Hugo Award Winner- Best Short Story

Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather

by Sarah Pinsker in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Nine

About “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” (5 contributors, 5 notes, 7 comments) →“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” (Roud 423, Child 313) is a traditional English folk ballad. Like many traditional songs, the lyrics are unattributed. Child transcribed twenty verses, and a twenty-first got added later (and is included here for some unknown reason—I keep […]

Award Honors: Eugie Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner- Best Short Story, Locus Award Winner- Best Short Story, Nebula Award Winner- Best Short Story, Stabby Award Finalist- Best Short Fiction, World Fantasy Award Finalist- Best Short Fiction

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Metal Like Blood in the Dark

by T. Kingfisher in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Six

Once upon a time there was a man who built two enormous machines, and he loved them very much. He called them Brother and Sister and programmed them with intelligences that woke and stretched and tested the limits of their metal bodies. When they did not like those limits, they altered them, nanite scurrying over […]

Award Honors: Hugo Award Winner- Best Short Story, WSFA Small Press Award Winner

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