rose Lemberg (Poem)
• “Sun, Moon, Dust” by Ursula Vernon
• “Planet Lion” by Catherynne M. Valente
• “The Hydraulic Emperor” by Arkady Martine
• “Starskin, Sealskin” by Shveta Thakrar & Sara Cleto (Poem)
• “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” by K.M. Szpara
• “god-date” by Brandon O’Brien (Poem)
• “Auspicium Melioris Aevi” by JY Yang
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde
• “An Ocean the Color of Bruises” by Isabel Yap
• “Dancing Princesses” by Roshani Chokshi (Poem)
• “Those” by Sofia Samatar
• “Though She Be But Little” by C. S. E. Cooney
• “Children of Thorns, Children of Water” by Aliette de Bodard
• “Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization” by Cassandra Khaw (Poem)
• “My Body, Herself” by Carmen Maria Machado
• “Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands” by Seanan McGuire
• “The Words on My Skin” by Caroline M. Yoachim
• “And Then There Were (N-One)” by Sarah Pinsker
• “The Sea Never Says It Loves You” by Fran Wilde (Poem)
• “Pockets” by Amal El-Mohtar

Coming January 7, THE THIRTY-SECOND ISSUE OF THE 2016, 2017, 2018, & 2019 HUGO AWARD-WINNING UNCANNY MAGAZINE!!!

Space Unicorns! Are you excited about the forthcoming The Best of Uncanny (edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas) from Subterranean Press? We have more great news! There will be four launch events next year featuring the editors and writers!

University Book Store
Seattle, WA
Friday, January 17th at 6:30 PM
Attending: Michael Damian Thomas, Caroline M. Yoachim, and E. Lily Yu

Shakespeare & Co.
Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, January 25 around 6 PM
Attending: Lynne M. Thomas, Fran Wilde, Sarah Pinsker, C. S. E. Cooney, Shveta Thakrar, Sara Cleto, Ali Trotta, and K.M. Szpara

Illini Union Bookstore
Champaign, IL
Wednesday, February 5 at 6:30 PM
Attending: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas

Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore
Minneapolis, MN
Saturday, February 15 at 1 PM
Attending: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, plus Kelly McCullough

We hope to see you, Space Unicorns!

The Best of Uncanny received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, and Kirkus! It’s a limited print run, and Subterranean Press believes it might sell out immediately! Make sure to pre-order or make plans to be at one of these events!