Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-Three
Welcome to Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifty-Three! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on July 4, 2023. The free online content will be released in two stages—half on July 4 and half on Aug 1.
Featuring all-new short fiction by Daniel H. Wilson, R.S.A. Garcia, Steph Kwiatkowski, Lee Mandelo, Natalia Theodoridou, Lavie Tidhar, and Vajra Chandrasekera; reprint fiction by C. L. Polk; nonfiction by Del Sandeen, Lizbeth Myles, Suzanne Walker, and Natania Barron; poetry by Beth Cato, Emily Jiang, Sodïq Oyèkànmí, and Valerie Valdes; interviews with R.S.A. Garcia and Lee Mandelo by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Elaine Ho’s A Rest from the Hunt as the cover.
All that plus two podcasts!
Episode 53A (July 4): Editors’ Introduction, “SuperMAX” by Daniel H. Wilson, as read by Matt Peters, “As Does the Crow” by Beth Cato, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Daniel H. Wilson.
Episode 53B (August 1): Editors’ Introduction, “Love at the Event Horizon” by Natalia Theodoridou, as read by Matt Peters, “Eroticide” by Valerie Valdes, as read by Erika Ensign, and Lynne M. Thomas interviewing Natalia Theodoridou.
About Our Cover Artist: Elaine Ho
Elaine is an Asian-American illustrator and art director. Her work is drawn to themes of the broken and the beautiful, and has been featured in Spectrum, Infected by Art and American Illustration. She has created book covers and endpaper work for Illumicrate, Diabolical Plots, Uncanny Magazine, and Strange Horizons, and is currently the art director for khōréō, an award-winning speculative literary magazine focused on the diaspora experience.