Today’s software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow?Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias, where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity.Delve into the minds of robot painters, AI poets, drone forgers, and electronic theater curators. These and other possible futures ...

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find:* Space orc diplomats* Hapless necromancers* Gamification of everything* Plumbing problems at an evil wizard’s castle* Get-rich-quick schemes gone wrong* Seussian cyberpunkNo AI! Written by organic, locally-sourced human authors.Th...

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find:* Overworked fairies distributing swords.* Alien yeti slackers* Elf bakers* Absconded books* Superhero dance battles* Matchmakers ... in spaaace!This anthology contains the following stories:"The Hero of Small Things" by Amanda Sav...

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...

Stories from Austria, China, Germany, USA, and Russia."Old People's Folly" features a cantankerous, disabled old lady protagonist living a difficult life many generations after the collapse of modern society. When she meets a young and idealistic woman from before the collapse, whose personality has been digitally stored, there's both a culture clash and a generational divide. Can the two find something in common in order to help a teenager in need?"The Life Cycle of a Cybe...

A lot has happened since Finding Serenity. We learned River's secret; Mal took on the Alliance. Our favorite crew became Big Damn Heroes. And the Browncoats proved that hard work, passion and a little fan coordination can do the impossible. Serenity Found takes the contents of Finding Serenity even further, exploring not just the show but the events of the film as well, to create an anthology that's even more thought-provoking, fascinating and far-thinking than its predecessor.* Ac...

Though Joss Whedon's television show Dollhouse ended in January 2010 after its second season, its small but devoted cult following is still reeling from not only from its mind-blowing plot twists but also its challenging, dystopic look at the ethics of new technology.Inside Joss' Dollhouse is a fitting tribute to this complex, engaging show. The anthology's 18 sometimes funny, always insightful pieces cover Dollhouse from anticipated start to explosive finish. Drawn from a...

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR* Cranky Goblin Cooks* Unscrupulous Chemists* Lecherous Space Pirates* Disagreeable Alien Symbiotes* Soul-Searching Snot ElementalsThe Unidentified Funny Objects series serves an annual dose of funny. zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! Our sixth volume features a Mad Amos story by Alan Dean Foster, a Harry the Book tale by Mike Resnick, and an Alexande...

Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association, and Dragon Awards. Some have been writing for decades, others are at the beginning ...

Coffee plays a major role in each of the stories collected in this book. Brewed from such fine ingredients as magic, wonder, humor, and romance, -Coffee- serves up a unique blend of the fantastic you won't be able to put down.

The third and final book of the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague.Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. They were absolutely not trained to fight an interplanetary war with the xenocidal Prodryans or to make first contact with the Jynx, a race who might not be as primitive as they seem. But if there’s one lesson Mops and her crew have learned,...

“How come goblins never live happily ever after?”–Jig DragonslayerAll Jig wants to do was worship his forgotten god, hang out with his pet fire-spider, and heal the seemingly-endless parade of goblin injuries.But the goblin chief Kralk sees Jig as a threat to her power. So when an ogre comes seeking Jig Dragonslayer’s help against an unknown enemy, Kralk seizes the chance to get rid of Jig for good.With a large, exceptionally dim-witted goblin warrio...