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Uncanny Magazine Issue 2

January/February 2015

2008

The January/February 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), Sam J. Miller, Amal El-Mohtar, Richard Bowes, and Sunny Moraine, classic fiction by Ann Leckie, essays by Jim C. Hines, Erika McGillivray, Michi Trota, and Keidra Chaney, poetry by Isabel Yap, Mari Ness, and Rose Lemberg, interviews with Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) and Ann Leckie, by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Contents: Fiction The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History by Sam J. Miller Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu Love Letters to Things Lost and Gained by Sunny Moraine Anyone With a Care for Their Image by Richard Bowes Pockets by Amal El–Mohtar The Nalendar by Ann Leckie Poetry After the Moon Princess Leaves by Isabel Yap After the Dance by Mari Ness archival testimony fragments / minersong by Rose Lemberg Editorials The Uncanny Valley by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Essays Thank You, Again, Kickstarter Backers! The Politics of Comfort by Jim C. Hines Age of the Geek, Baby by Michi Trota The Evolution of Nerd Rock by Keidra Chaney The Future’s Been Here Since 1939: Female Fans, Cosplay, and Conventions by Erica McGillivray Interviews Interview: Hao Jingfang by Deborah Stanish, translated by Ken Liu Interview: Ann Leckie by Deborah Stanish
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 3

March/April 2015

2015

The March/April 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Sofia Samatar, Rosamund Hodge, Kat Howard, Maria Dahvana Headley, Sarah Pinsker, Emily Devenport, and Fran Wilde, classic fiction by Ellen Klages, essays by Ytasha L. Womack, Amal El-Mohtar, L.M. Myles, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by C.S.E. Cooney, Jennifer Crow, and M Sereno, interviews with Sofia Samatar, C.S.E. Cooney, and Ellen Klages, by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Carrie Ann Baade, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
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Uncanny Magazine, Issue 10, May/June 2016

2016

The May/June 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Seanan McGuire, Kat Howard, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, and Haralambi Markov, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Foz Meadows, Tanya DePass, Sarah Monette, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by Beth Cato, M. Sereno, and Isabel Yap, interviews with Kat Howard and Alyssa Wong by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Galen Dara, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
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Uncanny Magazine, Issue 15, March/April 2017

2017

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.
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 16

May/June 2017

2017

The May/June 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Ursula Vernon, John Chu, Chinelo Onwualu, Naomi Kritzer, Hiromi Goto, and K.M. Szpara, reprinted fiction by Carlos Hernandez, essays by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Sarah Gailey, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Pinsker, Mimi Mondal, David J. Schwartz, Kelly McCullough, LaShawn M. Wanak, Yamile Saied Méndez, and DongWon Song, poetry by Roshani Chokshi, Sonya Taaffe, Betsy Aoki, and Theodora Goss, interviews with John Chu and Hiromi Goto by Julia Rios, a cover by Galen Dara, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
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Uncanny Magazine, Issue 23, July/August 2018

2018

COVER "The Uncanny T-rex" by Galen Dara EDITORIAL "The Uncanny Valley" by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas DINOSAURS! "The Uncanny Dinosaurs—Introduction" by Brooke Bolander, Sam J. Miller, Mari Ness, Nicasio Andres Reed, A. Merc Rustad & Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, K.M. Szpara, JY Yang, and Lynn M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas "Red Lizard Brigade" by Sam J. Miller "You Can Make a Dinosaur, but You Can't Help Me" by K.M. Szpara "Bones in the Rock" by R.K. Kalaw "By Claw, By Hand, By Silent Speech" by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry & A. Merc Rustad "The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" by Brooke Bolander "The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon, California, and the Unknown" by Brit E. B. Hvide "Expecting a Dinosaur" by Mari Ness "Give the People What They Want" by Alex Bledsoe "Nails in My Feet" by Mary Robinette Kowal "Everything Under Heaven" by Anya Ow NONFICTION "Island Futures" by Tobias S. Buckell "Joy and Applause" by Alasdair Stuart "The Seduction of Numbers, the Measures of Progress" by Marissa Lingen "Thirteen Reasons Who: A Timeline of a Question" by Tansy Rayner Roberts POETRY "Octavia's Letter to Marcus Anthony on the Discovery of His Faithlessness" by Cassandra Khaw "The One" by Brandon O'Brien "The Year We Got Rid of Our Ghosts" by Ali Trotta "FIND A HOT ASIAN GIRLFRIEND NEAR YOU" by Cynthia So INTERVIEWS K.M. Szpara interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim Anya Ow interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim
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Uncanny Magazine, Issue 24, September/October 2018

Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue

2018

COVER "And With the Lamps We Are Multitudes of Light" by Likhain EDITORIAL "The Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Manifesto" by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien FICTION "The House on the Moon" by William Alexander "Birthday Girl" by Rachel Swirsky "An Open Letter to the Family" by Jennifer Brozek "Heavy Lifting" by A. T. Greenblatt "The Frequency of Compassion" by A. Merc Rustad "The Stars Above" by Katharine Duckett "The Things I Miss the Most" by Nisi Shawl "Abigail Dreams of Weather" by Stu West "A House by the Sea" by P. H. Lee "Disconnect" by Fran Wilde "This Will Not Happen to You" by Marissa Lingen "By Degrees and Dilatory Time" by SL Huang "Listen" by Karin Tidbeck NONFICTION "Design a Spaceship" by Andi C. Buchanan "The Linguistics of Disability, or, Empathy > Sympathy" by Fran Wilde "The Body to Come: Afrofuturist Posthumanism and Disability" by Zaynab Shahar "The Expendable Disabled Heroes of Marvel's Infinity War" by John Wiswell "And the Dragon Was in the Skin" by A. J. Hackwith "Miles Vorkosigan and 'Excellent Life Choices': (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga" by Ira Gladkova "Give Me Heroism or Give Me Death" by Gemma Noon "My Genre Makes a Monster of Me" by teri.zin "The Future Is (Not) Disabled" by Marieke Nijkamp POETRY "Ctenophore Soul" by Rita Chen "core/debris/core" by Rose Lemberg "How to Fix a Dance When It Breaks" by Genevieve DeGuzman "the body argonautica" by Robin M. Eames "All the Stars Above the Sea" by Sarah Gailey "Convalescence" by Alicia Cole "hypothesis for apocalypse" by Khairini Barokka "Spatiotemporal Discontinuity" by Bogi Takács "You Wanted Me to Fly" by Julia Watts Belser INTERVIEWS Rachel Swirsky interviewed by Sandra Odell Marissa Lingen interviewed by Sandra Odell PERSONAL ESSAYS "The Stories We Find Ourselves in" by A. T. Greenblatt "The Horror and the Reality: Mental Illness Through the Lens of Horror" by V. Medina "We Are Not Daredevil. Except When We Aree Daredevil" by Michael Merriam "Nihil De Nobis, Sine Nobis" by Ace Ratcliff "From Rabbit Holes to Wormholes: KidLit Memories" by Alice Wong "Stories That Talk" by Keith A. Manuel "Once We Were Prophets" by Leigh Schmidt "Science Fiction as Community" by Kathryn Allan "Constructing the Future" by Derek Newman-Stile, PhD (ABD) "Disabled or Just Broken?" by Jaime O. Mayer "Now I Survive" by Jacqueline Bryk "Instant Demotion in Respectability" by Bogi Takács "Being Invisible" by Joyce Chng "We Are Not Your Backstories" by K. C. Alexander "Disabled Enough" by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry "Malfunctioning Space Stations" by Marissa Lingen "BFFs in the Apocalypse" by John Wiswell "Why I Limp" by Dilman Dila "The Only Thing Faster Than Tonight: Mr. Darkness" by Elise Matthesen "Homo Duplex" by Tochi Onyebuchi "A Dream to Shape My World" by Eli Wilkinson "To Boldly Go" by Cara Liebowitz "Move Like You're From Thra, My People" by Haddayr Copley-Woods "Everything is True: A Non-Neurotypical Experience with Fiction" by Ada Hoffmann "Unlocking the Garret" by Rachel Swirsky "The Stories We Tell and the Amazon Experiment" by Day Al-Mohamed "Science Fiction Saved My Life" by Laurel Amberdine "After the Last Chapter" by Andi C. Buchanan "Dancing in Iron Shoes" by Nicolette Barischoff
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 29

