“One of the best collections I’ve ever read. Every single story is a standout.”—Roxane GayWINNER OF THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Refinery29 • BookRiot“Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

The May/June 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Caroline M. Yoachim, Angela Liu, Anjali Sachdeva, Aliette de Bodard, Delilah S. Dawson, DaVaun Sanders, and Ewen Ma; essays by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Alex Jennings, Tina Connolly, and J.R. Dawson; poetry by Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom, Margaret Rhee, Praise Osawaru, and Gospel Chinedu; interviews with Angela Liu and DaVaun Sanders by Caroline M. Yoachim; a cover by Grace P. Fong, and an editorial b...

"Arbitrium" is a post-apocalyptic Tor.com Original short story from Anjali Sachdeva, author of All the Names They Used for God.Vashti is a pathogenic diplomat—an ambassador to the world of viruses, whom she communicates with through a machine that can translate their chemical signals into images, tastes, smells, sounds, and memories. She begins a negotiation between the US Government and a diplomatic contingent from Arenavirus, a ...

The March/April 2026 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Angela Liu, Anjali Sachdeva, Stephen Graham Jones, Theodora Goss, Sunwoo Jeong, and John Wiswell; essays by Samantha Mills, Jim C. Hines, Jane Espenson, and Ai Jiang; poetry by Izzy Wasserstein, Eva Papasoulioti, Marissa Lingen, and Thomas Mixon; interviews with Anjali Sachdeva and Sunwoo Jeong by Caroline M. Yoachim; Broci’s Kuolonuni as the cover; and an editorial by Michael Damian Thoma...

For fans of Dave Eggers and Kelly Link, an exhilarating collection of stories that explores the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives—from censorship and terrorism to technology and online dating.Spanning centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters, these alluringly strange stories are united by each character’s struggle with fate. In a secret, subterranean world beneath the prairie of the Old West, a homesteader risks her life in searc...

The July/August 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by John Chu, Catherynne M. Valente, Shveta Thakrar, Emma Törzs, Daniel H. Wilson, Jordan Taylor, and A. W. Prihandita; essays by J. R. Dawson, Brandon O’Brien, Charlie Jane Anders, and Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne; poetry by Lora Gray, Shankar Narayan, Avra Margariti, and Prosper C. Ìféányí; interviews with Catherynne M. Valente and Daniel H. Wilson by Caroline M. Yoachim; N...

The March/April 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Samantha Mills, G. Willow Wilson, Wen-yi Lee, Charlie Jane Anders, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Stephanie Malia Morris, Kirsty Logan and J.L. Akagi. Essays by John Wiswell, Angela Liu, Amanda-Rae Prescott, and J.R. Dawson, poetry by Rafiat Lamidi, Ai Jiang, Abdulrazaq Salihu, and Lesley Hart Gunn, interviews with Wen-yi Lee and Eugenia Triantafyllou by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Galen Dara, ...

The September/October 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, M. M. Olivas, AnaMaria Curtis, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Juliet Kahn, Tim Pratt, and Hannah Yang; essays by Senaa Ahmad, LaShawn M. Wanak, Del Sandeen, and Theo Kane; poetry by Angela Liu, Dr. Taylor Byas, Jasmine Leng, and Susan L. Lin; interviews with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Juliet Kahn by Caroline M. Yoachim; Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Listen To Me And I’ll T...

In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been working in Japan for the last five years, is the caretaker for Sayoko Itou, an intensely private woman about to turn 100 years old. Angelica is a dedicated nurse, working night and day to keep her paperwork in order, obey the strict labor laws for foreign nationals, study for her ongoing proficiency exams, and most of all keep her demanding client happy. But one day Sayoko receives a present from her son: a cutting-edge robot careta...

The January/February 2025 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Scott Lynch, J.R. Dawson, Tia Tashiro, Tade Thompson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rati Mehrotra, and AnaMaria Curtis. Essays by Nicholas Whyte, Ai Jiang, A.T. Greenblatt, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Kaliee Pedersen, Mari Ness, Shankar Narayan, and E. N. Díaz, interviews with Scott Lynch and Rati Mehotra by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Maxine Vee, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thom...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro isn't exactly a domestic goddess-unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband's daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband's not on it). Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune in the domestic arts, including cooking, cleaning, and putting on Spanx while sweaty (which should technically qualify as an Olympic sport). Housebr...

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a “magnificent” epic based on the early life of Genghis Khan (New York Herald Tribune)This sweeping saga captures life in the Far East during the Middle Ages and dramatizes the events that transformed a Mongol tribesman named Temujin into the man who would conquer Asia and be known to the world for centuries to come as Genghis Khan.Raised by an indomitable woman and educated by his outcast uncle...