Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty
Welcome to the double-sized Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on January 3, 2023. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on January 3 and half on February 7.
Featuring all-new short fiction by Ken Liu and Caroline M. Yoachim, Mary Robinette Kowal, P. Djèlí Clark, A. T. Greenblatt, A.M. Dellamonica, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Sarah Pinsker, E. Lily Yu, Marie Brennan, Christopher Caldwell, John Wiswell, and Maureen McHugh; nonfiction by Elsa Sjunneson, John Picacio, Annalee Newitz, A. T. Greenblatt, Diana M. Pho, and Javier Grillo-Marxuach; poetry by Neil Gaiman, Terese Mason Pierre, Sonya Taaffe, Betsy Aoki, Theodora Goss, Ali Trotta, Abu Bakr Sadiq, Elizabeth Bear, and Brandon O’Brien; interviews with Ken Liu and Caroline M. Yoachim by Tina Connolly, and Eugenia Triantafyllou, E. Lily Yu, and Christopher Caldwell by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Galen Dara’s Sharps and Soft as the cover.
All that plus four podcasts!
Episode 50A (January 3): Editors’ Introduction, “Cold Relations” by Mary Robinette Kowal, as read by Erika Ensign, “Love Poem: Phoenix” by Terese Mason Pierre, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Mary Robinette Kowal.
Episode 50B (January 17): Editors’ Introduction, “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark, as read by Matt Peters, “Kannazuki, or the Godless Month” by Betsy Aoki, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing P. Djèlí Clark.
Episode 50C (February 7): Editors’ Introduction, “One Man’s Treasure” by Sarah Pinsker, as read by Matt Peters, “The Witch Makes Her To-Do List” by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Sarah Pinsker.
Episode 50D (February 21): Editors’ Introduction, “Bad Doors” by John Wiswell, as read by Erika Ensign, “Driving Downtown” by Abu Bakr Sadiq, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing John Wiswell.
About Our Cover Artist: Galen Dara
Galen Dara has created art for TOR, DAW Books, HarperCollins Publishing, Simon and Schuster, Subterranean Press, Scientific American magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons Magazine, Wizards Of The Coast, and Fantasy Flight Games. She’s won the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy award, the Spectrum Award, and the Chesley Award (and has been nominated several times for the Locus Award). She’s on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @galendara. www.galendara.com