July/August 2019

2019

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. “The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” by Sarah Pinsker “Big Box” by Greg van Eekhout “Compassionate Simulation” by Rachel Swirsky and P. H. Lee “On the Impurity of Dragon-kind” by Marie Brennan “How the Trick Is Done” by A.C. Wise “The Migration Suite: A Study in C Sharp Minor” by Maurice Broaddus “A Champion of Nigh-Space” by Tim Pratt “Was Trials of Mana Worth Growing Up For?” by Aidan Moher “The Gang’s All Here: Writing Lessons from The Good Place” by Tansy Rayner Roberts “The Better Place” by Karlyn Ruth Meyer “Beware the Lifeboat” by Marissa Lingen “Sir Elsa of Tortall, Knight of the Realm” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry “capturing the mood” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires “Sing” by Alexandra Seidel “If Love Is Real, So Are Fairies” by Cynthia So “Buruburu” by Betsy Aoki

Authors

Greg Van Eekhout
Greg Van Eekhout
Author · 16 books
Greg van Eekhout writes books. Some are for kids, some are for adults. He lives in San Diego.
Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan
Author · 43 books

Marie Brennan a.k.a. M.A. Carrick Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to Turning Darkness Into Light, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. As half of M.A. Carrick, she is also the author of The Mask of Mirrors, first in the Rook and Rose trilogy. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon.

Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky
Author · 16 books
Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and is a graduate of Clarion West. Her work has been short-listed for the Nebula, the Hugo, and the Sturgeon Award, and placed second in 2010's Million Writers Award. In addition to numerous publications in magazines and anthologies, Swirsky is the author of three short stories published as e-books, "Eros, Philia, Agape," "The Memory of Wind," and "The Monster's Million Faces." Her fiction and poetry has been collected in THROUGH THE DROWSY DARK (Aqueduct Press, 2010). A second collection, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, is forthcoming from Subterranean Press.
A.C. Wise
A.C. Wise
Author · 14 books
A.C. Wise's fiction has appeared in publications such as Uncanny, Shimmer, and Tor.com, among other places. She had two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella published by Broken Eye Books. Her debut novel, Wendy, Darling, is out from Titan Books n June 2021, and a new collection, The Ghost Sequences, is forthcoming from Undertow Books in October 2021. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as being a two-time Nebula finalist, a two-time Sunburst finalist, an Aurora finalist, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. In addition to her fiction, she contributes review columns to the Book Smugglers and Apex Magazine, and has been a finalist for the Ignyte Award in the Critics category.
Lynne M. Thomas
Lynne M. Thomas
Author · 1 books

In my day job, I am the Head of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Rare Book and Manuscript Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the largest public university rare book collections in the country. I used to manage pop culture special collections that include the papers of over 70 SF/F authors at Northern Illinois University. I also teach a Special Collections course as an adjunct in the iSchool at Illinois, and used to do so at SJSU. I'm an eleven-time Hugo Award winner, the Co-Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Uncanny Magazine with my husband Michael Damian Thomas. The former Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine (2011-2013), I co-edited the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords, Whedonistas, and Chicks Dig Comics. I moderated the Hugo-Award winning SF Squeecast and contribute to the Verity! Podcast. You can learn more about my shenanigans at lynnemthomas.com.

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