EXCITING DAY, SPACE UNICORNS!

As you may remember, the phenomenal Subterranean Press will be releasing massive hardcover and prestige editions of  The Best of Uncanny in December 2019! The Best of Uncanny is a collection edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas bringing 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!

Last Friday, we received a box of Advance Reading Copies (ARCs)!!! THEY ARE SO GORGEOUS!!! Look at how beautiful that Tran Nguyen cover is!!!

The prestige edition SOLD OUT in 24 hours, but you can still pre-order the regular hardcover edition at the Subterranean Press website!

Once again, check out the spectacular Table of Contents!

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