"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman who delves into the mystery of why and how her twin sister, a physicist, has been brain damaged in a lab accident in which two of her colleagues died.I wear yellow when I go to see my sister. There’s not a lot of yellow at the rehab facility; it’s all calm blues and neutrals. I like yellow—it looks good on me—but I wear it because Wanda is smart and she’s figured it out. She knows ...

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 ...

The March/April 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Maureen McHugh, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Shaoni C. White, Carlos Hernandez, Emma Törzs, Stephen Graham Jones, and Margaret Dunlap. Reprint fiction by Richard Butner. Essays by Jo Wu, Rebecca Romney, Elsa Sjunneson, and Sarah Gailey, poetry by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, Praise Osawaru, Mary Soon Lee, and Nnadi Samuel, interviews with Miyuki Jane Pinckard and Emma Törzs by Caroline M. Yoach...

An engineer who frequently travels for her job, suddenly finds herself in airports other than the one she arrived in…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Cleo is terrified! Ms. Emma told the class they would nominate a student for the District 6th Grade Math Competition. Well, the class voted and nominated Cleo!How could this have happened? Is this supposed to be a good thing? What will I do if Ms. Emma decides that I should do it? It’s just too much to even think about. What am I going to do?I used to be good at math, but now everyone will know that I’m not.With this worry, Cleo’s adventure of self-discovery begins ...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.Our September 2019 issue features "The Wreck of the Godspeed" by James Patrick Kelly, "Useless Things" by Maureen F. McHugh, and "The Memcordist" by Lavie Tidhar.

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.Our August 2018 issue features a novella by William Shunn ("Inclination"), a short story by Maureen McHugh ("After the Apocalypse"), and a short story by Indrapramit Das (&quo...

The public has a right to know that when they go to a therapist, they are almost certain to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, no matter how mild or normal their problems might be. It is unlikely that they will be told that a diagnosis will be written forever in their chart and that alarming consequences can result solely from having any psychiatric diagnosis. It would be disturbing enough if diagnosis was a thoroughly scientific process, but it is not, and its unscientific nature creates a...

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2020.Includes stories by:Charlie Jane AndersG. V. AndersonGregory Norman BossertJeremy Packert BurkeKatharine DuckettBrian EvensonCarolyn Ives GilmanMaria Dahvana HeadleyStephen Graham JonesJustin C. KeyNaomi KritzerRich LarsonYoon Ha LeeS. Qiouyi LuUsman ...