The March/April 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Nghi Vo, Lavie Tidhar, Katherine Ewell, Annalee Newitz, Valerie Valdes, Parlei Rivière, and Amanda Helms. Essays by John Scalzi, G. Willow Wilson, Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, and Brandon O'Brien, poetry by Jennifer Mace, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Tiffany Morris, and Eva Papasoulioti, interviews with Nghi Vo and Valerie Valdes by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Antonio Javier Caparo, and ...

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary tank at a science fiction convention, a questionable academic paper published at a university of magic, living fossils awakened when the coal formed of them burns. The stories vary from humo...

The admin for a corporate retreat and a body-splitting alien team up to solve the murder of the company's president at a closed ski resort before their alien overlords inflict dire consequences for humanity's collective insubordination.Nia would probably rather be anywhere than a closed ski resort, supporting Hugh Callahan, the president of Crestone Learning, at a company retreat. As the only admin, she is responsible for pretty much everything, from making sure th...

The admin for a corporate retreat and a body-splitting alien team up to solve the murder of the company's president at a closed ski resort before their alien overlords inflict dire consequences for humanity's collective insubordination.Nia would probably rather be anywhere than a closed ski resort, supporting Hugh Callahan, the president of Crestone Learning, at a company retreat. As the only admin, she is responsible for pretty much everything, from making sure th...

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the first two years of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy, with a preference for the weird. Evangelist Roombas, cybernetic giraffes, psychosomatic hair syndrome, sentient ships who must maintain their human ecosystems inside them for their own health. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established.The stories in this anthology are:...

This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead, fantastical roommates apartment hunting in Brooklyn, oversea octopus explorers, sisterly love and rivalry in space, living breathing sweaters. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established.The stories in this anthology are:

The May/June 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Arkady Martine, Sarah Rees Brennan, Tia Tashiro, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Rati Mehotra, K.S. Walker, and John Wiswell. Essays by John Scalzi, Amy Berg, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Cara Liebowitz, poetry by Angela Liu, Ali Trotta, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, and Fran Wilde, interviews with Arkady Martine and K.S. Walker by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Zara Alfonso, and an editorial by Lynne M...

This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical school, time trains, magical idols in a magicless place. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established.Half of the stories i...

Every year, supporting members of WorldCon (one of the largest speculative fiction conventions on the planet) nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year for the prestigious Hugo Awards, the top six most popular of which make the final ballot in each category. Those works that do not make the final ballot are colloquially referred to as "the long list." This anthology series aims to show those amazing works a little more of the spotlight and, hopefully, share t...

This is the seventh annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 7 collects 24 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over ...

"A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species—be they human or animal, mythical or alien." — Publishers WeeklyIn this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You'll find bugs and buffalo, humans and aliens, creatures that have ...

This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 p...