Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016
10 best books like Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016 (Lynne M. Thomas): The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, A Taste of Honey, This Census-Taker, That Game We Played During the War, The City Born Great, Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
| Author | Victor LaValle |
| ISBN | 0765387867 |
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case...
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
| Author | Kij Johnson |
| ISBN | 0765386518 |
When a student from the Ulthar Women's College goes missing with her dreaming lover, Vellitt Boe journeys across the dreamlands to find a way to the waking world to bring her back. With a cat in tow, will Vellitt be able to find Clarie Jurat?
Ghouls, ghasts, and gugs, oh my! The Dream-Quest of Vellitt...
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
This pleasant novelette won the 2019 Hugo Award, and it’s free online. An imugi (a magical serpent that’s an earlier stage of a dragon, at least in this world’s mythology) wants nothing more than to become a full-fledged dragon and live in the heavens. Every thousand years the imugi, Byam, gets...
The day my sister ended the world, the sky opened up in rain for the first time in years, flooding the desert wash behind our house. The snakes drowned in their holes and the javelinas stampeded downstream, but the water overtook them, and the air filled with their screaming as they were swept away.
this...
Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods.
Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 1101967323 |
For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, and Karen Russell, This Census Taker is the poignant and uncanny new novella from award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville. After witnessing a profoundly traumatic event, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly...
| Author | Carrie Vaughn |
| ISBN | 0765389355 |
The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played...
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.
Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient...
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED's Queers Destroy Science...
Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.
EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore
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The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
An all-new anthology of cross-genre fairy tale retellings, featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.
Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.
Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries....
| Author | Nina Allan |
| ISBN | 0765390655 |
The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned mission to Mars ended in tragedy. Thirty years later, a second expedition is preparing to launch. As housekeeper of the hotel where two of the astronauts will give their final press statements, Emily finds the...
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.
Extra large Customer Appreciation issue!
TABLE OF CONTENTS...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
In this NOVELLA set in The World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in “Penric’s Demon”, Penric is a divine of the Bastard’s Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 115 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #115)
FICTION
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
“Balin” by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu
“The Bridge of Dreams” by Gregory Feeley
“The Cedar Grid” by Sara Saab
“Old Friends” by Garth Nix
“Winter's Wife” by Elizabeth Hand
NON-FICTION
“Silver...
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
| Author | Fran Wilde |
| ISBN | 0765389835 |
From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.
The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power...
Okay, so apparently this story was a Rabid Puppy Hugo finalist, which I didn’t know before picking it up, though I did start guessing pretty early on [if you don’t know who the Rabid Puppies are and how they’re related to the Hugo Awards, feel free to Google it – lots of smart and well-informed people...
