Short Stories/Novellas

The March/April 2017 issue of Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry by Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O’Brien, Bogi Takács, and Lisa M. Bradley, interviews with Stephen Graham Jones and Sarah Pinsker by Julia Rios, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Julia Rios and Michi Trota, each issue includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

Cover art by Cynthia Sheppard , illustrating the story “Wind Will Rove" by Sarah Pinsker . This story was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. Other stories in this issue: “Riding the Blue Line with Jack Kerouac” by Sandra McDonald ”Universe Box” by Michael Swanwick ”Dead Men in Central City” by Carrie Vaughn ”Arriving at Terminal: XI's Story” by James E. Gunn ”The Ganymede Gambit: Jan's Story” by James E. Gunn ”Your Clone Finds Her Stray” by Robert Frazier ”Zigeuner” by Harry Turtledove ”The Fourth Hill” by Dennis E. Staples ”The Cabinet” by William Preston ”An Incident in the Literary Life of Nathan Arkwright” by Allen Steele ”Squamous and Eldritch Get a Yard Sale Bargain” by Tim McDaniel ”Grand Theft Spacecraft” by R. Garcia y Robertson ”Disturbance in the Produce Aisle” by Kit Reed ”Books of the Risen Sea” by Suzanne Palmer plus poetry by John Richard Trtek, Bethany Powell, Stuart Greenhouse, Jane Yolen, Robert Borski, Leslie J. Anderson Features “Thirty-First Annual Readers' Awards' Results” (editorial) by Sheila Williams; “The Last Hittite” (Reflections) by Robert Silverberg; “Remembering Bertie” (On the Net) by James Patrick Kelly; “On Books” (reviews) by Norman Spinrad. September-October 2017. Editor: Sheila Williams

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. Our cover art this month is by Alan Bao, illustrating a new science fiction short by Adam-Troy Castro ("The Streets of Babel"). Susan Jane Bigelow gives us our other piece of original SF ("The Eyes of the Flood"). We also have with SF reprints by Catherynne M. Valente ("Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy") and James Patrick Kelly ("Someday"). Our fantasy originals are from José Pablo Iriarte ("The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Birth") and Sarah Pinsker ("The Court Magician"). Our fantasy reprints are by Joanna Ruocco ("Auburn") and Roger Zelazny ("Divine Madness"). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns, and an interview with author Fonda Lee. For our ebook readers, our exclusive novella is by Will McIntosh ("A Thousand Nights Till Morning"). And of course we have a book excerpt just for our ebook readers, too--it's a snippet from THE NIGHT MARKET by Jonathan Moore.

The July/August 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Rachel Swirsky and P. H. Lee, Marie Brennan, A.C. Wise, and Maurice Broaddus. Reprinted fiction by Tim Pratt, essays by Aidan Moher, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Karlyn Ruth Meyer, Marissa Lingen, and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, poetry by D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Alexandra Seidel, Cynthia So, and Betsy Aoki, interviews with Greg Van Eekhout and Maurice Broaddus by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

A dark fantasy Tor.com Original short story from award-winning author Sarah Pinsker, "Two Truths and a Lie" Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the strange public broadcast TV show with the unsettling host she and all the neighborhood kids appeared on years ago. But he does remember. And so does her mom. So why doesn’t Stella? The more she investigates the show and the grip it has on her hometown, the eerier the mystery grows. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Better Way of Saying by Sarah Pinsker is a fantasy Tor.com Original short story about a young man, who in 1915, is hired to shout the words on title cards for silent movies. But his aspirations to edit some of the worst dialog leads him in a weird direction that changes his life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The January/February 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine . Our landmark Issue 50, a double sized issue! Featuring new 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. Essays 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 Trota, Abu Bakr Sadiq, Elizabeth Bear, and Brandon O'Brien, interviews with Ken Liu and Caroline M. Yoachim by Tina Connolly; interviews with Eugenia Triantafyllou, E. Lily Yu, and Christopher Caldwell by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Galen Dara, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison. About Uncanny Magazine Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, & 2022 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Meg Elison, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.