Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-Six

Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-Six! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on January 2, 2024. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on January 2 and half on February 6.

Featuring all-new short fiction by Mary Robinette Kowal, Jordan Taylor, Jana Bianchi, Natalia Theodoridou, Ana Hurtado, Cheri Kamei, and Angela Liu; nonfiction by John Scalzi, Alex Jennings, Cecilia Tan, and Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne; poetry by Ali Trotta, Ai Jiang, C. S. E. Cooney, and Sodïq Oyèkànmí; interviews with Jordan Taylor and Natalia Theodoridou by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Galen Dara’s Resurrecting Venus as the cover.

All that plus two podcasts!

Episode 56A (January 2): Editors’ Introduction, “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal, as read by Erika Ensign, “We Drink Lava” by Ai Jiang, as read by Matt Peters, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Mary Robinette Kowal.

Episode 56B (February 6): Editors’ Introduction, “La mandíbula del río” by Ana Hurtado, as read by Matt Peters, “fowlskin” by C. S. E. Cooney, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Ana Hurtado.

About Our Cover Artist: Galen Dara

Galen Dara has created art for TOR, DAW Books, HarperCollins Publishing, Simon and Schuster, Subterranean Press, Scientific American magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons Magazine, Wizards Of The Coast, and Fantasy Flight Games. She’s won the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy award, the Spectrum Award, and the Chesley Award (and has been nominated several times for the Locus Award). She’s on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @galendara.  www.galendara.com

 

In The Issue