Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017

10 best books like Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 (Lynne M. Thomas): River of Teeth, The Black Tides of Heaven, If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, Apex Magazine Issue 99, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth, Fireside Magazine Issue 52, February 2018, Lightspeed Magazine, January 2018, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 145

River of Teeth
AuthorSarah Gailey
ISBN0765395223
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.

Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap...
The Black Tides of Heaven
AuthorJ.Y. Yang
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series. For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune

Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed...
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
AuthorZen Cho
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 Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
AuthorTina Connolly
ISBN1250296994
Nebula nominee for best novelette in 2018! 4.5 stars for this excellent Tor fantasy story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Saffron is one of the official food tasters for Duke Michal, the regent for an infant prince. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind...
AuthorJason Sizemore
Note: This review is just for the award-winning story “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience.” The ever-vigilant GR librarians merged its review space into this anthology.

All the stars! Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature. This story is free online here at Apex...
Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
AuthorJason Sizemore
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
...
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
AuthorDaryl Gregory
ISBN1250209455
When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--or something else entirely. How much time do we have left, and do we even understand what timescale to use? As a slow apocalypse blooms across the Earth, planets and plants, animals and microbes, all live...
Fireside Magazine Issue 52, February 2018
AuthorJulia Rios
https://firesidefiction.com/the-secre...
Nebula 2018, Short story

This one did not work as well for me, consisting as it did of nine little short-short stories about each of George Washington's teeth originating from various Negro people who were slaves. The slaves aren't necessarily...
Lightspeed Magazine, January 2018
AuthorJohn Joseph Adams
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,...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 145
AuthorNeil Clarke
ISBN1642360066
CONTENT

FICTION

"The Miracle Lambs of Minane" by Finbarr O’Reilly
"Sparrow" by Yilin Wang
"When We Were Starless" by Simone Heller
"The Facecrafter" by Anna Wu
"Thirty-Three Percent Joe" by Suzanne Palmer
"In Everlasting Wisdom" by Aliette de Bodard
"The...
AuthorNeil Clarke
FICTION
"The Ghost Ship Anastasia" by Rich Larson
"A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
"Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities" by Lettie Prell
"Interchange" by Gary Kloster
"Milla" by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini, translated by Rich Larson
"Events...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #225
AuthorScott H. Andrews
A Nebula and Hugo award nomined short story from the 2017/18 crop, free to read online here at Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Zee lives in a world inhabited entirely by doll-like wind-up people and animals. They have a mysterious, unseen maker...
The Martian Obelisk
AuthorLinda Nagata
ISBN1250162408
This is a 2017 Hugo nominated SF short story, free to read online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

In another tale that explores human choices in the face of apocalyptic events, Susannah Li-Langford is an eighty year old architect who has spent the last seventeen...
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