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Four women - a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite - are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history.Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria. The Wi...

Nebula Award Finalist for Best NovellaNamed a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by Esquire, The New York Times, SLATE, The Washington Post, and ELLE“I am in love with Sofia Samatar's lyricism and the haunting beauty of her imagination. Her stories linger, like the memory of a sumptuous feast.”—N. K. JemisinA Most Anticipated in 2024 Pick for Goodreads | LitHub | Book Riot | She...

First collection from writer who is taking off.First novel won many prizes, second novel nominated for same. Stories finalists for many awards.Writer who crosses borders and catches interest of many differenent constituencies.Stories reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy StoriesIncludes a huge new story, “Fallow,” published here for the first time.Author has been a repeat guest on To the Best of Our Knowledge.Author has writ...

**Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismOpacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing**In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to Édouard Glissant to study ...

In the late 1800s, a group of German-speaking Mennonites fled Russia for Muslim Central Asia, to await Christ’s return.Over a century later, Sofia Samatar traces their gruelling journey across desert and mountains, and its improbable fruit: a small Christian settlement inside the Khanate of Khiva. Named ‘The White Mosque’ after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village—a community of peace, prophecy, music and martyrs—lasted fifty years.Within this curious tale, Sofia...

The November/December 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Isabel Yap, T. Kingfisher, Naomi Kritzer, Monica Valentinelli, and Cassandra Khaw. Reprinted fiction by Sofia Samatar, essays by Diana M. Pho, Steven H Silver, Sarah Goslee, and Nilah Magruder, poetry by Beth Cato, Hal Y. Zhang, Leah Bobet, and Sharon Hsu, and interviews with Isabel Yap and Monica Valentinelli by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by John Picacio, and an editorial by...

The November/December 2016 issue of the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli, Navah Wolfe, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Keidra Chaney, and Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), poetry by Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, and Sofia Samatar, interviews with Jennifer Marie Brissett and ...

The September/October 2016 issue of the Hugo Award Winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Tim Pratt, Sarah Pinsker, E. Lily Yu, and Ferrett Steinmetz, reprinted fiction by Sofia Samatar, essays by Mary Anne Mohanraj, Una McCormack, Aidan Moher, and Dominik Parisien, poetry by S. Qiouyi Lu, Ada Hoffmann, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with Carmen Maria Machado and Sarah Pinsker by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Kirbi Fagan, and an editoral by Lyn...

The first-ever issue of ArabLit Quarterly brings together short stories and poetry by exciting Arabic-language writers translated into English such as South Sudanese writer Stella Gaitano, Syrian short-story writer Zakariya Tamer, Palestinian poet Asmaa Azaizeh (translated into English, French, and Dutch), Lebanese poet Wadie Saadeh, Egyptian writer Muhammad Abdelnabi, Saudi writer Raja Alem, and others. Also: An open letter from novelist Sofia Samatar to deceased writer Tayeb Salih. A pla...

The March/April 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Sofia Samatar, Rosamund Hodge, Kat Howard, Maria Dahvana Headley, Sarah Pinsker, Emily Devenport, and Fran Wilde, classic fiction by Ellen Klages, essays by Ytasha L. Womack, Amal El-Mohtar, L.M. Myles, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by C.S.E. Cooney, Jennifer Crow, and M Sereno, interviews with Sofia Samatar, C.S.E. Cooney, and Ellen Klages, by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Carrie Ann Baade, and an editoral by Lyn...